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SUMMARY:Virtual Conference: Echoes of Fascism: The Radical Right in the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Students at the University of Vienna saluting in a torchlight parade together with the Rector\, Hans Übersberger\, in 1931. ÖNB Bildarchiv. H 780 B \nA one-day conference organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The European Fascist Movements 1918-1941 project\, the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right and HOPE not hate. \nThis academic conference is part of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Movements in Interwar Europe exhibition and will explore the Radical Right in the twenty-first century. View the full conference schedule here. \nAlthough fascism was defeated militarily at the end of the Second World War\, neo-fascist and radical right movements have continued to spread racial hatred and to challenge liberal democracies ever since. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen right-wing political parties\, white supremacist scenes\, extremist organisations\, and governments promoting ultranationalist chauvinism in various forms. By interrogating the frames\, repertoires\, mobilisation strategies\, and activities of the radical right\, this conference seeks to understand how the radical right functions in today’s world so that we might be better equipped to combat it in the future. \nVirtual Conference Schedule: \nPlease note that this programme does not include all aspects of the conference. Some elements involve conference participants only and will not be live-streamed. \nYou will receive individual zoom links to join the conference on Tuesday 18 November via email\, please check junk folders. \n11.30am: Panel discussion: Fighting Fascism Today  \nChair: Matthew Feldman (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \nSpeakers: Joe Mulhall (HOPE not hate); Dave Rich (Community Security Trust); Bethan Johnson (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \n1.30-2.45pm: Keynote lecture (online): Ruth Wodak\, Lancaster University/ the University of Vienna\, Collective amnesia: Normalizing a rhetoric of exclusion \nChair: Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library \n5.30-7pm: Keynote public lecture: Julie Gottlieb\, University of Sheffield\, Memory Boom and Bust: Radical Right Women and the Politics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Britain  \nChair: Roland Clark\, University of Liverpool
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-conference-echoes-of-fascism-the-radical-right-in-the-twenty-first-century/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland\, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to partner with UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to launch Michael Fleming’s new book\, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nIn the midst of the Second World War\, the Allies acknowledged Germany’s ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission\, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. The book shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and\, along with others\, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later\, from the summer of 1945\, the Polish Government in Warsaw\, the book provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War. \nAbout the speakers: \nMichael Fleming is a historian at The Polish University Abroad\, London and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include Communism\, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland\, 1944-1950 (2010)\, Auschwitz\, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and (as editor) Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies and the Aquila Polonica Prize. \nDan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in the Politics Department of SOAS University of London and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row\, in London. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler. His previous books include America Hitler and the UN\, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Professor Weiss) and The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN\, War Crimes and on Disarmament. \nJulia Eichenberg is a senior lecturer at the University of Bayreuth\, and a Freigeist Fellow and principal investigator of the research project “The London Moment” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2023). In 2008\, she was awarded a PhD in Modern History by the University of Tübingen for her research on Polish First World War veterans. Since then\, she has held fellowships and lectured in Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin\, University College Dublin and Humboldt University Berlin. She has published on aspects of war\, welfare\, violence\, peace\, and international collaboration. Her next book engages with the collaboration of European governments-in-exile in London during the Second World War. \nChaired by: \nAntony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972)\, The Little Dictators (1975)\, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia\, volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-poland-the-united-nations-war-crimes-commission-and-the-search-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: A ‘New Europe’ without Jews. Antisemitism and Fascism in Latvia 1932-1945
DESCRIPTION:Poster of the fascist organisation “Pērkonkrusts” (Thunder Cross)\, 1932/1933. Courtesy of Nacionālā enciklopēdija\, LNB. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. This event is virtual\, but it is possible that a limited number of in-person seats will become available closer to the event. \nThe Republic of Latvia was inaugurated in 1918 as a liberal democracy\, granting general suffrage and equal rights to all citizens\, and cultural autonomy to minorities. Despite these achievements\, anti-democratic and racist movements emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. In this talk\, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context. She will reveal expressions of anti-Jewish activities and discuss how the fascist organisations in Latvia fostered the fragmentation of civil society in the interwar period. Understanding of the nature of their antisemitism enables us to analyse the behaviour of the Latvian fascists during the Second World War when their reaction to the German occupation ranged from acts that can be termed collaboration to those that resemble resistance. \nAbout the speaker: \nPaula Oppermann is a PhD candidate in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the Latvian Fascist Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) Organisation\, how it developed its ultra-nationalist\, antisemitic ideology in the 1930s\, and how this influenced its members’ actions during the Second World War. Paula previously studied History and Baltic Languages at the University of Greifswald and completed an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests are the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia\, and she has published articles on the history of the Rumbula and Salaspils Memorials. She has worked as a research assistant at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Documentation Centre curating a special exhibition entitled Mass Shootings. The Holocaust Between the Baltic and the Black Sea 1941–1944\, and as a sub-editor for the online project Pogrom: November 1938. Testimonies from Kristallnacht\, developed by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-a-new-europe-without-jews-antisemitism-and-fascism-in-latvia-1932-1945/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20211201T105457Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: Between fanaticism and mediocrity: Swedish and Dutch fascism\, 1923-1940
DESCRIPTION:NSB leader Anton Mussert together with party members at an annual congress in The Hague\, 1935. The image is out of copyright\, originally produced by the NSB Photo Service\, which was criminalised and dissolved in 1945. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series. \nThe Netherlands and Sweden were better known in the interwar period for the stability of their democracies and their relative liberalism than fascism. Yet there too fascist parties emerged: tens of thousands of people joined the Dutch National Socialist Movement and the Swedish National Socialist Workers Party among many others and fought for a new fascist state. They did so fortunately without ultimate success – marginalised into oblivion\, these groups can appear as only mediocre imitations of more successful models. This begs the question of why so many thousands of people not only joined\, but persisted in a fanatical devotion to their cause\, sometimes for decades far beyond any hope for victory. This lecture will explore the rise and decline of fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands\, explain their appeal to ordinary fascists in spite of unfavourable conditions and the mediocrity of the objects of their devotion. \nDr Nathaniël Kunkeler is a historian of fascism and the far-right in interwar Europe\, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Right-Wing Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. They did their PhD at Cambridge University on the subject of Swedish and Dutch fascism\, which has now been published as a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic: Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability\, 1931-40. They are currently working on a research project about military volunteers and the transnational counter-revolutionary Right in north-western Europe 1917-40. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-talk-between-fanaticism-and-mediocrity-swedish-and-dutch-fascism-1923-1940/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220105T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220105T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Virtual Symposium: New initiatives and debates around Holocaust memorialisation
DESCRIPTION:United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) welfare worker\, Miss Eileen Wermig\, leads a group of young children at the UNRRA Weisbaden Camp\, where some 5\,000 children were housed\, pictured after the Second World War. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn organisation with Imperial War Museum Institute\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London and the University of Wolverhampton. \nTo mark the postponed seventh international multidisciplinary conference\, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour\, the conference organisers are pleased to announce a virtual symposium that will explore new international debates in Holocaust memorialisation. In the spirit of the conference\, we hope that the debate and discussion generated by the panel presentations will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines engaged in research on themes of the ‘life after’ and memory\, as well as the interested public. We are looking forward to hosting the next Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference in January 2023. \nVirtual Event Programme: (All times GMT) \n6.00pm            Welcome and introduction by Suzanne Bardgett\, Head of Research and Academic Partnerships\, Imperial War Museum Institute \n6.05pm            New museum initiatives in the UK and the Netherlands \nChair: Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director\, Wiener Library \nJames Bulgin\, Content Lead on the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums London \nEmile Schrijver\, Director\, Jewish Historical Museum\, Amsterdam \nDiscussion/ Questions \n6.45pm            Recent debates on Holocaust memorialisation in Germany and Poland \nChair: Professor David Feldman\, Director\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism \nProfessor Jennifer Evans\, Professor of History at Carleton University\, to reflect on developments and debates in Germany \nProfessor Dariusz Stola\, Professor of History\, Institute of Political Studies\, Polish Academy of Sciences\, and former Director of POLIN\, museum of the history of Polish Jews\, Warsaw\, to reflect on developments and debates in Poland \nDiscussion/Questions \n7.25                 Concluding words from Professor Dieter Steinert\, Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies\, University of Wolverhampton \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-virtual-symposium-new-initiatives-and-debates-around-holocaust-memorialisation/
CATEGORIES:Symposiums
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211213T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211213T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion: Antisemitism\, Race and Violence in the Russian Empire
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nFuneral held for desecrated Torah scrolls following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903\, in which 49 Jews were murdered and hundreds of women raped (public domain). Kishinev was then in the Russian Empire. \nDiscussions about the mass violence and racism perpetrated by European empires during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries do not always consider the situation in the Russian Empire\, where genocide was committed against Muslim Circassians from the 1830s-1860s\, and where the Jewish population suffered repeated waves of state-orchestrated discrimination\, persecution and violence. This event will consider these events and the significance of racism and antisemitism in Imperial Russia. It will examine the legacies of these acts of ethnic mass violence during the Russian Civil War and in Nazi Germany. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Polly Zavadivker is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies and the Director of the Jewish Studies programme at the University of Delaware. She is the author of A Nation of Refugees: World War I and Russia’s Jews (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming) and 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front (2016). \nDr Brendan McGeever is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Birkbeck\, University of London where he is also a Research Associate at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of the prize-winning Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2019). \nDr Andrew Sloin is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sandra K. Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College\, City University of New York. He has expertise in Russian\, East European\, Soviet\, and Jewish history. He is the author of The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy\, Race\, and Bolshevik Power (2017). \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-discussion-antisemitism-race-and-violence-in-the-russian-empire/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Colonialism and Genocide,Racism and Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211207T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: The Radicalising Impact of the Fascist Past: Emotive Memories of Nazism and Fascism in Contemporary Extreme Right Politics
DESCRIPTION:As part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series\, Professor Paul Jackson will explore how the extreme right today\, in Britain and internationally\, often takes a deep interest in the fascist past. \nFront page of the fascist newspaper Action\, the newspaper of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists\, 9 July 1936. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nWhile the more moderate populist radical right has tried to disconnect itself from the legacies of fascism\, many smaller\, more overtly extremist groups in Britain\, Europe and elsewhere have sought to reconnect their activism with memories of the fascist past. This talk will interrogate fascination with aspects of the fascist past and consider how they help such groups today develop a culture that appeals to younger men especially through themes of hypermasculinity and underpin ongoing support through a politics of emotions. \nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Paul Jackson is a specialist in the contemporary history of British fascism. His books include Pride in Prejudice: Understanding Britain’s Extreme Right (MUP\, 2022). He is also the academic curator of the Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton\, a major collection of material linked to the recent history of the extreme right. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-the-radicalising-impact-of-the-fascist-past-emotive-memories-of-nazism-and-fascism-in-contemporary-extreme-right-politics/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jean Améry and Suicide: At Existentialism’s Limits
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe essayist\, novelist\, philosopher\, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s theory of radical\, ontological freedom provided a lifeline for Améry in the aftermath of his experience of exile\, torture\, and imprisonment in the concentration camps. Existentialism gifted Améry with the conceptual tools necessary to create himself anew. However\, Améry’s appropriation of this philosophy came up against limits in the experience of aging\, which\, in Améry’s account\, saw a past marked by suffering\, failure and regret solidify\, just as the future’s horizon began to recede. Rather than freedom\, it is a limitation that would come to define the human experience for Améry. But this gradual erosion of freedom’s potential would be interrupted by what Améry presents as the highest form of autonomy: the act of suicide. This presentation will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism. \nAbout the speaker: \nJohn Spiers is a PhD candidate in Literature\, Theology and the Arts in the Theology & Religious Studies department at the University of Glasgow. He holds a master’s degree from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. His research focuses on existential thought and he has written on Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Dostoevsky\, Shestov\, Fondane\, Beauvoir\, Sartre\, and Camus. His doctoral thesis engages with existential themes in Jean Améry’s essayistic writings. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jean-amery-and-suicide-at-existentialisms-limitspart-of-the-wiener-holocaust-librarys-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-doctoral-seminar-series/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211201T200000
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: Virtual Panel: The Problems of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for 25 October but has been rescheduled to 1 December due to illness. \nGenocide is not only a problem of mass death but also of how\, as a relatively new idea and law\, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack\, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law\, atop which sits genocide as the ‘crime of crimes’\, blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death\, like bombing cities\, and the ‘collateral damage’ of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide\, then\, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. The Problems of Genocide contends that this violence is the consequence of ‘permanent security’ imperatives: the striving of states\, and armed groups seeking to found states\, to make themselves invulnerable to threats. \nAbout the speakers: \nDirk Moses is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina. He is a historian genocide\, memory\, and intellectual history. His first book\, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007)\, investigated the West German debates about renewing democracy in the wake of the failure of the Weimar Republic and the Holocaust. He has edited many anthologies on genocide\, including\, most recently\, Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War\, 1967–1970 (2018)\, The Holocaust in Greece (2018)\, and Decolonization\, Self-Determination\, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics  (2020). His investigation of the origins and function of the genocide concept appears in his second monograph\, The Problems of Genocide (2021). Dirk is working on two book projects. One on what he calls the Diplomacy of Genocide and another called Genocide and the Terror of History. In his spare time\, he edits the Journal of Genocide Research. \nChristine Achinger is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her current research investigates the interrelation of constructions of Jewishness\, race and gender as responses to the development of capitalist modernity during the long 19th century. Among her publications are Gespaltene Moderne. Gustav Freytags Soll und Haben – Nation\, Geschlecht und Judenbild (2007) and Antisemitism\, Racism and Islamophobia: Distorted Faces of Modernity (ed. w. Robert Fine\, 2015). \nChaired by: \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, will be published in September 2022. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-problems-of-genocide/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T201500
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman: Commemorating Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online showing of the play The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman and a Q&A with the director and co-author\, Dr Erika Hughes. \nA photograph taken of the play\, The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProudly co-hosted by the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association and the Library in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the first transport to Theresienstadt ghetto on 24 November 1941. We are showing The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman\, a new play about the only lesbian Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt\, Auschwitz\, and Neuengamme to bear testimony. The play\, which takes its text from interviews conducted by historian Anna Hájková\, offers a poignant look on coming of age as a Jewish queer woman in the concentration camps and reflects on love\, choices\, sexual violence and sexual barter\, homophobia\, and survival. \nThe play is followed by a discussion between the director and co-author of the play\, Dr Erika Hughes (Portsmouth University) and Dr Chelsea Sambells (Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association). Dr Hughes\, author of the forthcoming Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance (Bloomsbury/Methuen)\, discusses the making of The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman; how it fits into the cultural life and theater production in Theresienstadt\, and how these are reflected in the archival collections of the two hosting Holocaust institutions\, whether it is the Theresienstadt staging of Faust or the homesick letters of a Viennese philatelist in the ghetto library. \nThe premiere of the play will take place at 18.30 GMT. A link will be sent to all attendees to watch (46 minutes running time). \nThe Q&A held on Zoom will follow from approximately 19.15 GMT to 20.15 GMT. \nIf joining us from a different country\, please check the timezone appropriate to where you are.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-the-amazing-life-of-margot-heuman-commemorating-theresienstadt/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: The Nazi Rise to Power
DESCRIPTION:Propaganda played an important role in the Nazi Party’s rise to power. Rallies\, like this one pictured\, were an important way of spreading the Party’s ideas. This particular photograph was taken at a rally in Nuremberg in 1934. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Autumn Term educational talks and workshops. \nThe end of the First World War marked the beginning of a period of political and economic instability in Germany. As a result of this instability\, many small\, extremist political groups appeared. With the collapse of democracy\, one such party\, the NSDAP\, or Nazi Party\, rose to power in Germany. \nThis talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi rise to power. It will explore the aftermath of the First World War\, the role of the Weimar Republic\, the early years of the Nazi Party formation and how the Nazis ultimately consolidated their power. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this talk is suitable for those studying the following: KS3 History; GCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939; GCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955: The People and The State. Edexcel A-Level History – Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89; OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963; AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945. \nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-talk-the-nazi-rise-to-power/
CATEGORIES:Student Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211123T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Textbook portrayals of Britain and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Jewish refugees take a class at the Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp\, c. 1946-1948. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe British response to the Holocaust – both at the time and in retrospect – was extremely context. It ranged from stories of rescue\, such as the Kindertransport\, to examples of obstruction and antisemitism. \nThis presentation will explore how this intricate relationship has been depicted in a sample set of history textbooks designed for use in schools. Drawing upon source material from a range of dates and authors\, this presentation will give a taste of some key research findings. Notably\, although the British response was not always glorified in textbooks\, it was rare to find depictions of the relationship which offered a truly nuanced interpretation of the issue. \nAbout the speaker: \nDaniel Adamson is a PhD student in the History Department of Durham University. His research centres on educational portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. Daniel holds an MA in History from the University of Cambridge\, an MA in History Education from UCL\, and is also a PGCE-qualified former teacher. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-textbook-portrayals-of-britain-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: In the archive with Lotte Eisner: how she solved the problem of ‘Maria’ (the robot)
DESCRIPTION:Lotte Eisner and a model of ‘Maria’ from Metropolis (Fritz Lang\, 1927) in the museum of the Cinémathèque française. Courtesy of Mark Horowitz. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis talk is about visibility in the archive and its consequences. The focus is Lotte H Eisner\, well known as a film historian and author of three major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema: The Haunted Screen (1952)\, FW Murnau (1964) and Fritz Lang (1974). From 1945 she was also Chief Curator at the Cinémathèque Française and during her 30-year career there as a collector and archivist\, created and built a magnificent archive of material film culture including items such as scripts\, sets\, technical equipment\, costumes\, models\, posters and books. However\, this important work has tended to be overlooked by film historians and\, in some cases\, wrongly documented. Using examples of Eisner’s collecting and curation\, this talk will reveal how a lack of classification in the archive can lead to historiographical confusion and eventually invisibility. \nAbout the speaker: \nJulia Eisner is working on a PhD about her great-aunt the film historian\, writer and curator\, Lotte H Eisner\, at King’s College\, University of London. Prior to her PhD project\, Julia was a BBC Radio 4 reporter and producer for 20 years making features and documentaries. She then changed career and took an LLB and an LLM at Birkbeck\, the University of London where she taught in the Law faculty and worked as a research assistant on a European Law Project. In January 2016 Julia left Birkbeck to concentrate on researching and writing. In November 2016\, her programme The Vigil was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-in-the-archive-with-lotte-eisner-how-she-solved-the-problem-of-maria-the-robot/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Holocaust History Under Siege
DESCRIPTION:Destruction of a housing block in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising. US National Archives and Records Administration. \nFor the second Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture\, Professor Jan Grabowski will discuss how scholars of the Holocaust find themselves confronted with the hostile reactions of various states pursuing the policies of Holocaust distortion. This situation has acquired particular importance and urgency in Poland\, where the authorities have introduced a series of measures intended to freeze academic debate\, hinder independent research and intimidate scholars whose writings are perceived as opposed to the official\, state-approved historical narrative. \nThis lecture is presented in partnership with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership between The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway. \nRegistration and tickets:\nWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online\, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple\, free\, and only requires an email address.. Register for online lecture. \nTickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now\, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here. Book in-person tickets. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/second-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-holocaust-history-under-siege/
LOCATION:Museum of London\, 150 London Wall\, London\, EC2Y 5HN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211116T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Lecture: Studying Fascist Movements Across Interwar Europe
DESCRIPTION:Hlinka Guard meeting in Bzovík\, 4 March 1939. \nPart of the This Fascist Life exhibition event series. \nCalling someone a fascist during the interwar period meant first and foremost associating them with movements\, leaders\, or regimes that embraced that name\, or which other people commonly thought were fascist. Labels like ‘fascist’ were useful for activists seeking funding or alliances abroad\, for opponents trying to identify their enemies as fifth columnists\, or as a shorthand way to highlight key attributes of a movement. But in the day-to-day bustle of politics those groups generally considered as fascist often had more in common with right-wing or ultra-nationalist parties in their own countries than with comparable groups abroad. Activists and hostile observers alike acknowledged that certain commonalities animated movements and regimes\, but they were often remarkably ambivalent about whether particular movements were or were not ‘fascist’. \nIn this talk\, Roland Clark and Tim Grady approach the word ‘fascism’ as an empty signifier that was defined by its relationships rather than its content\, grounding it in the transnational\, pan-European context within which it emerged. By drawing together examples of what people meant by fascism from a variety of countries across the continent\, we offer a promising new way of thinking about what fascism was in interwar Europe. \nAbout the speakers: \nRoland Clark is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool and the Principal Investigator on the European Fascist Movements 1919-1941 project and co-curator of the This Fascist Life exhibition. He is a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right and President of the Society for Romanian Studies and the author of Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania (2015). \nTim Grady is Professor of History at the University of Chester and the Co-Investigator on the European Fascist Movements 1919-1941 project and co-curator of the This Fascist Life exhibition. He is the author of A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (2017) and The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory (2011).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-lecture-studying-fascist-movements-across-interwar-europe/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T150000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nA postwar Czech index revealed that Zuzana Knobloch had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 25 November 1943. It is presumed that she died there. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis two-day event series that will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nII. Recovering the Personal in Difficult Histories: A Family Research Workshop – 12 November 2021\, 1 – 3pm\nLearn how to take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service archive of the Linen Hall Library’s resources. This workshop will provide a demonstration of the ITS archive and a skills workshop as well as the opportunity for short\, one-on-one consultations with the panellists\, who will include The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Senior ITS Researchers\, Elise Bath and Mary Vrabecz\, and the Linen Library’s Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer\, Scott Edgar. Participants can navigate the ITS archive partially from their mobile devices and are invited to bring with them their family trees and research questions. Light refreshments will be served. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-recovering-the-personal-in-difficult-histories-a-family-research-workshop/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T203000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Being Human 2021 - Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person event taking place at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast. \nMissing since September 1943\, Zuzana Knobloch\, a young Czech Jew\, was arrested in Prague with her husband\, Ferdinand\, for resistance activities. Zuzana’s parents were murdered after being deported from Theresienstadt in 1942. It took her surviving family many decades to uncover her likely fate. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis two-day event series will discover the history of a little-known archive\, the International Tracing Service (now called the Arolsen Archives)\, created to find missing people after the Holocaust. We invite historians\, family historians\, heritage practitioners and anyone interested in the history of the Second World War\, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories\, both on the personal and broader\, historical level. Find out more about the series here. \nI. Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust – 11 November 2021\, 7 – 8.30pm\nA pop-up exhibition\, drinks reception and talks on the history of the search for the missing after the Second World War with co-curators Professor Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, led by Scott Edgar\, Assistant Arts and Cultural Programmer. The history of the collection and what it reveals about the Second World War helps provide context for research\, both family and academic\, within the archive itself. The discussion will include themes raised by the exhibition\, including war\, migration\, rupture\, survival and victimhood. \nBooking is essential as spaces are limited due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Pending easing of restrictions\, additional spaces may open close to the event. The Linen Hall Library is an accessible building with a lift to all levels\, step-free access to the Performance Area\, and seats available for the event. \nThis event is part of the Being Human festival\, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities\, taking place 11 – 12 November 2021. \nIn partnership with the Linen Hall Library\, the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/being-human-2021-loss-and-renewal-tracing-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:The Linen Hall Library\, 17 Donegall Square North\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT1 5GB\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: "The Mussolini of the North": A Transnational Look at Finnish Interwar Fascism
DESCRIPTION:The politician\, farmer Vihtori Kosola poses for the sculptor Mauno Oittinen\, 1930. Photographed by Pietinen\, Inventory ID: HK19670603:100\, Collection of Historical Images\, Finnish Heritage Agency. \nPart of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe event series. \nSimilar to most other European fascist movements\, the core of Finnish interwar fascism consisted of right-wing war veterans. As the experiences of the 1918 Finnish Civil War played a crucial role in their radicalisation\, many previous studies have focused on the domestic Finnish perspective to explain the phenomenon. Instead\, in this lecture\, Marja Jalava will follow the transnational turn within the broader field of fascist studies by focusing on the Lapua Movement and the Patriotic People’s Movement as Finnish manifestations of a European-wide\, transnational mobilisation. \nAbout the speaker: \nProfessor Marja Jalava gain her PhD in 2005 in Finnish and Nordic History at the University of Helsinki. She works currently as Professor in Cultural History at the School of History\, Culture and Arts Studies at the University of Turku. Her research interests lie in the modern history of Finland and other Nordic countries. Among her long-term interests is the history of nationalism and cultural radicalism. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-talk-the-mussolini-of-the-north-a-transnational-look-at-finnish-interwar-fascism/
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211102T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Virtual Teacher Workshop: Using Photographs in Teaching about the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Wehrmacht soldiers film the massacre of Jews in the Lvov Pogroms of July 1941\, carried out by the Einsatzgruppe C and the Ukrainian National Militia. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Autumn Term educational talks and workshops. \nUsing sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop will critically consider the use of photographs in Holocaust education. \nThe workshop will use a range of contemporary images taken before\, during and after the Holocaust to explore how these historical sources can be used effectively in the classroom. We will also examine the ethics of using photographs of victims; the motivations of the photographers; the context within which photographs were produced\, and issues around editing and format of images. We will help participants to reflect upon the ways in which photographs can be used to deepen school students’ understanding of the Holocaust without compromising the humanity of the victims. \nThe workshop is aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators\, and will be led by Elise Bath\, one of the Library’s Senior International Tracing Service Archive Researchers\, Roxzann Baker\, who coordinates the Library’s online educational resource The Holocaust Explained\, and Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer. \nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-teacher-workshop-using-photographs-in-teaching-about-the-holocaust-3/
CATEGORIES:Teacher Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211028T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: A Fascist Insurrection in Paris: 6 February 1934.
DESCRIPTION:A fascist insurrection taking place in Paris\, 6 February 1934. \nPart of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe event series. \nOn 6 February 1934\, thousands of extreme right-wing activists and war veterans gathered in Paris to protest against the alleged corruption of the left-wing government. The demonstration soon turned violent as protesters attempted to force their way into parliament. Over a dozen deaths resulted when police opened fire on the crowd\, eventually putting an end to the riot. For the French extreme right\, 6 February 1934 was a turning point\, after which hundreds of thousands of French joined anti-democratic movements. For left-wingers\, France had narrowly escaped a fascist seizure of power and the time had come to form a united front against French fascism. \nIn this lecture\, Dr Chris Millington will explore the origins and consequences of the violence\, including the various fascist movements in French politics. He will also draw comparisons with contemporary political events and examine what lessons might be learned. \nAbout the speaker: \nChris Millington is Reader in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written extensively on the history of the French extreme right and violence. His publications include Le Massacre de Clichy (2021)\, France in the Second World War (2020) and A History of Fascism in France (2019). \nCOVID-19 Notice \nPlease note that attendee numbers have been capped below full capacity for this event. \nIn order to keep everybody safe\, attendees are encouraged to take a lateral flow test before arriving\, check-in via the NHS Covid-19 App\, and wear a mask whilst inside the Library. \nPlease use the hand sanitisers available throughout the building. To improve ventilation\, windows will be opened by staff\, including in cooler weather. \nWe continue to closely monitor the situation with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic\, and as such\, our regulations are under constant review and might change at short notice. The safety and wellbeing of all our staff and visitors are of paramount importance and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-a-fascist-insurrection-in-paris-6-february-1934/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211026T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20211005T154254Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host historian Lucy Adlington in conversation with Dr Imogen Dalziel to discuss her new book\, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. \nAt the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – mainly Jewish women and girls – were selected to design\, cut\, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. \nThis fashion workshop – called the Upper Tailoring Studio – was established by Hedwig Höss\, the camp commandant’s wife\, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers. Here\, the dressmakers produced high-quality garments for SS social functions in Auschwitz\, and for ladies from Nazi Berlin’s upper crust. \nDrawing on diverse sources – including interviews with the last surviving seamstress – The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. Their bonds of family and friendship not only helped them endure persecution but also to play their part in camp resistance. Weaving the dressmakers’ remarkable experiences within the context of Nazi policies for plunder and exploitation\, Lucy Adlington exposes the greed\, cruelty\, and hypocrisy of the Third Reich and offers a fresh look at a little-known chapter of the Second World War and the Holocaust. \nAbout the speakers: \nLucy Adlington is a British historian and writer with more than twenty years’ specialisation in social history. Her previous non-fiction titles include Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear and Women’s Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action. Her fiction titles include the award-winning young adult novel The Red Ribbon. She runs the History Wardrobe series of costume presentations\, and has an extensive collection of vintage and antique clothing. \nDr Imogen Dalziel is part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership; part-time Administrator for the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London; and a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. Her research interests include the history of the Auschwitz Museum\, Holocaust tourism and Holocaust memory in the digital age.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-dressmakers-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211025T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211025T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20211001T101446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Archive Launch: Third Reich Testimonies
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday 25 October\, 6-7.30pm\, for the launch of a major new collection of nearly 300 filmed interviews with ‘Third Reich’ contemporaries. \nThis important resource enhances our understanding of everyday life in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe\, and of post-war reflections on responsibility\, complicity\, and justice\, of ‘ordinary’ people who were implicated in\, witnesses to\, or on the periphery of war and genocide. The collection includes accounts by former members of the Waffen-SS\, SS\, and Wehrmacht\, secretaries in National Socialist and military organisations\, alongside farm workers and homemakers. \nBritish documentary filmmaker Luke Holland\, who passed away on 10 June 2020\, spent nearly a decade between 2008 and 2017 to conduct some 500 hours of interviews in multiple locations with more than 250 elderly people\, including men and women from Germany\, Austria\, France\, the Netherlands\, and Belgium. His feature-length documentary film ‘Final Account’ premiered in 2020. \nSpeakers at the launch event will include Sam Pope (ZEF Productions)\, Professor Mary Fulbrook (UCL)\, Dr Stefanie Rauch (UCL)\, Mileva Stupar (Institute National de l’Audiovisuel)\, and Dr Toby Simpson (The Wiener Holocaust Library). \nThe archival project was initiated and directed by Luke Holland (ZEF Productions)\, in association with the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in France\, UCL\, and The Wiener Holocaust Library\, and Founding Partners\, Pears Foundation. \nResearchers will be able to access the collection at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel\, the Library\, and UCL from autumn 2021.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-archive-launch-third-reich-testimonies/
CATEGORIES:Launch Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211020T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210920T093948Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Musicians’ Exile in Shanghai\, 1938–1949
DESCRIPTION:In this virtual lecture\, Sophie Fetthauer will present her recently published monograph Musiker und Musikerinnen im Shanghaier Exil 1938–1949. \n \nMore than 450 musicians were among the approximately 18\,000 mostly Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who fled Nazi persecution to Shanghai from 1938. For most of them\, the Chinese port city was not a preferred destination. The situation there was marked by Japanese military occupation\, temporary ghettoization\, destructions of war\, and shortages. Against this complex background\, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of the conditions of the professional spheres of activity\, the (sub) cultural developments\, and the adaptation and demarcation of the musicians who fled to Shanghai. Topics covered by the study are the role of aid organizations in preparing the exile\, the popular music scene\, the trade union involvement\, the classical music scene and institutionalization\, the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra\, stage productions\, Jewish cantors in synagogues and concerts\, music educators and Chinese student circles\, activities of composers\, and the migration and rehabilitation after the end of the war. \nAbout the speaker: \nSophie Fetthauer studied Musicology and Literature at the University of Hamburg\, PhD in 2002; various research projects on music and musical life in the “Third Reich” and in exile with a focus on biographies\, company and institutional history\, exile in Shanghai as well as displaced person camps and remigration in the post-war period; co-editor of the “Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit”. \nwww.sophie.fetthauer.de. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-musicians-exile-in-shanghai-1938-1949/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211018T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211018T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210924T115350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: An Introduction to the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:This map indicates the number of Jews murdered by the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads that followed the German army) in each country. The map shows modern-day Belarus\, at the bottom\, then continuing clockwise\, Lithuania\, Latvia\, Estonia\, and Russia. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Autumn Term educational talks and workshops. \nIn this talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, the Library’s Head of Education\, Dr Barbara Warnock\, will draw upon the Library’s rich and diverse collections of original historical material to provide an introduction to the key events and the main features of the Holocaust. She will explore the murders of Jews and Roma by killing squads in eastern Europe\, and the transportations to extermination camps. The session will consider Jewish and Roma victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide\, examine who the perpetrators and collaborators were\, and consider the historical evidence that allows historians to understand the Holocaust. \nThis talk is suitable for those studying the following: GCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939; GCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955: The People and The State. Edexcel A-Level History – Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89; OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963; AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945. \nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-talk-what-was-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Student Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210726T101448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos
DESCRIPTION:Svenja Bethke in conversation with Zoë Waxman. \nThe ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe during the Second World War have mainly been seen as lawless spaces marked by brutality\, tyranny\, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw\, Lodz\, and Vilna ghettos\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how under these circumstances highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. \nLooking at sources from multiple archives and countries\, this book investigates how the Jewish Councils\, set up on German orders\, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down\, taking with them pre-war notions of justice and morality\, and considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so\, this book aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks clear categories of “good” and “bad” behaviour\, Dance on the Razor’s Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation. \nAbout the speakers \nSvenja Bethke is Lecturer in Modern European History and the Deputy Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She works on themes of the Holocaust\, Modern Jewish History and Fashion History. In 2019-2021\, she held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for her new project ‘Clothing\, Fashion and Nation Building in the Land of Israel’. \nZoë Waxman is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the University of Oxford. She previously taught in the history faculty in Oxford and at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she was fellow in Holocaust Studies. She is the author of Writing the Holocaust: Identity\, Testimony\, Representation (2006)\, and Anne Frank (2015)\, as well as numerous articles relating to the Holocaust and genocide. A board member of the British Association of Holocaust Studies\, she also sits on the editorial board of Holocaust Studies and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. She is a trustee of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a member of the academic advisory board for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust galleries. She is currently working on Women of the Holocaust: Gendering the Shoah (forthcoming with Oxford University Press) and a project on rape and sexual abuse in genocide. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-dance-on-the-razors-edge-crime-and-punishment-in-the-nazi-ghettos/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211006T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210820T100036Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe
DESCRIPTION:Supporter of the British Union of Fascists\, c. 1930s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library for the launch of our new exhibition\, This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe\, produced with the European Fascist Movements 1918 – 1941 project. \nDrawing upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archival collections\, first assembled in the 1930s by Dr Alfred Wiener as part of his fight against fascism\, as well as the expertise of an international group of experts in interwar fascism\, this exhibition focuses on the experiences of rank-and-file members of fascist movements in the interwar period. It explores the world of the young and socially diverse fascist activists and examines their motivations and activities. \nToday\, as extreme right-wing radicalism grows in strength in Europe and elsewhere\, this timely exhibition looks back to the first manifestations of the destructive phenomenon of fascism. \nWith contributions by Dr Roland Clark\, co-curator of the exhibition. More speakers are to be announced.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-this-fascist-life-radical-right-movements-in-interwar-europe/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210921T161109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Book Talk: Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing
DESCRIPTION:Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder\, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish\, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust\, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification programme. \n \nAlex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time\, Empire of Destruction considers Europe’s Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers\, the Soviet urban population\, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals\, the mentally and physically disabled\, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany’s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. \nCombining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror\, this is a vital and groundbreaking work. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Alex Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the history of Germany from 1918 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent on the morning of the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-book-talk-empire-of-destruction-a-history-of-nazi-mass-killing/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211005T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210924T093106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The Nazis speak for themselves: analysing perpetrator's narratives in The Nuremberg Trial
DESCRIPTION:The accused at the Nuremberg Trial. The Nuremberg Trial was a trial that prosecuted the major Nazi war criminals for their crimes throughout the Second World War\, including the Holocaust\, in 1945-1946. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis presentation examines the discursive strategies of the Nazi defendants throughout the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946)\, also known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT)\, the first trial of Europe’s denazification process that judged twenty-two men and served as the basis for all the subsequent Nazi trials. This paper intends to develop a set of archetypes of the ways the Nazis behave and evade responsibility during a criminal trial. Using the trials transcripts and the interviews the Nazis provide for the prison psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn and the prison psychologist G.M. Gilbert\, this paper will present a myriad of narratives: Nazis who remain Nazis even when facing death\, Nazis who deny their participation in any activity that could be seen as criminal\, and Nazis who claim to have resisted Nazism from the beginning. \nAbout the speaker: \nMaria Visconti is a Ph.D. candidate at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil and one of the coordinators of the Brazilian Center for Nazism and Holocaust Studies (NEPAT). She is a member of The Perpetrator Studies Network and her dissertation\, “‘A thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased’: Nazis’ narrative constructions during the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946)” develops a set of archetypes of ways the Nazis behave and evade responsibility during a post-war trial. Thus\, these archetypes and this research can serve as a basis to better understand similar perpetrator narratives in other trials. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-the-nazis-speak-for-themselves-analysing-perpetrators-narratives-in-the-nuremberg-trial/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211004T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210908T153629Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil 1944-45
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic book series\, the Library is delighted to host a talk with Dr Bastiaan Willems on his book\, Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil\, 1944-45. \n \nIn the final year of the Second World War\, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil\, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory\, focusing on the German units fighting in East Prussia and its capital Königsberg. He shows that the Wehrmacht’s retreat into Germany\, after three years of brutal fighting on the Eastern Front\, contributed significantly to the spike of violence which occurred throughout the country immediately prior to defeat. Soldiers arriving with an ingrained barbarised mindset\, developed on the Eastern Front\, shaped the immediate environment of the area of operations\, and of Nazi Germany as a whole. Willems establishes how the norms of the Wehrmacht as a retreating army impacted behavioural patterns on the home front\, arguing that its presence increased the propensity to carry out violence in Germany. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bastiaan Willems is a Leverhulme Abroad Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Formerly\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Modern European History at University College London. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-violence-in-defeat-the-wehrmacht-on-german-soil-1944-45/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210930T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210930T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081344
CREATED:20210809T100941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151307Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Compromise of Return: Elizabeth Anthony in conversation with Jacqueline Vansant
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new academic book series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an in-conversation on Dr Elizabeth Anthony’s book\, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust\, led by Professor Jacqueline Vansant. \n The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust explores the motivations and expectations that inspired Viennese Jews to re-establish lives in their hometown after the devastation and trauma of the Holocaust. Elizabeth Anthony investigates their personal\, political\, and professional endeavours\, revealing the contours of their experiences of returning to a post-Nazi society\, with full awareness that most of their fellow Austrians had embraced the Nazi takeover and their country’s unification with Germany—clinging to a collective national identity myth as “first victim” of the Nazis. Anthony weaves together archival documentation with oral histories\, interviews\, memoirs\, and personal correspondence to craft a multi-layered\, multivoiced narrative of return focused on the immediate post-war years. The Compromise of Return is the first such social history to depict how survivors—individually and collectively—navigated post-war Vienna’s political and social setting. \nAbout the speakers: \nElizabeth Anthony is a historian and serves as the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Jack\, Joseph\, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received her PhD in history from Clark University and was co-editor of Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen\, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service\, Bd. 4 with Rebecca Boehling\, Susanne Urban\, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming. \nJacqueline Vansant is Professor Emerita of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her work has focused on the constructions of ethnicities\, gender and national identities in post-World war II and contemporary Austrian literature\, memoirs and films. She has published Austria Made in Hollywood (Boydell & Brewer\, 2019); Reclaiming Heimat: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs by Jewish Austrian Reemigres (Wayne State University Press\, 2001)\, and a number of other books and articles. Among many other accolades\, she was awarded the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Distinguished Research Award in 2017. \nEvent guidelines: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n3. If you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-compromise-of-return-elizabeth-anthony-in-conversation-with-jacqueline-vansant/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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