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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
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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:20241023T081850
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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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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
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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:20241023T081850
CREATED:20210921T161109Z
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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:20241023T081850
CREATED:20210924T093106Z
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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
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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:20241023T081850
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210929T180000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081850
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SUMMARY:Virtual HGRP Talk: Role-Shifting in Atrocity Crimes: The Case of Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership event.  \nThis lecture explores the potentially problematic delineation between victims/survivors\, bystanders\, and perpetrators of genocide. Drawing on over a decade of oral historical research on the 1994 Rwandan genocide — in which approximately 800\,000 civilians\, most of whom were Tutsi\, were murdered by Hutu Power extremists — Dr Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow) shows how many Rwandans’ experiences were more complex than the victim/survivor\, bystander\, and perpetrator categories permit. She argues instead for considering genocide-affected people as “complex political actors”\, at least as a starting point for engagement. Doing so facilitates understanding of the extensive role-shifting that can occur amid mass atrocities as people negotiate survival\, and may more effectively support initiatives aimed at promoting social repair by correcting the sometimes harmful overly-simplistic narratives that arise about genocide-affected people from all sides of the conflict. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Erin Jessee is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow\, where she uses oral historical and ethnographic methods to engage with people’s diverse experiences of genocide and related mass atrocities\, particularly in Rwanda. She is the author of Negotiating Genocide in Rwanda: The Politics of History\, co-editor of Researching Perpetrators of Genocide\, and has published articles with Medical History\, Memory Studies\, Oral History Review\, History in Africa\, and Forensic Science International\, among others. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent the day before the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-hgrp-talk-role-shifting-in-atrocity-crimes-the-case-of-rwanda/
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T123000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081850
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SUMMARY:A Round Table Discussion: Confronting Eugenics: Between Word and Image
DESCRIPTION:An in-person event at The Wiener Holocaust Library.  \n‘Eugenic Certificate’\, c. 1910s. Medical Historical Library\, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library\, Yale University  \nThe Nazis tried to gather support for the 1933 Sterilisation Law by playing into concerns about the cost of health care. Wiener Library Collections. \nA round table discussion about the relevance of eugenics in education and its impact on the welfare state occasioned by the exhibition “We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics. \nSpeakers: \nSubhadra Das (UCL Science and Technology Studies) \nNazlin Bhimani (UCL Institute of Education) \nInderbir Bhullar (LSE) \nBenedict Ipgrave (UCL) \nMarius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/confronting-eugenics-between-word-and-image/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Legacies of Eugenics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210921T200000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: "We are not alone": Legacies of Eugenics
DESCRIPTION:Neues Volk\, 1 March 1936\, p. 37. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark the launch of a new travelling exhibition\, curated by Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)\, which explores the history and legacies of eugenics\, a hundred years on from the influential Second International Eugenics Congress. \n“We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics is part of a global anti-eugenic movement initiated by ‘From Small Beginnings‘. \nThe evening will feature contributions by Dr Lisa Pine and Professor Joe Cain. \nAbout the speakers: \nMarius Turda is Professor of 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine and Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities\, Oxford Brookes University. \nLisa Pine is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \nJoe Cain is Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology at the University College London. \nWith thanks to Oxford Brookes University\, Public History Project/the Ford Foundation and Romanian Embassy in London/Romanian Cultural Institute.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/launch-event-we-are-not-alone-legacies-of-eugenics/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Legacies of Eugenics
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210920T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081850
CREATED:20210824T092846Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: 'A Man who Did Everything Twice’: Jewish Refugee Industrialists in Britain’s Special Areas\, 1936-1940
DESCRIPTION:Friedlander family in front of their Glasgow factory\, probably in the 1940s. Scottish Jewish Archives Centre\, Friedlander Files. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis paper will explore the Jewish refugee industrialists who settled in Britain’s ‘Special Areas’ as part of the effort to revitalize the regions hit hardest by the Great Depression. While the national legislation provided the framework for refugee industrialist migration\, it was the efforts of local British people to seek out and assist refugees that made this migration and the Special Areas projects successful. Despite the setbacks and challenges of WWII\, together refugee industrialists and local British people in the Special Areas helped rebuild and integrate their respective communities. \nAbout the speaker: \nTiffany Beebe is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation “Rebuilding Communities: Refugee Industrialists in the ‘Special Areas’ of Britain\, 1934-1945\,” explores the economic\, social\, and cultural impact of Continental Jewish refugees on Britain’s so-called ‘Special Areas\,” the efforts to recover from the Great Depression\, and their experiences acculturating to life in Britain during the Second World War. Beebe’s other research interests include immigration and migration throughout the British Empire\, Jewish studies\, gender/sexuality\, and decolonization. \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-man-who-did-everything-twice-jewish-refugee-industrialists-in-britains-special-areas-1936-1940/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210914T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081850
CREATED:20210826T091830Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Contested Spaces: The National Holocaust Monument in Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:A photograph of Weesperstraat 31-29\, Amsterdam in 1932. Weesperstraat is the location of the soon-to-be-unveiled National Holocaust Monument featuring the names of 102\,000 Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Of that number\, 175 Jews in the Weesperplantsoen neighbourhood did not return. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThis presentation examines the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee’s fifteen-year-long battle to bring the country’s first national Holocaust monument to Amsterdam. Protests over location\, design\, funding and its environmental impact led to lawsuits and delayed construction for years. Despite this\, the monument\, designed by Daniel Libeskind\, is set to be unveiled on 19 September 2021. Drawing on interviews\, newspaper articles\, and city archives\, this talk delves into the complexity of the debate and demonstrates how responses to the monument are emblematic of Dutch attitudes towards Holocaust commemoration. \nAbout the speaker: \nJazmine Contreras is an Assistant Professor of European History at Goucher College in Baltimore\, Maryland. She completed her doctorate in European History at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities in summer 2020. Her dissertation\, “‘We were all in the resistance’: Historical Memory of the Holocaust and Second World War\,” examines contested cultural memories of the Second World War and the Holocaust through an analysis of the monuments\, museums\, educational programs\, and commemoration ceremonies that shape memorial culture in the Netherlands. \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-contested-spaces-the-national-holocaust-monument-in-amsterdam/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210913T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T081850
CREATED:20210702T142154Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Light of Days
DESCRIPTION:As part of the  Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust exhibition event series at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, join Judy Batalion to hear her talk about her acclaimed new book\, New York Times bestseller\, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. One of the most important stories of the Second World War\, already optioned by Steven Spielberg: a spectacular\, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full\, until now. \nWitnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbours and the violent destruction of their communities\, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage\, guile\, and nerves of steel\, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards\, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade\, and helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with German soldiers\, bribed them with wine\, whiskey\, and home cooking\, used their Aryan looks to seduce them\, and shot and killed them. They bombed German train lines and blew up a town’s water supply. They also nursed the sick and taught children. \nYet the exploits of these courageous resistance fighters have remained virtually unknown. Powerful and inspiring\, The Light of Days is an unforgettable true tale of war\, the fight for freedom\, exceptional bravery\, female friendship\, and survival in the face of staggering odds. \nAbout the speaker: \nJudy Batalion is the author of White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood\, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between and most recently The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Forward\, Vogue and many other publications. Judy has a BA in the history of science from Harvard\, and a PhD in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute\, University of London\, and has worked as a museum curator and university lecturer. Born in Montreal\, where she grew up speaking English\, French\, Hebrew and Yiddish\, she now lives in New York with her husband and three children. \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-light-of-days/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Finding Gerty: Exhibiting Gerty Simon's work for the first time in eighty-five years
DESCRIPTION:Alexander Iolas (1907-1987)\, Greek/American art collector\, dancer\, gallerist\, photographed by Gerty Simon\, c. 1930s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin us for this online English-language event with the curators of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon exhibition and Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee’s current show\, Gerty Simon. Berlin/ London. A Photographer in Exile. \nDr Lucy Wasensteiner and Dr Barbara Warnock will discuss the genesis and development of their respective exhibitions and provide an insight into the life\, work and career of German Jewish photographer Gerty Simon\, who photographed many of the leading cultural and political figures of her day in Berlin\, and then\, in exile after 1933 in London. This year at Liebermann-Villa\, Simon’s work is on display in Germany for the first time since her flight to Britain after the accession to power of the Nazi Party. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Lucy Wasensteiner is Director at Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee in Berlin. Her publications include The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition: Answering Degenerate Art in 1930s London (2019) and the edited volume Sites of Interchange: Modernism\, Politics and Culture between Britain and Germany 1919-1950 (forthcoming). \nDr Barbara Warnock is the Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library and the author\, with John March\, of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019). \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-talk-finding-gerty-exhibiting-gerty-simons-work-for-the-first-time-in-eighty-five-years/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210728T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Manfred Goldberg: My Death March Experience
DESCRIPTION:Manfred Goldberg. Minnow Films Ltd./Richard Ansett. \nFor the final event in our Death Marches: Evidence and Memory event series\, we are delighted to be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM. Mr Goldberg will be led in conversation by Professor Dan Stone\, one of the co-curators of the Death Marches exhibition\, and share his experiences of his own death march journey and liberation. There will also be time for an audience Q&A. \nAbout the Speakers \nManfred Goldberg BEM was born on 21 April 1930 in Kassel\, Germany\, into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father escaped to England shortly before the outbreak of war; Manfred\, his mother and younger brother\, Herman\, were deported to the Riga Ghetto in 1941. In August 1943\, just three months before the ghetto was finally liquidated\, Manfred and his mother were sent to a labour camp\, where he was forced to work laying railway tracks. It was during their internment here that Herman disappeared one day\, and was never heard from again. As the Red Army approached Riga\, Manfred and the other surviving prisoners were evacuated to Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (today Gdańsk) in August 1944. He spent more than eight months as a slave worker in Stutthof and its subcamps\, including Stolp and Burggraben. The camp was abandoned just days before the war ended and Manfred and other prisoners were sent on a death march in appalling conditions. Manfred was finally liberated at Neustadt in Germany on 3 May 1945. \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 the day before the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-talk-manfred-goldberg-my-death-march-experience/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210721T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: We Share the Same Sky
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with The Ark Synagogue and The Wiener Holocaust Library.  \nTo mark the forthcoming publication of Rachael Cerrotti’s new memoir\, which follows on from her award-winning podcast\, We Share the Same Sky\, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and The Ark Synagogue to hear Rachael in conversation with Stephen D. Smith about the book and the genesis and development of the project. We Share The Same Sky documents Cerrotti’s decade-long journey to weave together the thin threads of her family history\, and\, in particular\, the story of her grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust. The project is an intergenerational diary of love\, loss and the will to move forward in the face of uncertainty. \nAbout the speakers: \nRachael Cerrotti is an award-winning photographer\, writer\, educator and audio producer as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. For over a decade\, she has been retracing her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story and documenting the echoes of WWII. In the fall of 2019\, she released her critically-acclaimed podcast\, titled We Share The Same Sky\, about this story. The podcast is now being taught in classrooms worldwide. Rachael’s memoir\, also titled ‘We Share The Same Sky’ will be published this summer and is now available for pre-order. Learn more at: www.rachaelcerrotti.com & www.sharethesamesky.com \nDr. Stephen D. Smith is Finci-Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation. He is adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California\, he is a theologian by training. Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in England and co-founded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. Smith was the project director responsible for the creation of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda and trustee of the South Africa Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. \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. \nThis event will be taking place at 7pm BST.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-we-share-the-same-sky/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210719T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210719T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: Remembering the Death Marches
DESCRIPTION:A poster designed by Sara Jaskiel for a UN exhibition about the March of the Living. Source: March of the Living. \nAs part of the Death Marches: Evidence and Memory exhibition events series\, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss different ways of commemorating the death marches\, including pilgrimages\, memorials at former Nazi camps and other sites of significance\, and artistic and photographic responses to such sites. \nWe welcome anyone interested in learning more about the latest scholarship in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies to attend. \nAbout the Panel \nProfessor Tim Cole is Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol. His research ranges over histories and geographies of the Holocaust and its representation and memory\, environmental histories\, digital humanities and co-produced and interdisciplinary research practices. His most recent books are About Britain (2021) and Holocaust Landscapes (2016). \nMs Angela Gluck has worked as a teacher trainer\, broadcaster\, curriculum developer and consultant to schools and local authorities—specialising in equality and diversity. Angela teaches children\, young people and adults across the Jewish community and is the author of over 40 books on aspects of religion and history\, including the award-winning Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People. She has led several study tours in Polish-Jewish history and been involved with March of the Living (MOTL) UK since its inception\, acting as senior educator for groups of adults\, young professionals and students. Her presentations include a one-hour programme Voices of Belsen\, to commemorate the 75th anniversary\, and Stories from the Darkness\, about the righteous. She is a vigorous trustee of The Separated Child Foundation\, which supports lone refugee youth. \nDr Andrew Mycock is a Reader in Politics at the University of Huddersfield and Director of External Engagement. His key research interests also concern post-imperial identity politics in the UK\, including the ‘Politics of Britishness’ and devolution\, English national and regional identity politics\, the British ‘history wars’ and legacies of empire\, the politics of First World War commemoration in the UK\, and the history of British imperial historiography. He also has significant research and teaching interests focusing on youth democratic engagement and participation in the UK\, and has published widely on issues including citizenship education\, youth party politics\, and voting age reform. He is chair of the Kirklees Democracy Commission\, President of the Children’s Identities and Citizenship in Europe Association network\, and an elected Trustee of the Political Studies Association. He is an experienced policy specialist and is co-chair of the Universities Policy Engagement Network Futures Committee. \nMs Susan Silas is a visual artist. She is interested in the way history intersects the personal and in how identity is formed. Her project Helmbrechts walk\, 1998-2003\, in which she retraces on foot a 225-mile death march of all women prisoners at the close of WWII\, attempts to give voice to the experiences and histories of women during the Holocaust; a history is written almost entirely by Western European men. Helmbrechts walk is analyzed in depth in two books on the Holocaust and in a recent book on the landscape. Helmbrechts walk has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna\, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim in Germany\, Hebrew Union College Museum in New York City\, Koffler Gallery in Toronto\, University Art Gallery at Stony Brook\, and Chatham College in Pittsburgh. Her recent work examines the meaning of embodiment\, the index in representation\, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She focuses on the aging body\, gender roles\, the fragility of sentient beings and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through new technologies. \nProfessor Jens-Christian Wagner\, born in 1966\, studied history\, geography and Romance languages and literature in Göttingen and Santiago de Chile (M.A.). His 1999 doctoral thesis about the history of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp at the University of Göttingen was published as Produktion des Todes. Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora in 2001. In 2000\, he was a guest scholar in the research programme Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin); from 2001-2014\, Director of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial at Nordhausen; from 2014-2020\, Director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation at Celle and Lecturer at the Leibniz University of Hannover; and\, since October 2020\, Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation at Weimar and Professor for History in Media and Public at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Professor Wagner has curated several exhibitions and published numerous books and articles about the history of the concentration camps and forced labour in Nazi Germany and about the politics of memory after 1945.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-remembering-the-death-marches/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Souvenirs of suffering: Taking items from the Auschwitz site
DESCRIPTION:Items taken from the Kanada section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau site by two British teenagers in 2015. Polish Regional Police Command. \nContemporary visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum mark their experience of seeing the former concentration and extermination camp in various ways. Many take photographs; others share their impressions on social media; and some purchase books\, fridge magnets or posters from the Museum shops. In recent years\, however\, a small number of visitors have made the headlines for attempting to take other ‘souvenirs’ – namely\, items and artefacts from the grounds of the former camp itself. \nIn 2015\, for example\, two English schoolboys were arrested\, fined and put on trial for attempting to take home small items they had found lying around in the former Kanada complex. Other items pocketed by visitors include bricks\, pieces of barbed wire and fragments from the Birkenau railway track. What might the average visitor hope to gain from taking ‘souvenirs’ from the Auschwitz site\, and what is the proposed final destination of these items? This talk will examine possible motivations for visitors removing artefacts from the former camp\, such as financial gain\, iconography\, the need for an ‘authentic’ experience and the fulfillment of emotional connections. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Imogen Dalziel is the 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. She obtained her PhD from Royal Holloway in October 2020 with a thesis that explored the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s adaptation to the digital museum. Her first published journal article\, ‘“Romantic Auschwitz”: Examples and Perceptions of Contemporary Visitor Photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’\, won Holocaust Studies’ inaugural Best Essay Prize in 2017. Dr Dalziel also received an ‘If Not for Those Ten…’ award for voluntary services to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 2016. \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-souvenirs-of-suffering-taking-items-from-the-auschwitz-site/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210707T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210707T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Lost Cafe Schindler
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication in 2021 of Meriel Schindler’s acclaimed book The Lost Café Schindler\, join the author and Lord Daniel Finkelstein in conversation about the book and Schindler’s project to uncover the history of her father and her family. \nAbout The Lost Café Schindler: \nKurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler\, of Schindler’s List fame? Or Hitler’s Jewish doctor – Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht\, the night that Nazis beat Kurt’s father half to death and ransacked the family home? \nWhen Kurt died in 2017\, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him and to solve the mysteries he had left behind. \nStarting with photos and papers found in Kurt’s isolated cottage\, Meriel embarked on a journey of discovery taking her to Austria\, Italy and the USA. She reconnected family members scattered by feuding and war. She pieced together an extraordinary story taking in two centuries\, two world wars and a family business: the famous Café Schindler. Launched in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War\, this grand café became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis arrived. \nThrough the story of the Café Schindler and the threads that spool out from it\, this moving book weaves together memoir\, family history and an untold story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It explores the restorative power of writing and offers readers a profound reflection on memory\, truth\, trauma and the importance of cake. \n‘An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings – a journey across a long\, complex and deeply painful arc of history\, grippingly told – a wonderful melding of the personal and the political\, the family and the historical’ Philippe Sands. \nBuy The Lost Café Schindler via Bookshop.org or Waterstones.com. \nAbout the speakers: \nMeriel Schindler spent the first fifteen years of her life growing up in central London before suddenly being moved to a convent school in provincial Austria. Five years later she moved back to the UK to study French and German at university and she is now an employment lawyer\, partner and head of a team at Withers\, a law firm. Meriel is also a trustee of Arvon\, the writing charity. \nLord Daniel Finkelstein is a journalist and politician. He is the Executive Editor of The Times\, where he is also a weekly political columnist. In politics\, he has worked for John Major\, William Hague and David Cameron. He is the grandson of Dr Alfred Wiener\, Holocaust survivor and founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-lost-cafe-schindler/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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