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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:20241023T082337
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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:20241023T082337
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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:20241023T082337
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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:20241023T082337
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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
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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:20241023T082337
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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:20241023T082337
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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:20241023T082337
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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210706T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: Reckonings and Forced Confrontations after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:22 April 1945. Civilians from Gardelegen are assembled in the town square by US military authorities to march to the nearby cemetery for victims of the Gardelegen massacre and plant crosses at their graves. Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora\, National Archives and Records Administration. \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 aspects of reckonings with the Holocaust in the immediate post-war period. Panelists will explore the disintegration of the camps system; ‘forced confrontations’ between Allied militaries and the German civilian population; post-war trials of perpetrators involved in the death marches; and the lives of Holocaust survivors in the aftermath of liberation. \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 Margarete Myers Feinstein is clinical assistant professor in Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She received her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of California\, Davis. Prof. Feinstein was also assistant professor of history at Indiana University South Bend and a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Interested in the legacies of Nazism\, she has published on postwar German national identity and on Jewish Holocaust survivors\, including State Symbols\, 1949–1959 (Brill\, 2002)\, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany\, 1945–1957 (CUP\, 2010)\, and numerous book chapters and articles. Most recently\, she published “Reconsidering Jewish Rage after the Holocaust” in the Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture\, edited by Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (2020). Her current project on retribution after the Holocaust has received support from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nDr Stefan Hördler is Lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History\, University of Göttingen. He specializes in twentieth-century German and transnational history\, Holocaust and genocide studies\, social and economic history. Hördler is the author and co-editor of several books. His most recent publications are\, among others\, “Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz” (Darmstadt: WBG Academic\, 2019) or “Ordnung und Inferno. Das KZ-System im letzten Kriegsjahr” (Göttingen: Wallstein\, 20202). He is member of several academic advisory boards in Europe. For the past decade\, Hördler served as expert consultant in a number of international investigations against former Nazi camp personnel such as in the Auschwitz trials in Lüneburg (2015) and Detmold (2016)\, and the Stutthof trials in Münster (2018) and Hamburg (2020). \nDr Alex J. Kay is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He specialises in the history of Germany from 1914 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and mass violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer\, which appeared in 2016 with Cambridge University Press\, and Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing\, due out later this year with Yale University Press. \nProfessor Christopher Mauriello is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University in Salem\, Massachusetts. He teaches and researches in the fields of modern European intellectual and cultural history\, World War II\, the Holocaust\, and comparative genocide studies. He is author of Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II (Lexington Books\, 2017) and co-author of From Boston to Berlin: A Journey Through World War II in Images and Words (Purdue University Press\, 2001). His current research focuses on the end of WWII and the complex political\, social and cultural meanings imposed on dead bodies and human remains in the wake of war and mass violence. \nDr Martin Clemens Winter was born in 1981 in Nordhausen\, Germany. He studied History\, Sociology and Communications- and Media Science in Leipzig. His PhD thesis “Gewalt und Erinnerung im ländlichen Raum. Die deutsche Bevölkerung und die Todesmärsche” (“Violence and Remembrance in Rural Areas: The German Population and the Death Marches”) was awarded with the Stanislav Zámecník Research Award of the Comité International de Dachau in 2018. Winter has worked in memorial sites\, in historical-political education and exhibition projects. From 2017 to 2020\, he worked for the Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig with a focus on memorial events and culture of remembrance. In 2020\, Winter held a post-doctoral research grant of the Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt am Main. Since 2021\, he is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Leipzig University with the project “Corporate Culture\, Forced Labour and Mass Murder at the HASAG armaments company from Leipzig”\, funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-reckonings-and-forced-confrontations-after-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: "Jewish refugee 'rescue' at the interstices of Philippine independence\, 1938-1941"
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nAn eyewitness account by Sergeant Gerard Kohn\, American Liberation Forces\, of the situation of Jewish refugees in Manila. Testifying to the Truth\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis presentation gives an overview of the admission of Jewish refugees to the Philippines from 1938 to 1941. It discusses the political responses and introduces the key figures involved in two related Jewish immigration programmes to the archipelago. The first provided visas to pre-selected Jewish refugees based on ‘needed’ professions in the country. The second was the so-called ‘Mindanao Plan’\, which proposed to admit 10\,000 refugees to the southern island of Mindanao as agricultural settlers. These responses took place at the interstices of the Philippines’ independence from the United States. The presentation shows that refugees were part of the process of state-formation\, entangled in the creation of new immigration laws and development interests. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Ria Sunga has recently finished her PhD in History at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the political responses to refugees in the Philippines in the twentieth century. She focuses on the episodes of Jewish\, Russian\, and Vietnamese refugee admission. \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-jewish-refugee-rescue-at-the-interstices-of-philippine-independence-1938-1941/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: To Meet In Hell
DESCRIPTION:To Meet in Hell follows Glyn Hughes\, a high-ranking British officer\, and Rachel Genuth\, a teenager from the Hungarian provinces\, as they navigate their respective forms of hell during the final\, brutal year of the Second World War. \nTheir stories converge before the war’s end\, in Bergen-Belsen\, where Hughes finds himself responsible for an unprecedented situation: 25\,000 of 60\,000 war-ravaged inmates are in need of immediate hospitalization. Rachel is among those at death’s door. Their narratives tell a larger story—about the suffering of the victims\, the struggles of liberators who strove to save lives\, and about the human capacity for fortitude and redemption. \nYou can purchase a copy of the book here. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bernice Lerner is the former dean of adult learning at Hebrew College and a senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility. \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-to-meet-in-hell/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Denial and Distortion of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi: what is happening and how can we prevent it?
DESCRIPTION:Photographs of victims of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, and the Hall of Names\, Yad Vashem. \nIn this event\, hosted in association with the Ishami Foundation to mark the anniversary of the ‘100 days’ of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, our panel of speakers will consider issues around denial and distortion of the Holocaust and of the genocide against Tutsi. Our speakers will each give their perspectives on the nature of these kinds of falsification and misrepresentation of history\, current manifestations of these attitudes and beliefs\, and the mechanisms by which such beliefs are spread and propagated. There will follow a discussion between panel members exploring the commonalities and differences between these two instances of genocide denial and distortion. \nAbout the speakers: \nLonzen Rugira holds a Phd from Howard University\, Washington DC. He studied public policy from the African Studies Research Program for both his masters and doctorate degrees. His undergraduate degrees were in political science and public finance. At Howard University\, Lonzen taught the political economy of African states and was a research assistant at the Moorland Spingarn Research Centre. He was a Roitchi Sasakawa Fellow. At the University of Rwanda\, he taught in the duo masters programme at the Centre for Conflict Management. He taught genocide studies and prevention and genocide early warning signs. \nLinda Melvern is a British investigative journalist\, a former member of the Sunday Times Insight Team. She has written seven books of non-fiction. For the past 27 years\, she has researched and written exclusively about the circumstances of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Her three books on the subject are: A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide\, (Zed 2000 Revised paperback 2009) Conspiracy to Murder. The Rwandan Genocide (Verso 2004. Revised paperback 2006) Intent to Deceive. Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi (Verso 2021) \nPhilip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University\, where he taught for many years. He is a Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck College\, where he is also a Research Associate of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of a number of works\, including Genocide since 1945; Nationalism – A Critical Introduction and Nations and Nationalism (both with Howard Wollman); and most recently of Antisemitism and the Left – on the Return of the Jewish Question (with Robert Fine). He is currently writing a longer history of genocide. \nJoe Mulhall is Head of Researcher at HOPE not hate\, a group founded in 2004 to use research\, education\, advocacy and public engagement to challenge racism and fascism. Mulhall was formally a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway\, University of London where he also completed his PhD on the post-war far right. His books include Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right (Icon Books 2021)\, British Fascism After the Holocaust (Routledge 2020) and co-author of The International Alternative Right (Routledge 2020). He appears regularly in print and broadcast media. \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-event-denial-and-distortion-of-the-holocaust-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-what-is-happening-and-how-can-we-prevent-it/
CATEGORIES:Genocide
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and A Cup of Tea: Benno Gantner’s Clandestine Death March Images
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nClandestine death march image taken by Benno Gantner in 1945. USHMM. \nThis talk examines the clandestine nature and cartographical significance of a series of death march images taken by Benno Gantner from the window of his home in Percha\, just outside Munich\, as prisoners were marching southeast from Dachau after its liquidation in 1945. Via a reading of clandestine wartime photography as a critical cartographical practice that binds victims to their environments\, this talk brings Gantner’s images into dialogue with emerging scholarship on the spatial organisation of the Holocaust. In so doing\, it examines the unique tension between clandestine photographs as forensic tools with which we can verify the journeys taken by the prisoners they depict on the one hand and emotionally affective visual devices that immortalise the public suffering and humiliation of these subjects on the other. \nAbout the speaker: \nEmily-Rose Baker is a recently submitted PhD student in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis is titled ‘Postcommunist Constellations: Decolonial Cultures of Holocaust Memory in Central-Eastern Europe’\, and examines localised literary and artistic interventions into state-sponsored narratives of Holocaust revisionism and appropriation after 1989. \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-benno-gantners-clandestine-death-march-image/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082337
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: The Politics of Dead Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Exhumation registers of the Wetterfeld concentration camp cemetery\, Northern Bavaria. Arolsen Archives. \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 the forensic turn in Holocaust and genocide studies. The panel will address how forensic evidence\, such as sites of mass burial and human remains\, has informed research and remembrance of genocide\, as well as political and ethical dealings with sites of mass atrocity. Speakers will discuss forensic archaeology and exhumations of mass graves related to the Spanish Civil War\, the Holocaust\, and the Second World War\, and the afterlives of related 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 Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a Professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History\, Sciences-Po Paris. He is a specialist of the economic and diplomatic aspects of the Holocaust and post-war reparations. His research considers other genocides\, Jewish history in Europe and exhumations of corpses after mass violence. He also works on looted art in the Holocaust and the unfinished restitution process. Jean-Marc Dreyfus’ current research is three-fold. It considers the question of looted art in this Holocaust and its legacy; he is interested in the personal narrative and the microhistorical approaches of Holocaust victims; he considers the question of the ‘forensic turn’ in Holocaust studies\, the ‘forensic turn’ being the studies of human remains’ treatment during and after the genocide\, including their uses for commemorative purposes. He is currently writing a monograph on the French mission in search of deportees’ corpses in Germany from 1946 to 1960. \nDr Zuzanna Dziuban is a Cultural Studies scholar at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History\, the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is currently working on the ERC Consolidator project “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals”. Dr Dziuban obtained her PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland\, in 2009. Since then\, she has undertaken postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Konstanz\, the Humboldt University/House of the Wannsee Conference and the University of Amsterdam\, amongst others. \nDr Layla Renshaw is Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Kingston University\, London. Her research interests include the role of archaeology and material culture in post-conflict investigations\, the relationship between human remains and traumatic memory\, and public perceptions of forensics. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Spain on the exhumation of Civil War graves. She is the author of Exhuming Loss: Memory\, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Her current research concerns the identification of World War I soldiers on the Western Front\, examining the link between genetic testing and memory. In 2019\, she was principal investigator on the ISRF-funded group project Citizen Forensics: Materializing the Dead from Grave to Gene. \nProfessor Roma Sendyka is Director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures and teaches at the Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies Department within the Faculty of Polish Studies\, Jagiellonian University\, Kraków. Her research specialises in criticism and theory\, visual culture studies and memory studies. Professor Sendyka is also currently working on a project on non-sites of memory in Central and Eastern Europe. She is head of the research project Awkward Objects of Genocide: Vernacular Art on the Holocaust and Ethnographic Museums\, developed within the project Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES\, Horizon2020\, Reflective Society\, 2016-2019\, led by Professor Klaus Schönberger) and of the team project Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Their Impact on Collective Memory\, Cultural Identity\, Ethical Attitudes and Intercultural Relations in Contemporary Poland (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education\, the National Programme for the Development of Humanities\, 2016-2019).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-politics-of-dead-bodies/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210603T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: On the Trail of the Death Marches
DESCRIPTION:Attempted identification of unknown dead – Karl Franz. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \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 the sources and new research methods that have uncovered different aspects of the history of the death marches and the end of the Second World War. What sources do scholars use to recover and narrate this difficult past? Which forms do those narrations take? \nSpeakers will discuss new digital humanities and mapping methodologies\, the use of oral histories and testimonies\, and other sources key to uncovering new insight into the end of the Holocaust. \nWe welcome anyone interested in learning more about the latest scholarship in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies to attend. \nAbout the Panel \nDr Henning Borggräfe\, born 1981\, is a historian and\, since 2017\, Head of Research and Education at the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution. He earned his PhD in History in 2012 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Before he came to Arolsen in 2014\, he worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen. He has published on Nationalism\, Nazi Germany\, the History of Sociology\, and Germany’s dealing with the Nazi past\, including the books Zwangsarbeiterentschädigung. Vom Streit um “vergessene Opfer” zur Selbstaussöhnung der Deutschen (2014\, author)\, A Paper Monument: The History of the Arolsen Archives (2019\, co-editor) and Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present (2020\, co-editor). \nDr Simone Gigliotti teaches Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she is also Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Institute and affiliated with the Centre for the Geo-Humanities\, and the Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric. Her publications include The Train Journey: Transit\, Captivity and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2009) and the co-edited collection\, The Wiley Companion to the Holocaust (2020). Simone has active interests in spatial histories and narratives of displacement\, deportation\, and maritime movement during and after the Holocaust. Her collaborative work with Marc Masurovsky and Erik Steiner on death marches focused on the evacuations of women inmates from the Rajsko subcamp at Auschwitz during January 1945 and was published as “From the Camp to the Road: Representing the Evacuations from Auschwitz\, January 1945” in the edited collection Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). She further explored constructions of embodied time and sensory witnessing during death marches and deportations in the chapter “A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography” which was published in the edited collection Hitler’s Geographies (2016). \nMs Yona Kobo is a researcher and Online Exhibitions Co-ordinator in the Digital Department\, Communications Division at Yad Vashem. She has curated digital exhibitions such as ‘My Lost Childhood’\, ‘The Onset of Mass Murder: The Fate of Jewish Families in 1941’ and ‘The Death March to Volary’. She has also written numerous blogs for Yad Vashem and The Times of Israel. \nDr Alexander von Lunen is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He has a degree in computer science and a doctorate in history\, both from the Technical University Darmstadt\, Germany. Dr von Lunen worked in the software industry in Germany for many years\, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2007\, where he became a Research Fellow in the Geography Department\, acting as technical lead for the Vision of Britain website. In 2012 he was hired as Research Fellow for a digital humanities project with the Photographic History Research Centre at De Monfort University\, Leicester. In 2014 he then worked as Research Associate on a project in Social Media analysis for the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University. Dr von Lunen is also on the academic advisory board for the University’s Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-on-the-trail-of-the-death-marches/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Ravine
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership event\, part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series.  \nThe terrible mass shootings in Poland and the Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. Wendy Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence – a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them – and from it has crafted The Ravine: A Family\, A Photograph\, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed\, a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus. \nOne of the most compelling themes to emerge from her investigations in Ukraine\, Slovakia\, Germany and the USA is the identity and the surprising role of the photographer who recorded the killings. He must\, Lower assumed\, have been part of the Nazi organization of genocide. The truth was different… \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her research and teaching focus on the history of genocide\, the Holocaust and human rights. Lower is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton\, 2013) which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and has been translated into 23 languages. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. She earned her doctorate in history from Clark University in 2003. Her research has focused on the history of the International Tracing Service and early tracing efforts in Britain\, postwar research and collection initiatives\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-ravine/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082337
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SUMMARY:Virtual Primary Source Workshop for A-Level Students: Who was Responsible for the Holocaust?
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 October-November 1946. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn this workshop\, aimed at A-Level History students\, The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Barbara Warnock and Roxzann Baker will use documents from the Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust to explore the question of responsibility for the Holocaust. A-Level history coursework\, essays and exams frequently pose this question\, and the primary sources contained within the Library’s archives can shed light on various themes connected to the topic\, including the role of Hitler\, Himmler and senior Nazis; the role of collaborators\, and also the issue of the significance of the operation of the Nazi state. \nThis workshop will use primary sources to explore these themes and also examine issues around the use and reliability of primary sources. \nDr Barbara Warnock is Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library \nRoxzann Baker is The Holocaust Explained Project Co-ordinator at The Wiener Holocaust Library \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 and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). If you have any technical difficulties\, please email Roxzann Baker (rbaker@wienerholocaustlibrary.org) and we’ll do our best to help sort them out.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-primary-source-workshop-for-a-level-students-who-was-responsible-for-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Student Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Overt-covert recounting: deconstructing women’s personal memory narratives of sexual violence during the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nEyewitness account by Janka Galambos entitled ‘Forced Women Labourer for the Argus Aeroplane Works in Berlin-Reinickendorf’. Testifying to the Truth\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nDrawing on survivor interviews housed in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive\, this presentation will highlight a range of ways in which Jewish women recount their first-hand memories of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust within a public Holocaust ‘testimony’ sharing context. In particular\, the talk will explore the vocabulary employed by the women so as to communicate their story of assault to an interviewer (and implied audience) and consider how an ‘overt-covert’ narrative may be conceptualised as a form of protective ‘sideways’ storytelling. How do women encode stories of sexual assault in the act of recounting them? What thematic vehicles emerge when ‘speaking private memory to public power’ (Theresa de Langis\, 2018)? How may a researcher de-code them? \nPlease note this talk will contain graphic descriptions of sexual assault. \nAbout the speaker: \nLauren Cantillon is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Culture\, Media & Creative Industries at King’s College London. Her research explores the ways in which Jewish women recount personal memory narratives of sexual(ised) violence during the Holocaust. She is the 2020/21 Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Centre for Advanced Genocide Research and a volunteer for the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her work on emotional regimes of memory and cultural production will feature in Covid-19\, the Second World War and the Idea of Britishness (forthcoming\, 2021). \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-overt-covert-recounting-deconstructing-womens-personal-memory-narratives-of-sexual-violence-during-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210517T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082337
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Afterlives of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Laura Levitt and Dawn Skorczewski in conversation with James Young\nThis panel discussion will consider questions about life after trauma\, violence\, and loss: what makes this possible? What is the role of art and literature in doing justice to these pasts and imagining different futures? What is the relationship between trauma and art or writing? Professor Dawn Skorczewski and Professor Laura Levitt will be led in conversation by Professor James Young. \nDawn Skorczewski’s Sieg Maandag: Life and Art in the Aftermath of Bergen-Belsen combines Sieg Maandag’s testimony and writings with his art\, giving voice to his experiences and creating a dialogue between trauma and art. Sieg Maandag (1937-2013) was 7 years old when he was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Separated from his parents\, he survived the war with his sister and 50 other Dutch children. A photo of Sieg walking beside a row of bodies in liberated Bergen-Belsen shocked the world when it appeared in Life magazine on May 9\, 1945. His mother used this photo to find him in Amsterdam after the war; his father never returned. After trying his hand at the family diamond trade and clothing design\, Sieg travelled extensively\, searching for life’s meanings. He found his true love\, Karen\, and eventually discovered his other true love—painting. He devoted the rest of his life to painting and ceramics in Amsterdam. In interviews\, he often remarked\, “I was always a painter.” In his haunting and healing paintings and ceramics\, Maandag expresses the suffering and joys of life in what Lawrence Langer terms the “afterdeath” of Bergen-Belsen. When art becomes a way to depict\, manage\, and transform trauma\, the work itself informs life. \nLaura Levitt’s The Objects That Remain is equal parts personal memoir and fascinating examination of the ways in which the material remains of violent crimes inform our experience of\, and thinking about\, trauma and loss. Considering artefacts in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and evidence in police storage facilities across the country\, Laura’s story moves between intimate trauma\, the story of an unsolved rape\, and genocide. Throughout\, she asks what it might mean to do justice to these violent pasts outside the juridical system or through historical empiricism\, which are the dominant ways in which we think about evidence from violent crimes and other highly traumatic events. Over the course of her investigation\, the author reveals how these objects that remain and the stories that surround them enable forms of intimacy. In this way\, she models for us a different kind of reckoning\, where justice is an animating process of telling and holding. \nAbout the speakers:\nDawn Skorczewski is Lecturer at Amsterdam University College\, and Research Professor of English Emerita at Brandeis University. Her research interests include the Holocaust\, psychoanalysis\, pedagogy\, poetry\, writing\, and trauma. Several recent articles address the Holocaust survivors of the Dutch Diamond Industry\, the interviewer’s role in Holocaust testimonies\, and Jan Karski’s interviews. Her 2012 work An Accident of Hope positions the therapy tapes of American poet Anne Sexton at the intersections of poetry\, trauma\, pedagogy\, and testimony. \nLaura Levitt is Professor of Religion\, Jewish Studies\, and Gender at Temple University where she has chaired the Religion Department and directed both the Jewish Studies and the Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Programs. Levitt is the author of The Objects that Remain (2020); American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007); and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997) and a co-editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (2003) and Judaism Since Gender (1997). Levitt edits NYU Press’s North American Religions Series with Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State University) and David Harrington Watt (Haverford College). \nJames E. Young is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English and Judaic & Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, where he has taught since 1988\, and Founding Director of the Institute for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Memory Studies at UMass Amherst. Professor Young has written widely on public art\, memorials\, and national memory. \nEvent guidelines:\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check 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-afterlives-of-trauma-laura-levitt-and-dawn-skorczewski-in-conversation-with-james-young/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210512T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210512T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082337
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Jews\, Christians\, and the Holocaust in a Christian Army Chaplain’s Account of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
DESCRIPTION:An eyewitness account of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by Reverend David Stewart. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe Crime of Belsen is a 58-page pamphlet in the collection of The Wiener Holocaust Library. It was written and published in Germany in July 1945 by the Reverend David Stewart\, a British army chaplain. A close reading of Reverend Stewart’s report reveals a unique account of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and the post-liberation care of Holocaust survivors. By sharing Stewart’s writing and photographs\, this talk will explore how Stewart understood what he witnessed at Belsen\, including his recording of survivor testimony. It is a revealing example of how one Christian encountered Jews in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and how he first began to respond to its implications. \nAbout the speaker: \nRobert Thompson is a PhD student in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London. His research\, Liberators\, Occupiers\, Pastors: Christian Encounters with Holocaust Survivors in Germany\, 1945-1950\, is funded by a Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. Rob’s MA thesis was awarded Proxime Accessit by the Royal Historical Society for their 2020 Rees Davis Prize. \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-jews-christians-and-the-holocaust-in-a-christian-army-chaplains-account-of-the-liberation-of-bergen-belsen/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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