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Respective exhibition curators, Dr 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.
For the final event in our exhibition series, we are delighted to be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM who will share his experiences of his own death march journey and liberation, led in conversation with Professor Dan Stone.
The Wiener Holocaust Library and The Ark Synagogue celebrate the launch of Rachael Cerrotti’s new memoir.
As part of the Library's new 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.
This talk will examine possible motivations for visitors removing artefacts from Auschwitz, such as financial gain, iconography, the need for an ‘authentic’ experience and the fulfillment of emotional connections.
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 […]
As part of the Library's new 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.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk gives an overview of the admission of Jewish refugees to the Philippines from 1938 to 1941.
'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.
In 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.
This PhD 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 as prisoners were marching southeast from Dachau after its liquidation in 1945.
As part of the Library's exhibition events series, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the forensic turn in Holocaust and genocide studies.
