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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210721T200000
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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
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210706T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082738
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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:20241023T082738
CREATED:20210518T145709Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T082738
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T082738
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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:20241023T082738
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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
DTSTAMP:20241023T082738
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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:20241023T082738
CREATED:20210329T133054Z
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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:20241023T082738
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210511T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210511T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T082739
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Resistance Network
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with the Armenian Institute and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nKhatchig Mouradian’s newly published book\, The Resistance Network\, is the history of an underground network of humanitarians\, missionaries\, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. \nMouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism\, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts\, official documents\, and missionary records\, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. \nHe ultimately argues that\, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities\, concentration camps\, and massacre sites in this region\, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered—unarmed resistance proved an important factor in saving countless lives. \nAbout the author: \nDr Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is the author of articles on genocide\, mass violence\, and unarmed resistance\, the co-editor of a forthcoming book in late Ottoman history\, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review. Mouradian holds a PhD in History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution from UMass Boston. He is the recipient of a Calouste Gilbenkian Research Fellowship to write the history of the Armenian community in China in the 19th and 20th centuries (2014). He is also the recipient of the first Hrant Dink Justice and Freedom Award of the Organization of Istanbul Armenians (2014). He serves on the Executive Committee of the Society of Armenian Studies (SAS) since 2015. \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-resistance-network/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: German Colonialism and its Aftermaths
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nGeneral Lieutenant Lothar von Trotha\, the chief military commander in German South-West Africa\, with his staff during the Herero uprising\, 1904. Bundesarchiv\, Bild 183-R27576 / Unknown / CC-BY-SA 3.0\, via Wikimedia Commons \nIn the late nineteenth century\, Germany rapidly acquired an overseas Empire that included substantial territories in Africa\, such as modern-day Tanzania\, Burundi\, Rwanda\, Namibia\, Togo and Cameroon\, and\, in the Pacific\, Papua New Guinea\, Samoa and the islands of Micronesia. The German colonial Empire became the third-largest global Empire and ​its territorial possessions were then ​confiscated after Germany’s defeat in the First World War. The brutality of German rule in parts of its ​empire\, notably during the genocide of the Herero and Nama in Namibia from 1904\, but also elsewhere\, can seem to foreshadow the events of the Holocaust. \nThis virtual event reflected upon the connections between German colonialism and later periods and its impact on ex-colonies and Germany in the twentieth century and today. The connections between this period of German colonialism and the Nazis’ racist imperialism were also explored: what were the continuities of personnel or ideology or practice? And what is the significance of these connections? The event also considered connections and comparisons between German imperialism and the imperialism of other European states\, as well as the way that the German Empire is remembered today in the ex-colonies and in Germany. \nAbout the speakers:\nJürgen Zimmerer is Professor of Global History at the University of Hamburg/Germany. From 2005 to 2017 he served as Founding President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) and from 2005 and 2011 as Editor/Senior Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. His research interests include German Colonialism\, Comparative Genocide\, Colonialism and the Holocaust\, and Environmental Violence and Genocide. He is the author and editor of ten books and journal special issues\, including “German Rule\, African Subjects. State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia”\, which will be out in June 2021. \nSara Pugach is a Professor in the Department of History at California State University LA. Her research focuses on the tangled interconnections between various African countries and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 2012\, she published Africa in Translation: A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond\, 1814 1945\, and her co-edited volume\, After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany just appeared in 2020. Her next book\, African Students in the German Democratic Republic\, 1949-1975 is due in 2021. \nAdam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. His forthcoming book\, currently titled An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa\, will appear in the Max Kade Research Institute of Pennsylvania State University Press’s book series\, “Germans Beyond Europe.” Among Dr Blackler’s most recent publications include a co-edited volume\, entitled After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies (Peter Lang)\, and a chapter\, entitled “The Consequences of Genocide in the Long Nineteenth Century\,” in the book series “A Cultural History of Genocide in the Long Nineteenth-Century” (Bloomsbury Press). He is presently researching a book project that explores the vibrant topography of Berlin’s parks\, market squares\, streets\, and municipal districts before and during the Weimar Republic. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-talk-german-colonialism-and-its-aftermaths/
CATEGORIES:Colonialism and Genocide,Racism and Antisemitism
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Forced Labour and Genocide: Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Uyghur men detained in a camp. \nThe Government of China is perpetrating human rights abuses on a massive scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region)\, known to local people as East Turkistan\, targeting the Uyghur population and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples based on their religion and ethnicity. These abuses include arbitrary mass detention of an estimated range of 1 million to 1.8 million people and a programme of re-education and forced labour. This involves both detainee labour inside internment camps and prisons and multiple forms of involuntary labour at workplaces across the Region and cities across China. \nDetention in labour and concentration camps is not something new or unfamiliar to Jewish people. \nRené Cassin and The Wiener Holocaust Library invite you to listen to our speakers who discussed the issue of forced labour as a means of persecution and genocide used during the Nazi-era and more recently in China today. \nSpeakers:\nProfessor Johannes-Dieter Steinert\, Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies\, University of Wolverhampton \nAdrian Zenz\, Senior Fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation \nRahima Mahmut\, World Uyghur Congress and Stop Uyghur Genocide Campaign \nJoe Collins\, Co-Executive Director and Editor\, Yet Again \nWatch back now:\n \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-forced-labour-and-genocide-then-and-now/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210429T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Members of a group of refugees from German-occupied Czechoslovakia being marched away by police at Croydon airport on 31 March 1939. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn January 2021\, a week before Britain’s twentieth Holocaust Memorial Day\, the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain was published. To mark the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust\, The Wiener Holocaust Library hosted an online panel discussion exploring how Britain has engaged and disengaged with the Holocaust in the past\, how it continues to in the present\, and reflected on how it may do so in the future. \nBoth The Palgrave Handbook on Britain and the Holocaust and this panel discussion take place at a time when the Holocaust has\, arguably\, a greater and more multifarious presence in Britain than has ever been the case. It is a state of affairs that raises significant and challenging questions about history and memory\, how the two are entwined and interact\, and how they are understood and valued in the present. Panellists were invited to reflect on these and other issues\, as they consider Britain’s engagements and disengagements with the Holocaust. \nAbout the panellists:\nDonald Bloxham is Richard Pares Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at Edinburgh since 2001\, has written on history and philosophy of the discipline of history\, and is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. \nKara Critchell is Lecturer in History at the University of Chester. She has research expertise in British cultural engagement with genocide\, perpetrators of mass violence\, and political violence in contemporary society. \nHannah K. Holtschneider is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is a cultural historian of twentieth-century history with a particular focus on the Holocaust\, Jewish identities\, and non-Jewish/Jewish relations. \nMichael Rosen is Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmith’s University\, an award-winning children’s author\, and a former Children’s Laureate. Among his most recent works is The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II. \nAbout the speakers:\nTom Lawson is Professor of History at Northumbria University. He is the author and editor of several books\, co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History\, and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. \nAndy Pearce is Associate Professor of Holocaust and History education at University College London. He has written and edited books on Holocaust history and memory in Britain and Holocaust education. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-palgrave-handbook-of-britain-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Testifying to the Truth: Half-Day Virtual Workshop for Faculty
DESCRIPTION:Dr Eva Reichmann\, c. 1950s and an example of a survivor account. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to invite applications from teaching or research faculty for a half-day virtual workshop centred on its new digital resource\, Testifying to the Truth\, which features more than 1\,000 eyewitness accounts of refugees and survivors of the Holocaust\, newly digitised and translated into English for the first time. The resource will continue to grow as more accounts are translated and published online. We welcome applications from teaching or research university faculty at any career stage who are interested in learning more about this collection and incorporating the materials into their teaching or research in a variety of disciplines\, including but not limited to Holocaust and genocide studies\, history\, digital humanities\, sociology\, oral history\, anthropology and linguistics. \nThe workshop will feature sessions on the history of the collection and its metadata\, demonstration of search strategies\, the methodology used by Dr Eva Reichmann to gather the materials\, as well as key themes related to oral histories/testimony\, gender\, age\, resistance and rescue\, among others. Sessions will include short presentations\, demonstrations and time for discussion\, and will be led by Dr Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library)\, Dr Barbara Warnock (The Wiener Holocaust Library)\, Leah Sidebotham (The Wiener Holocaust Library)\, Dr Rebecca Clifford (Swansea University)\, and Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway\, University of London) and Dr Madeline White (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\, among other speakers. There will also be a short list of recommended readings ahead of the workshop\, which will primarily include examples of eyewitness accounts in the collection. \nThe workshop is free to attend but spaces are limited to ensure a fruitful and constructive discussion. To apply\, please send the following application information to cschmidt@wienerholocaustlibrary.org by Monday 12 April. Participants will be notified of their acceptance by Friday 16 April.  \n\nName\nUniversity and department\nE-mail address\nIn 2-3 paragraphs\, please describe your research topic and interests and/or courses you teach.\nWhat do you hope to learn from this workshop?
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/testifying-to-the-truth-half-day-virtual-workshop-for-faculty/
CATEGORIES:Testifying To The Truth Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Armenians of Aintab
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to launch the publication of The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province to mark Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day 2021. \nThe author\, Ümit Kurt\, born and raised in Gaziantep\, Turkey\, was astonished to learn that his hometown once had a large and active Armenian community. The Armenian presence in Aintab\, the city’s name during the Ottoman period\, had not only been destroyed—it had been replaced. To every appearance\, Gaziantep was a typical Turkish city. \nKurt digs into the details of the Armenian dispossession that produced the homogeneously Turkish city in which he grew up. In particular\, he examines the population that gained from ethnic cleansing. Records of land confiscation and population transfer demonstrate just how much new wealth became available when the prosperous Armenians—who were active in manufacturing\, agricultural production\, and trade—were ejected. Although the official rationale for the removal of the Armenians was that the group posed a threat of rebellion\, Kurt shows that the prospect of material gain was a key motivator of support for the Armenian genocide among the local Muslim gentry and the Turkish public. Those who benefited most—provincial elites\, wealthy landowners\, state officials\, and merchants who accumulated Armenian capital—in turn\, financed the nationalist movement that brought the modern Turkish republic into being. The economic elite of Aintab was thus reconstituted along both ethnic and political lines. \nThe Armenians of Aintab draws on primary sources from Armenian\, Ottoman\, Turkish\, British\, and French archives\, as well as memoirs\, personal papers\, oral accounts\, and newly discovered property-liquidation records. Together they provide an invaluable account of genocide at ground level. \nAbout the speakers:\nÜmit Kurt is Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and an Australian Research Council Fellow. He is the author of several books in Turkish and English\, including The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide. \nStefan Ihrig is a professor of history at the University of Haifa and Director of the Haifa Center of German & European Studies. He works on various aspects of European and Middle Eastern history with an interest in the media as well as political and social discourses. He is co-editor of the Journal of Holocaust Research. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-armenians-of-aintab/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled Virtual Book Launch: The Last Ghetto – An Everyday History of Theresienstadt
DESCRIPTION:Dr Anna Hájková in conversation with Professor Dan Stone\nWe were delighted to launch Dr Anna Hájková’s book The Last Ghetto as part of the new Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \n \nTerezín\, as it was known in Czech\, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German\, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated\, one day after the end of the Second World War. \nThe Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one\, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods\, \nAnna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism\, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. \nThe prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age\, ethnicity\, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp’s existence\, prisoners created their own culture and habits\, bonded\, fell in love\, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and empathetic reading of victim testimonies\, The Last Ghetto is a transnational\, cultural\, social\, gender\, and organizational history of Terezín\, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility\, agency and its boundaries\, and belonging. \nAbout the speakers:\nDr Anna Hájková\nDr Hájková is Associate Professor of Modern European Continental History at the University of Warwick. She regularly contributes to mass media in English\, German\, and Czech in the publications Haaretz\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, Tablet\, and Tagesspiegel. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. \nProfessor Dan Stone\nProfessor 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. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-last-ghetto-an-everyday-history-of-theresienstadt/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210415T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kwibuka 27 – Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Rwanda
DESCRIPTION:A virtual panel discussion hosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in collaboration with the Ishami Foundation remembering the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. \nFlame of remembrance lit to mark the beginning of the 100-day commemoration period for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. \nApril 7 2021 marks the 27th anniversary of the start of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This year\, Rwanda has repeatedly made the headlines with coverage of the arrest and subsequent trial of Paul Rusesabagina. This former rescuer faces multiple charges\, including financing terrorism and forming terrorist groups. But much media coverage until recently has focussed on his role in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda\, a role survivors have critiqued as simplified and inaccurate. \nThis commemoration period\, this Kwibuka 27\, questions about how genocide is remembered are at the forefront of conversations. Our panel members offered their own personal and professional reflections on: the importance of survivor voices and personal testimony (Omar Ndizeye); the challenges of navigating media simplifications and the nuances of intergenerational memory (Alice Musabende); and the role of post-genocide justice in shaping identity and memory (Phil Clark). \nThe panel was chaired by Zoe Norridge and there was time for questions and discussion at the end. \nAbout the speakers:\nOmar Ndizeye is one of only a few survivors of the two-day long massacre in Nyamata Catholic Church\, during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. He is currently co-writing a comprehensive book about genocide memorials in Rwanda and has contributed to multiple initiatives enabling survivor healing including the AERG counselling helpline. In 2020 he published his first book\, Life and Death in Nyamata: Memoir of a Young Boy in Rwanda’s Darkest Church. \nAlice Musabende is a Gates Scholar pursuing a PhD in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the role of global governance in rebuilding countries emerging from conflicts and mass atrocities. A former journalist\, Alice is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and has written and spoken extensively on the role of the international media in the genocide and its aftermath. Alice lives in Cambridge with her two boys. \nPhil Clark is Professor of International Politics at SOAS. Australian by nationality but born in Sudan\, he specialises in conflict and post-conflict\, with a particular focus on genocide\, peace\, justice and reconciliation in the African Great Lakes. His books include The Gacaca Courts and Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2010) and Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics (2018). He is currently in Rwanda with his family. \nZoe Norridge is Chair of the Ishami Foundation\, Pro-Vice Dean for Impact and Innovation and Senior Lecturer in African and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. She researches cultural responses to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda\, with a particular focus on literature\, photography and place. Books include the translation of Yolande Mukagasana’s Not My Time to Die (2019) and Perceiving Pain in African Literature (2013). \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-kwibuka-27-genocide-and-the-politics-of-memory-in-rwanda/
CATEGORIES:Colonialism and Genocide,Genocide
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Sephardi Holocaust Histories: Families Adrift
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Abrevaya Stein\, François Matarasso in conversation with Paris Chronakis. \n \nAs part of its Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to host a panel discussion of new works that explore Sephardi family microhistories of the Holocaust\, led by Dr Paris Chronakis. An expert on the history and memory of Greek Jewry\, Chronakis lead Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and François Matarasso in conversation. Stein spoke about her book based on the copious Levy family papers\, which helped chronicle Sephardi Jewish life across and beyond the Ottoman Empire\, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century (2020)\, and Matarasso\, discussed his father’s and grandfather’s memoirs\, published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44 (2020). \nAbout the speakers:\nParis Chronakis is Lecturer in Modern Greek History at Royal Holloway\, University of London having previously taught at Brown University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches and researches on the history and memory of the Modern Mediterranean and his work explores questions of transition from empire to nation-state by bringing together the entangled histories of Jews\, Christians and Muslims from the late Ottoman Empire to the Holocaust. In recent years\, his research and publications have expanded to post-imperial urban identities\, Balkan War refugees\, Zionism and anti-Zionism in interwar Europe\, the Holocaust of Sephardi Jewry\, and digital Holocaust Studies. Paris was a member of the scientific committee developing the ‘Database of Greek Jewish Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies’ and is on the editorial board of the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain. \nSarah Abrevaya Stein is a historian\, writer and educator whose work has reshaped our understanding of Jewish history. Her commitment to research is matched by her love of teaching. At UCLA\, she is Professor of History\, the Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\, as well as the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies. She is the author or editor of nine books\, including Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers\, Jews\, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. Sarah has received many awards including the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two National Jewish Book Awards and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. \nFrançois Matarasso is a writer\, researcher and consultant with 40 years’ experience in community-based arts development. He specialises in practice-led research\, especially on the impact of culture\, and in organisational support across the cultural sector. He has worked for international agencies\, national and local governments\, foundations and cultural organisations in some 30 countries. His work has been widely published and translated. His father and grandfather’s accounts have been published in Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica\, 1941-44. \nWatch back now:\n \nHosted by The Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with the Hellenic Institute\, Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies and Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-sephardi-holocaust-histories-families-adrift/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Iby and Trude: The Death Marches and Me
DESCRIPTION:Part of Death Marches: Evidence and Memory event series. \nIby Knill BEM & Trude Silman MBE in conversation with Tracy Craggs. An HGRP event hosted by the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association. \nIby Knill BEM and Trude Silman MBE. \nThe Nazi death marches represent a chapter of history that is often forgotten or overlooked. Towards the end of the Second World War\, the Nazis forced tens of thousands of prisoners deeper into German territory by whichever means possible – often on foot. These journeys took days\, sometimes weeks; food was scarce; clothing was inadequate for the harsh weather conditions. Hundreds died before they could reach their destination\, or before liberation by Allied troops. The impact of the death marches is still felt to this day\, both by those who survived them and those whose relatives did not. \nIby Knill spent six weeks in Auschwitz-Birkenau before being transferred to a slave labour camp in Lippstadt\, Germany. In mid-March 1945\, the prisoners were taken on a death march towards Bergen-Belsen. Iby could hardly walk on the march due to an infection in her hip\, and credits her survival to the friends who supported and\, at times\, literally carried her along the way. She was liberated by American soldiers in Kaunitz on Easter Sunday 1945 and moved to Britain in 1947 with her husband Bert\, a British Army officer whom she married in 1946. \nTrude Silman came to England from her native Bratislava (then Czechoslovakia) with her aunt and cousin at the age of nine. Her father perished in Auschwitz; her mother Else remarried during the war\, perhaps in an attempt to avoid deportation as single people were often taken more quickly. Else’s mother and her husband were eventually sent to Sered’ concentration camp; they were separated when he was deported to Sachsenhausen. Trude still does not know exactly what happened to her mother but believes she was sent on a death march to Ravensbrück in March 1945 before being forced onwards to Volary. Her search continues. \nIby and Trude were in conversation with Tracy Craggs (Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association) where they discussed their experiences before\, during and after the Holocaust\, in particular\, the effect that the death marches have had on their lives. This was then followed by a short Q&A. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-talk-iby-and-trude-the-death-marches-and-me/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Drunk on Genocide - Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Professor Edward Westermann in conversation with Professor Dan Stone. \nIn Drunk on Genocide\, Edward B. Westermann reveals how\, over the course of the Third Reich\, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps\, ghettos\, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated “performative masculinity\,” expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibitions extended from meetings of top Nazi officials to the rank and file\, celebrating at the gravesites of their victims. Westermann argues that\, contrary to the common misconception of the SS and police as stone-cold killers\, they were\, in fact\, intoxicated with the act of murder itself. \nDrunk on Genocide highlights the intersections of masculinity\, drinking ritual\, sexual violence\, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset\, motivation\, and mentality of killers as they prepared for\, and participated in\, mass extermination. \nAbout the speakers:\nEdward B. Westermann is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-San Antonio\, a Commissioner on the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission\, and author\, most recently\, of Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. His areas of expertise include modern European history\, the Holocaust\, and war and society. \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. 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. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-drunk-on-genocide-alcohol-and-mass-murder-in-nazi-germ/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT Virtual Workshop: Thinking through the Library’s Eyewitness Accounts of Jewish Resistance in Belgium
DESCRIPTION:Survivor accounts from the Library’s digital database. \nIn this workshop\, the Library’s Senior Curator and Head of Education\, Dr Barbara Warnock\, will present recent findings from research conducted into the Library’s eyewitness accounts of Jewish resistance in Belgium\, and explore with workshop participants the significance of the documents both as evidence of anti-Nazi resistance\, and as evidence of the post-war efforts to document the Holocaust. \nThese documents\, gathered as part of a research project launched by the Library’s Head of Research Dr Eva Reichmann in 1954\, are a small but important subsection of the Library’s substantial collection of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. With reports from some of the leading figures in Belgian resistance and in child rescue in Belgium\, the documents provide insights into many topics\, including the background and motivations of resisters; the central role of women in resistance; the operation of child rescue networks; the extent of collaboration between Jewish resistance networks and other groups and individuals in Belgium; details of the effects of their experiences on the resisters\, and the dangers that they faced. The reports also reflect the methods and assumptions that governed The Wiener Library’s project to gather documentation from survivors and eyewitnesses of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. \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 (12.55) 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-workshop-thinking-through-the-librarys-eyewitness-accounts-of-jewish-resistance-in-belgium/
CATEGORIES:Testifying To The Truth Events
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