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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: On the Trail of the Death Marches
DESCRIPTION:Attempted identification of unknown dead – Karl Franz. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nAs part of the Death Marches: Evidence and Memory exhibition events series\, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the sources and new research methods that have uncovered different aspects of the history of the death marches and the end of the Second World War. What sources do scholars use to recover and narrate this difficult past? Which forms do those narrations take? \nSpeakers will discuss new digital humanities and mapping methodologies\, the use of oral histories and testimonies\, and other sources key to uncovering new insight into the end of the Holocaust. \nWe welcome anyone interested in learning more about the latest scholarship in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies to attend. \nAbout the Panel \nDr Henning Borggräfe\, born 1981\, is a historian and\, since 2017\, Head of Research and Education at the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution. He earned his PhD in History in 2012 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Before he came to Arolsen in 2014\, he worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen. He has published on Nationalism\, Nazi Germany\, the History of Sociology\, and Germany’s dealing with the Nazi past\, including the books Zwangsarbeiterentschädigung. Vom Streit um “vergessene Opfer” zur Selbstaussöhnung der Deutschen (2014\, author)\, A Paper Monument: The History of the Arolsen Archives (2019\, co-editor) and Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present (2020\, co-editor). \nDr Simone Gigliotti teaches Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she is also Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Institute and affiliated with the Centre for the Geo-Humanities\, and the Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric. Her publications include The Train Journey: Transit\, Captivity and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2009) and the co-edited collection\, The Wiley Companion to the Holocaust (2020). Simone has active interests in spatial histories and narratives of displacement\, deportation\, and maritime movement during and after the Holocaust. Her collaborative work with Marc Masurovsky and Erik Steiner on death marches focused on the evacuations of women inmates from the Rajsko subcamp at Auschwitz during January 1945 and was published as “From the Camp to the Road: Representing the Evacuations from Auschwitz\, January 1945” in the edited collection Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). She further explored constructions of embodied time and sensory witnessing during death marches and deportations in the chapter “A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography” which was published in the edited collection Hitler’s Geographies (2016). \nMs Yona Kobo is a researcher and Online Exhibitions Co-ordinator in the Digital Department\, Communications Division at Yad Vashem. She has curated digital exhibitions such as ‘My Lost Childhood’\, ‘The Onset of Mass Murder: The Fate of Jewish Families in 1941’ and ‘The Death March to Volary’. She has also written numerous blogs for Yad Vashem and The Times of Israel. \nDr Alexander von Lunen is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He has a degree in computer science and a doctorate in history\, both from the Technical University Darmstadt\, Germany. Dr von Lunen worked in the software industry in Germany for many years\, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2007\, where he became a Research Fellow in the Geography Department\, acting as technical lead for the Vision of Britain website. In 2012 he was hired as Research Fellow for a digital humanities project with the Photographic History Research Centre at De Monfort University\, Leicester. In 2014 he then worked as Research Associate on a project in Social Media analysis for the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University. Dr von Lunen is also on the academic advisory board for the University’s Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-on-the-trail-of-the-death-marches/
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Ravine
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership event\, part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust series.  \nThe terrible mass shootings in Poland and the Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. Wendy Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence – a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them – and from it has crafted The Ravine: A Family\, A Photograph\, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed\, a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus. \nOne of the most compelling themes to emerge from her investigations in Ukraine\, Slovakia\, Germany and the USA is the identity and the surprising role of the photographer who recorded the killings. He must\, Lower assumed\, have been part of the Nazi organization of genocide. The truth was different… \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor Wendy Lower is the John K. Roth Professor of History and Director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College. She chairs the Academic Committee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her research and teaching focus on the history of genocide\, the Holocaust and human rights. Lower is the author of Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton\, 2013) which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and has been translated into 23 languages. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. She earned her doctorate in history from Clark University in 2003. Her research has focused on the history of the International Tracing Service and early tracing efforts in Britain\, postwar research and collection initiatives\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent via email on the morning of the event.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-ravine/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210525T130000
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Testifying to the Truth: Archival Discovery Workshop for Postgraduate Students
DESCRIPTION:Part I: Introductory Session: Tuesday 23 March 2021\, 2-3pm\nPart II: Flash Presentations & Discussion: Tuesday 30 March 2021\, 2-3.30pm\n\nLibrarian in the Reading Room at The Wiener Library in Devonshire Street\, c. 1950-1959. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library was pleased to hold a two-part archival discovery 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 welcomed applications from teaching or research university faculty at any career stage who were 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 featured an introductory hands-on navigation and framing session co-led by Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Leah Sidebotham\, Digital Asset Manager\, and Dr Madeline White (Royal Holloway\, University of London). Participants were then invited to present their findings a week later for discussion. \nWatch back now:\nThe first session of this workshop is available to watch via The Wiener Holocaust Library’s YouTube page. \n \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/testifying-to-the-truth-archival-discovery-workshop-for-postgraduate-students/
CATEGORIES:Testifying To The Truth Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Afterdeath of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Langer in conversation with Ben Barkow. \nSurvivor accounts from the Library’s digital database\, ‘Testifying to the Truth’. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library was delighted to launch Professor Lawrence Langer’s most recent book\, The Afterdeath of the Holocaust. This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Langer calls the ‘deathscape’ and the ‘hopescape’ of the Holocaust. The chapters in this collection probe the diverse impacts that site visits\, memoirs\, survivor testimonies\, psychological studies\, literature and art have on our response to the atrocities committed by the Germans during the Second World War. Langer also considers the misunderstandings caused by erroneous\, embellished and sentimental accounts of the catastrophe\, and explores some reasons why they continue to enter public and printed discourse with such ease. \nAbout the speakers:\nLawrence L. Langer is Emeritus Professor of English at Simmons University in Boston\, USA and a renowned scholar of Holocaust literature. \nBen Barkow is the Chair of the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association of Leeds and Chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Academic Advisory Board. He was the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library from 1998-2019. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-afterdeath-of-the-holocaust/
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT Virtual Teacher Workshop: Using Photographs in Teaching about the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Using sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop will critically consider the use of photographs in Holocaust education. \nWehrmacht soldiers film the massacre of Jews in the Lvov Pogroms of July 1941\, carried out by the Einsatzgruppe C and the Ukrainian National Militia. \nThe workshop will use a range of contemporary images taken before\, during and after the Holocaust to explore how these historical sources can be used effectively in the classroom. We will also examine the ethics of using photographs of victims; the motivations of the photographers; the context within which photographs were produced\, and issues around editing and format of images. We will help participants to reflect upon the ways in which photographs can be used to deepen school students’ understanding of the Holocaust without compromising the humanity of the victims. \nThe workshop is aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators\, and will be led by Dr Barbara Warnock\, the Library’s Head of Education and Senior Curator\, Roxzann Baker\, who coordinates the Library’s online educational resource The Holocaust Explained\, and Elise Bath\, one of the Library’s Senior International Tracing Service Archive Researchers. \nEvent guidelines\n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk folders. \n2. Please try and join 5 minutes before the event start time (17.55) and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-teacher-workshop-using-photographs-in-teaching-about-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Teacher Workshop
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT. Virtual Symposium: The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: Sources\, Memory\, Politics
DESCRIPTION:Professor Antony Polonsky \nThis symposium\, in honour of Professor Antony Polonsky on the occasion of his 80th birthday\, brings together established and junior scholars researching the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Thematically focused on Sources\, Memory and Politics\, the symposium offers a timely overview of the state of knowledge. \nThe full program can be viewed here. \nOrganisers: The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies in co-operation with the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (UCL) and The Wiener Holocaust Library. \nThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization is offering a 30% discount on Professor Polonsky’s books and volumes of Polin here. \nWatch back now:\nThe entire proceedings of the symposium are available to watch back via The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Youtube page.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/symposium-the-holocaust-in-eastern-europe-sources-memory-politics/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Family History and the Holocaust - Staff from the Library discuss their work in family history
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a new event in our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust Event Series\, which explores the meaning and legacy of family research into the Holocaust. \nA hand-written diary from the Library’s collections. \nThis event will discuss how family history makes up a significant aspect of both the collection and research work carried out by The Wiener Holocaust Library staff. Senior Archivist Howard Falksohn and Photo Archivist Torsten Jügl will offer insight into the family papers and photographs held at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, while Helen Lewandowski will present her work using parts of this material in the ongoing Refugee Family Papers project. Senior ITS Researcher Mary Vrabecz will also offer guidance on how to begin researching family members who were caught up in the Holocaust. \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 (17.55) 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-family-history-and-the-holocaust-staff-from-the-library-discuss-their-work-in-family-history/
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210304T190000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch our first\, co-located exhibition Death Marches: Evidence and Memory.\n \nTowards the end of the Second World War\, hundreds of thousands of prisoners still held within the Nazi camp system were forcibly evacuated in terrible conditions under heavy guard. Prisoners were sent out on foot\, by rail\, in horse-drawn wagons\, in lorries and by ship. Thousands of people were murdered en route in the last days before the war’s end. Many of these chaotic and brutal evacuations became known as ‘death marches’ by those who endured them. They form the last chapter of Nazi genocide. \nThe Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership is pleased to launch its inaugural exhibition\, co-curated by Dan Stone (RHUL) and Christine Schmidt (WHL)\, and on display in 2021 at The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Exhibition & Learning Centre at the University of Huddersfield. \nThe exhibition uncovers how forensic and other evidence about the death marches has been gathered since the end of the Holocaust. It chronicles how researchers and others attempted to recover the death march routes – and those who did not survive them. Efforts to analyse and commemorate the death marches continue to this day. \nThe launch event included a gallery walk-through\, short talks by the co-curators and other guest speakers. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-death-marches-evidence-and-memory/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Boy from Boskovice: A Father’s Secret Life
DESCRIPTION:Author Vicky Unwin in conversation with Sarah Helm\nVicky Unwin had always known her father – an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat – was Czech\, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish. \n \nSo began a quest to discover the truth about his past – one that perhaps would help answer the niggling doubts she had always had about her ‘perfect’ dad. Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely-guarded cache of family books and papers\, Vicky discovered the identity of her grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar\, hugely controversial both in life and in death\, who was a protégé and posible lover of Thomas Mann\, and a friend of Berthold Brecht and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father’s child was Vicky – and how much of his father’s child was he? \nAs Vicky worked to uncover deeply-buried family secrets\, she would find herself slowly unpicking the lingering power of ‘survivor guilt’ on the generations that followed the Holocaust\, and would learn\, via a deathbed confession\, of the existence of a previously unknown sister. \nTogether\, the sisters attempt to come to terms with what had made their father into the deeply flawed\, complex\, yet charismatic man he had always been\, journeying together through grief and heartache towards forgiveness. \nYou can order the book here. \nAbout the speakers:\nVicky Unwin has had a long career in both book and newspaper publishing\, centred round her African roots\, and is currently the chair of Wasafiri Magazine and a Caine Prize Council member. Her first book\, Love and War in the WRNS\, a collection of her mother’s letters home during the Second World War\, was published by History Press in June 2015. She has always been fascinated by family secrets and began researching the story behind The Boy from Boskovice shortly before her father’s death in 2012. Vicky writes extensively about living with cancer at healthylivingwithcancer.co\, and is a Trustee of Transform Drug Policy Foundation campaigning for the decriminalisation of drugs after losing her daughter to a ketamine overdose in 2011. \nSarah Helm is a former Middle East correspondent and diplomatic editor of the Independent. She is the author of If This is a Woman\, Inside Ravensbrück\, Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women. Her first book\, A Life in Secrets\, detailing the life of the secret agent Vera Atkins\, was published in 2005.  Her play Loyalty about the relationship between George Bush and Tony Blair was performed and published in July 2019. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-the-boy-from-boskovice/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210211T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Christine Schmidt\, Suzanne Bardgett\, Dan Stone and others\nWe are delighted to announce the publication of the proceedings of Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Sixth International Conference\, co-edited by Suzanne Bardgett\, Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone. \nThis book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference held in 2018 on the post-Holocaust period\, including ‘displaced persons’\, reception and resettlement\, exiles and refugees\, trials and justice\, reparation and restitution\, and memory and testimony. The chapters highlight new\, transnational approaches and findings based on underused and newly opened archives\, including compensation files of the British government; on historical actors often on the periphery within English-language historiography\, including Romanian and Hungarian survivors; and new approaches such as the spatial history of Drancy\, as well as geographies that have undergone less scrutiny\, for example\, Tehran\, Chile\, Mexico and Cyprus. This volume represents the vibrant and varied state of research on the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nLike the conference in 2018\, it is dedicated to the memory of Professor David Cesarani OBE. \nSpeakers:\nNew Home and Transitional Spaces for Holocaust Survivors in Chile and Mexico\nYael Siman\, Associate Professor\, Department of Social and Political Sciences\, Iberoamericana University\, Mexico and Nancy Nicholls Lopeandía\, Lecturer\, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. \nA Spatial History of Drancy: Architecture\, Appropriation and Memory\nStephanie Hesz-Wood\, Doctoral student\, Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nJews and Their Informal Space in Klaipėda\, 1945–1960\nProf Dr Ruth Leiserowitz\, Deputy Director\, German Historical Institute\, Warsaw. \n  \nAbout the event chairs/co-editors\nChristine Schmidt\nChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London\, UK. She has published essays in Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork (Palgrave\, 2020) and Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present (2020). \nSuzanne Bardgett\nSuzanne Bardgett is Head of Research and Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museums\, UK\, and has been a member of the organizing committee for the Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference since its inception in 2003. She is the author of Wartime London in Paintings (2020). \nDan Stone\nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, UK. He has published sixteen books including Histories of the Holocaust (2010)\, The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (2015) and Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction (2019). \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-proceedings-of-the-sixth-international-conference/
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Event: Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award
DESCRIPTION:David Nott\, Iris Veysey & Lord Daniel Finkelstein\nHans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award 2021: Professor David Nott OBE FRCS\nAward to be presented by Lord Daniel Finkelstein.\nThe recipient of the Hans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award for 2021 is Professor David Nott\, Consultant Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital\, London. \nJewish refugee girls arriving at customs in Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Daily Herald\, 3 December 1938. \nProfessor Nott specialises in vascular and trauma surgery and also performs cancer surgery at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He is an authority in laparoscopic surgery and was the first surgeon to combine laparoscopic and vascular surgery. \nFor the past twenty-five years Nott has taken unpaid leave each year to work for the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières\, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria Relief. He has provided surgical treatment to patients in conflict and catastrophe zones in Bosnia\, Afghanistan\, Sierra Leone\, Liberia\, Ivory Coast\, Chad\, Darfur\, Yemen\, the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Haiti\, Iraq\, Pakistan\, Libya\, Syria\, Central African Republic\, Gaza and Nepal. As well as treating patients affected by conflict and catastrophe and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charitable causes\, Nott teaches advanced surgical skills to local medics and surgeons when he is abroad. In Britain\, he teaches the Surgical Training for the Austere Environment (STAE) course at the Royal College of Surgeons. \nIn 2015\, Professor Nott established the David Nott Foundation with his wife Elly. The Foundation supports surgeons in developing their operating skills for warzones and austere environments. In 2019\, Picador published David’s bestselling memoir\, War Doctor. \nHans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture: Iris Veysey: Refugees: Forced to Flee\nIn her lecture\, Iris Veysey explored a century of refugee experiences\, from Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews and the Kindertransport to the Calais ‘jungle’ and treacherous Mediterranean crossings. \nIris Veysey is Curator\, Art and Contemporary Conflict\, at the Imperial War Museum. She has recently worked on Refugees: Forced to Flee\, on display at the IWM until May 2021. Veysey has previously worked at the Victorian and Albert Museum and the Science Museum. \nHans Albrecht came to Britain on the Kindertransport. The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) strives to advance and promote human rights particularly in relation to children\, equalities\, disability\, children who are refugees and/or fleeing conflict and freedom from persecution on the grounds of race\, ethnicity and faith. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-event-hans-albrecht-foundation-annual-lecture-and-human-rights-award/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210128T180000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Launch Event: Testifying to the Truth Digital Resource and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kangisser-Cohen\, Mark Roseman\, Christine Schmidt and Jenifer Ball\nWe are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of our new digital resource\, Testifying to the Truth. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust\, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated\, by a team of the Library’s volunteers\, into English for the first time. \n \nIn the 1950s\, Dr Eva Reichmann\, the Library’s Director of Research\, embarked on an ambitious effort to collect eyewitness accounts from those who had lived through the Holocaust. Over the course of seven years\, this initiative resulted in the gathering of more than 1\,300 written reports in seven different languages. The launch of the first 380 translated and digitised accounts will see the work started by Dr Reichmann in 1945 made fully accessible to the public. The rest of the 1\,185 testimonies will be released later this year. \nChaired by Dr Toby Simpson\, the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library\, the panellists discussed the history of the collection\, the context of early Holocaust testimonies\, the significance of the collection for scholarship\, and the project of translation: \n\nChristine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Wiener Holocaust Library.\nJenifer Ball\, Translator at The Wiener Holocaust Library.\nSharon Kangisser-Cohen\, Director at Eli and Diana Zborwoski Centre for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust and Editor\, Yad Vashem Studies.\nMark Roseman\, Distinguished Professor of History\, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies\, Adjunct Professor in Germanic Studies. Indiana University.\n\nWe are thankful to the Ministry for Housing\, Communities and Local Government whose support has enabled us to widen the access to this unique collection. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-launch-event-testifying-to-the-truth-digital-resource-and-panel-discussion/
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Talk: New works on British Colonial Violence
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nThis event marks the recent publication of two important contributions to our understanding of violence committed in the British Empire. These works challenge traditional understandings of the extent of colonial violence and the process of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. \nMichelle Gordon’s book\, Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan (Bloomsbury 2020)\, explores the commonalities in colonial warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Gordon highlights the significance of decision-making processes\, communication between London and the periphery and the influence of individual colonial administrators in outbreaks of violence. Michael Taylor’s The Interest – How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (Bodley Head 2020) explores how nearly every leading figure in the British establishment ensured that slavery – which had been outlawed by Parliament in 1807 – survived until 1833. When abolition finally came\, compensation was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders\, entrenching the power of their families to shape modern Britain to this day. \nThis conversation with the authors will explore the themes raised in their books and also examine why the issues of colonial violence and the abolition slavery in the British Empire have been misrepresented in traditional historiography and in British historical memory of the British Empire. \nAbout the speakers:\nDr Michelle Gordon\nDr Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre\, Uppsala University. She currently heads the research project “The ‘Civilised’ Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars”\, funded by the Swedish Research Council. She holds a PhD in History from Royal Holloway\, University of London. Gordon has specific research and teaching expertise in studies of genocide and mass violence\, with a focus on the British Empire. \nPraise for Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’:\n‘A powerful work of historical inquiry’ Professor Dan Stone\, Professor of History\, Royal Holloway \n‘This important book shows that rather than constituting an occasional ‘excess’\, extreme violence was a characteristic trait of Britain’s empire.’ Donald Bloxham\, Richard Pares Professor of History\, University of Edinburgh \nBuy a copy of Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’ here. \nDr Michael Taylor\nDr Taylor is a historian of colonial slavery\, the British Empire and the British Isles. He graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge\, where he earned his PhD – and also won University Challenge. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College\, Oxford\, and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies. \nPraise for The Interest:\n‘Scintillating … gripping … compulsively readable’ Guardian \n‘Fascinating … riveting and first-rate’ The Times \n‘A thoroughly researched and potent historical account’ David Lammy MP \nBuy a copy of The Interest here. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-talk-new-works-on-british-colonial-violence/
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:With special guest Sir Kier Starmer\, Lord Eric Pickles and Rabbi Gordon\nA musical evening in the Łódź Ghetto\, c. 1940-1943. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThe Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 theme asks us to Be the Light in the Darkness. The Wiener Holocaust Library wishes to take this opportunity to draw attention to the incredible testimonies of survivors in our collections. This year’s theme asks us to recognise that the responsibility for education and prevention lies with all of us. As the distortion of the Holocaust has sadly become more widespread\, we have a greater responsibility than ever to face the truth about the nature of genocide and tackle the threat posed by propaganda and hate. \nWe are delighted to announce that the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and local MP for Holborn and St Pancras\, Sir Keir Starmer\, will be joining The Wiener Holocaust Library for an online event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2021. The event will feature readings drawn from the Library’s collections and reflections from The Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles\, Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues\, and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon from the New London Synagogue. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2021/
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