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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210414T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210407T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210325T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210323T140000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T193000
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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210308T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210308T190000
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Fatherland and the Jews
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the publication of the inaugural title in a collaboration between the Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets\, Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful and German Judaism in Political\, Economic and Cultural Terms mark the first time that Dr Alfred Wiener\, the founder of the Library\, has been published in English. \n\nA sharp and insightful thinker\, Wiener’s writing reveals the critical role played by information and disinformation during the Antisemitic onslaught that followed Germany’s defeat in the First World War. Through tackling issues such as the planned rise of Antisemitism\, the scapegoating of minorities\, and the widespread use of propaganda\, these pamphlets speak as urgently to the contemporary moment as well as providing a window on to the past. \n\n\nTo mark this important publication the Library and JW3 hosted a panel event chaired by Toby Simpson\, director of the Wiener Holocaust Library. The panellists included Alfred Wiener’s grandson\, journalist Daniel Finkelstein\, Professor of Media History Jean Seaton and Professor of Modern Jewish History\, Michael Berkowitz. \n\n\nWatch back now
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-fatherland-and-the-jews/
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Talk: Defiance and Protest. Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Professor Wolf Gruner\nLizi Rosenfeld on a park bench with a sign ‘Only for Aryans’\, August 1938\, Vienna \nPart of the Library’s Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust event series. \nJewish resistance during the Holocaust is largely understood as rare armed group activities in the Nazi-occupied East\, for example\, ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. By contrast\, this talk focused on forgotten individual acts of resistance\, like the case of Hertha Reis\, who protested in plain daylight against the persecution in 1941\, a few months before the mass deportation started in the capital of the Third Reich. She exclaimed in front of the Berlin courthouse “We lost everything. Because of the damned government\, we finally lost our home\, too. This thug Hitler\, the damned government\, the damned people. Just because we are Jews\, we are discriminated against.” \nBased on a new approach and using new sources\, as logbooks of Berlin police precincts\, trial materials from various German cities as well as video testimonies of survivors\, the talk demonstrated how Jewish women and men performed countless acts of resistance in Nazi Germany proper between 1933 and 1945. The examples that this nearly ten-year research unearthed demonstrated that Jews reacted not only to well-known national laws\, but also to anti-Jewish restrictions and violence at the local level. Jewish women and men of all ages and from all educational and professional backgrounds defied Nazi measures or raised their voices in protest. They developed changing response strategies over time: first against Nazi propaganda and exclusionary economic measures\, later against violent local attacks and municipal restrictions as well as the nationwide November pogrom and radical segregationist laws\, and finally against forced labour and deportation. \nThe fact that German Jews protested in public and that so many defied Nazi measures obliterates the common view of passivity on the part of the persecuted. Thus\, this research gives agency back to ordinary Jews in extraordinary circumstances. Many German Jews evolve as historical actors who resisted oppression. However\, their courageous acts still wait to be incorporated into the general narrative of the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany. \nAbout the speaker:\nWolf Gruner\nProfessor Gruner holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies\, is Professor of History at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles since 2008 and is the Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research since 2014. \nHe is the author of ten books on the Holocaust\, among them Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims\, with Cambridge University Press (paperback 2008). His prizewinning book The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives\, German Policies\, Jewish Responses (Berghahn 2019) was originally published in German with Wallstein (2016). It was translated into Czech (2019) and is forthcoming in Hebrew with Yad Vasehm (2021). Most recently\, Gruner coedited: With Steven Ross\, New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years\, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (Purdue University Press 2019); and with Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan\, Resisting Persecution. Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust (Berghahn 2020). \nHe is currently finishing the manuscript of an exciting book about forgotten acts of individual defiance\, protest and resistance of German and Austrian Jews during the Holocaust. \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.\n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-talk-defiance-and-protest-forgotten-individual-jewish-resistance-in-nazi-germany/
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