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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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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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