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This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive, including using sources freely available online. The workshop will also feature family research support services available from other partner organisations.
Join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt, who will explore the remarkable, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Fate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims.
This education talk looks at the experiences of different groups within the Soviet POW population and how they were affected by Nazi racial, demographic and economic policies in occupied Eastern Europe.
This virtual panel will bring together speakers in conversation, moderated by Dr Rebecca Jinks, to discuss their foundational and wide-ranging work on interviewing survivors of the Holocaust and genocide.
This virtual panel will discuss how primary source documentation related to the activities of the transnational jihadist terrorist organisation, Islamic State (IS, or ISIS), has been collected, archived and made accessible for research, intelligence and other purposes over the last two decades.
Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust.
This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
Discover and explore a wealth of resources, titles, online access to video testimonies, references, and books in different languages, all in the heart of London, to support your studies and research projects. Focus on histories of peoples and genocide, and see how memory is preserved for future generations in these two original institutions. Open in priority to postgraduate students.
This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series.
This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. On the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, historian Matthias Bjørnlund will join us from Copenhagen to discuss Karen Jeppe’s unique relief and rescue methods, in the broader context of Danish humanitarian relief efforts in the aftermath of the genocide.
Rachel Auerbach was one of the three post-war survivors of the underground Oyneg Shabbes. This book aimed both to commemorate the Jewish fighters who took up arms in the first major act of resistance to the Nazis and to describe the course of their revolt.
Using a fresh approach to testimony collections, Professor Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labour experiences of young Jewish females, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Janine P. Holc will be in conversation about the book with Dr Anna Hájková.
