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SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our Recovery and Repair Programme of events taking place in Cardiff. Find out more about the events programme here. \nThis 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. \nThe workshop will also feature speakers from family research support services available from other partner organisations\, including Rhian Diggins of the Glamorgan Archives\, Beryl Evans from the National Library Wales\, and Laura Henley Harrison  of the Jewish History Association of South Wales. \nParticipants will have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers. Bring your research questions! \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-and-repair-family-history-research-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Glamorgan Archives\, Clos Parc Morgannwg\, Cardiff\, CF11 8AW
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T200000
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SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair - Fate Unknown Exhibition Curator Talk & Drinks Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our Recovery and Repair Programme of events taking place in Cardiff. Find out more about the events programme here. \nJoin 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. \n\n\n\nThey will be joined by Dr Tetyana Pavlush\, Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University\, where they will discuss the development of the exhibition and reflect on some of the issues and themes it highlights. \n\n\n\nThe Curator Talk will be followed by a drinks reception\, providing an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown travelling exhibition and meet the co- curators of the exhibition.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-and-repair-fate-unknown-exhibition-curator-talk-drinks-reception/
LOCATION:Glamorgan Archives\, Clos Parc Morgannwg\, Cardiff\, CF11 8AW
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T170000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Forgotten Victims: The Mass Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War (POWs) During the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:British intelligence report on interviews with Soviet POWs who had been forced to serve in German forces\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections  \nOn 22 June 1941\, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa\, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Most historians regard this as the start of the Holocaust and the mass murder of European Jewry. SS Einsatzgruppen units began shooting tens of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews and Roma and Sinti as well as hundreds of political officers (Commissars) in the Soviet Army. \nWithin three months  over a million Soviet soldiers had been taken prisoner but no provision was made for their proper treatment as required by the Geneva Convention. Thousands were shot and beaten to death whilst two million were deliberately starved to death by March 1942 in the wholly inadequate POW camps provided. It is estimated that of 5.7 million Soviet POWs\, up to 3.3 million died between 1941 and 1945 in captivity. \nThis may well have represented the largest mass murder of a particular group in terms of deaths per day (during 1941-2) in human history. \nThis 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. It also looks at the significance of these events in relation to the Holocaust and the questions and issues they raise. \nWith the Library’s Education Officer\, Dr Peter Morgan \nThis session is suitable for those studying the following: \nKS3 & KS4 History: \n\nAQA: Germany\, 1890 – 1945: Democracy and Dictatorship\nEdexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany\, 1918 – 1939\nOCR (History A): Germany\, 1925-1955: The People and The State\nOCR (History B): Living under Nazi Rule\, 1933 – 1945\n\nKS5 History: \n\nAQA: Democracy and Nazism: Germany\, 1918 – 1945\nEdexcel: Germany and West Germany\, 1918 – 1989\nOCR: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919 – 1963\n\nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-forgotten-victims-the-mass-murder-of-soviet-prisoners-of-war-pows-during-the-second-world-war/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: On Interviewing and Listening to Survivors
DESCRIPTION:The room where Dr Becky Jinks conducted interviews with survivors of genocidal captivity. Khanke\, Northern Iraq. © Claire Thomas  \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nThis 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. Reflecting on themes in the Library’s current exhibition\, the panel will explore different contexts in which survivors have ‘testified’ and in which their experiences are told and heard. \nHow do different contexts impact how survivors’ stories are shaped\, retold and received? What is the role of the interviewer in shaping these accounts? What impact do interviews and ‘testimony’ have on the survivors themselves\, the relationships between interviewers and interviewees\, and our understanding of the historical events? How do interviews and ‘testimony’ impact the lives of survivors\, the relationships between interviewers and interviewees\, and our understanding of these events more generally? \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Bea Lewkowicz is an orał historian\, filmmaker and photographer. Her work focusses on identity\, displacement\, trauma and loss\, often through the lens of her interviews with Holocaust survivors and refugees. She is the director and co-founder of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive and Sephardi Voices UK. Bea has curated exhibitions\, such as ‘Continental Britons’\, ‘Double Exposure’\, ‘Still in Our Hands’ and has directed many testimony-based films. She was one of the academic advisor for the Kindertransport exhibition ‘I said Auf Wiedersehen’\, displayed at the German Bundestag in 2024. Among her publications are ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History\, Memory\, and Identity (2006)\, ‘This is the Story of my Life’: An Interview with Julius Carlebach’ (2020)\, and Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (2022). www.bealewkowiczarchive.com. \nHenry (Hank) Greenspan\, Ph. D.\, is an Emeritus Lecturer IV in the Residential College affiliated with the Social Theory and Practice program. Greenspan is a psychologist\, oral historian\, and playwright at the University of Michigan who has been interviewing\, teaching\, and writing about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s. Rather than single “testimonies”\, Greenspan has pursued multiple conversations with the same survivors over months\, years\, even decades.  That practice\, which  centers on collaborative exploration rather than witness declaration\,  is most fully described in his  On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony. \nAnika Walke is Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. She was recently appointed as the inaugural Askwith Family Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Carnegie Mellon University\, effective August 2025. Her book\, Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Oxford University Press\, 2015) shows how the first generation of Soviet Jews experienced the Nazi genocide and how they have remembered it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. A current research project is devoted to the long aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II in Belarus. From 2014 to 2022\, Walke served as Co-PI of “The Holocaust Ghettos Project: Reintegrating Victims and Perpetrators through Places and Events\,” an NEH-funded endeavor of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative to develop a Historical GIS of Nazi-era ghettos in Eastern Europe. At the moment\, Dr. Walke is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at Freiburg University (Germany). \nModerated by: \nDr Rebecca Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She is the author of Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?\, which examines the ways in which representations of the Holocaust have influenced how other genocides are understood and represented\, focusing on the ‘canonical’ cases of genocide – Armenia\, Cambodia\, Bosnia\, and Rwanda. Her current research project\, ‘Genocidal Captivity’\, is funded by the AHRC and explores the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women genocide survivors in 1915 and 2014. \nChaired by: \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. Her current project focuses on a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-panel-on-interviewing-and-listening-to-survivors/
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity,Genocide,HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Archiving ISIS
DESCRIPTION:Islamic State Select Worldwide Activity Map\, Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, A Zelin  \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nThis 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. \nChaired by co-curator Dr Becky Jinks\, the panel will discuss the myriad practical and legal issues of collecting IS-related materials\, as well as the ethics of archiving and making accessible extremely sensitive materials that relate to unfolding events. \nAbout the Speakers:\nDr Leyla Ferman is the Co-Founder of Yazidi Justice Committee and Director of Women for Justice. She is the coordinator of FERMAN\, a documentation and education project\, at the Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in Germany. Before\, she was working as an advisor to the co-Mayors at Mardin Metropolitan Municipality. \nDr Devorah Margolin is the Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Fellow at The Washington Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Her research primarily focuses on terrorism governance\, terrorism financing\, the role of propaganda and strategic communications\, countering/preventing violent extremism\, and the role of women and gender in violent extremism. She was also the Project Manager for the ISIS Files Digital Repository\, a collection of over 15\,000 pages of original ISIS materials found in Nineveh Province in Iraq by the New York Times. \nDr. Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, where he also directs the Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map project. Zelin is also a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University\, Founder of the widely acclaimed website Jihadology\, and a contributing writer for War on the Rock’s Adversarial newsletter. He is author of the book Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad (Columbia University Press) and is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Heart of the Believers: A History of Syrian Jihadism. Zelin’s research focuses on Sunni jihadi groups in the Levant\, North Africa\, the Sahel\, and Afghanistan as well as the trends of jihadi governance\, online mobilization\, and foreign fighting. He has conducted field research in Tunisia\, Turkey\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, and Israel. Zelin has also testified and served as an expert witness in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and with the Department of Justice in federal judicial terrorism trials. \nChaired by: \nDr Rebecca Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She is the author of Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?\, which examines the ways in which representations of the Holocaust have influenced how other genocides are understood and represented\, focusing on the ‘canonical’ cases of genocide – Armenia\, Cambodia\, Bosnia\, and Rwanda. Her current research project\, ‘Genocidal Captivity’\, is funded by the AHRC and explores the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women genocide survivors in 1915 and 2014. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-panel-archiving-isis/
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T170000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Post War Categorization(s): Humanitarian Aid Organizations and Displaced Persons (1945-1951)
DESCRIPTION:Helen Bamber (1925 – 2014) was a British psychotherapist and human rights activist who worked for the Jewish Relief Unit in post-war Germany  \nPart of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust.\nUpon arrival in post-war Germany\, humanitarian aid organizations had to take over the care of millions Displaced Persons from military authorities. It became obvious\, that the categorization “Displaced Person” was too broad to describe and handle the diverse group of DPs. The legal term did neither take into consideration the different aspects of vulnerability nor their agency in planning their future after what they had been through. \nThe humanitarian aid organizations – from UNRRA to smaller groups – took part in multiple re-classifications of DPs in subcategories\, such as Jewish DPs or Hard-Core DPs\, which eventually resulted in the term refugee. In her dissertation Christina Wirth analyzes the different agents and practices that took part in categorizing people in transit between 1945 and 1951\, including the individual’s agency and self-classification. \nIn her presentation Christina Wirth will introduce the categorization practices with a case study about the small village Kaunitz in Westphalia\, Germany\, where approximately 800 Jewish women were liberated from a death march and placed in German civilian \nhomes by the liberating American army forces. After the Americans left\, the Jewish Relief Unit as well as the officials of the British Occupation Zone of Germany and the German major were responsible to take care of the DPs in Kaunitz. It will become apparent how the different agents tried to influence the categorization of these 800 women and how categorizations matter\, since they are key for attesting political rights and influence to people in transit. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristina Wirth is a Ph.D. student at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” Mainz\, Germany\, academic staff at the Leibniz Institute for European History\, and is currently the USC Shoah Foundation’s first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies. She studied history and German philology as well as educational studies at Georg-August-University Goettingen and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. \nVirtual seminar guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-post-war-categorizations-humanitarian-aid-organizations-and-the-displaced-persons-1945-1951/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea,Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Film Event\, Part II: Suzanne Khardalian\, Inside Her\, Inside Me
DESCRIPTION:This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Content warning: Please note that this film contains descriptions of sexual violence.  \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition for a special two-part film screening event and QA with the film’s director\, Suzanne Khardalian. In Part II\, Inside Her\, Inside Me (68 min) will be screened. \nSuzanne Khardalian will join the event via Zoom to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. \nSwedish Suzanne Khardalian’s film tells the stories of young Yezidi women in southern Germany. They were brought there through a unique project of the German federal state Baden-Württemberg\, which received 1100 young Yazidi women with the help of the Kurdish local government in northern Iraq. This was a secret project\, but finally Suzanne managed to reach out to Yazidi women in Germany. For nearly three years\, she followed Ghason\, Dalal and Lamia closely\, recording their experiences held in ISIS captivity. The film is told through their point of view. \nAbout the Speakers \nSuzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until 1988 when she started to work with films. She holds a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School at Tuft’s University and contributes with articles to different journals. She has directed a dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and the United States. \nDr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. The Genocidal Captivity exhibition\, which she has co-curated with Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library)\, forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors\, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-film-event-part-ii-suzanne-khardalian-inside-her-inside-me/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T150000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Archive & Library discovery day with the Armenian Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Archive Discovery Day with the Armenian Institute\, organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nDiscover 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. \nArchive Discovery Day Timings \n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Introduction to Armenian Institute Archive and Library. This will include a presentation from the AI’s Archivist Kolya Abramsky and Librarians Eddie Arnavoudian and Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian. \n12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Grab some lunch and head over to the Wiener Holocaust Library (24 min walk/19 min public transport). \n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Introduction to the USC Shoah Foundation Archive at the Wiener Holocaust Library with Dr. Becky Jinks. This session will focus on Armenian oral history testimonies. You will also have the opportunity to view the current exhibition\, Genocidal Captivity: Re-telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women. \nPlease note\, that for the session at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, we’d recommend bringing a laptop and headphones if you can.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/archive-library-discovery-day-with-the-armenian-institute/
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Film Event\, Part I: Suzanne Khardalian\, Grandma’s Tattoos
DESCRIPTION:This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Content warning: Please note that this film contains descriptions of sexual violence.  \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition for a special two-part film screening event and QA with the film’s director\, Suzanne Khardalian. In Part I\, Grandma’s Tattoos (58 min) will be screened. \nSuzanne Khardalian will join the event via Zoom to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. \nGrandma’s Tattoos is a personal film about what happened to many of the Armenian women during the 1915 genocide. Author and filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian makes a personal journey into her own family’s history to investigate the truth behind the experiences of Khanoum\, her late grandmother. The film is like a ghost story; a mystery\, a taboo. No one wants to tell the whole story. In order to bring the pieces of the puzzle together the film moves between different scenes\, from today’s welfare Sweden all the way to Suzanne Khardalian’s childhood in Beirut. Through travels to Armenia\, Lebanon\, Syria and USA we also meet the children of other tattooed Armenian women and understand that their trauma was common\, that rape and sexual violence was a “typical” fate for all those women who survived the ordeal. Grandma’s Tattoos is a story where the worlds of reality and fantasy become so intermingled that it becomes difficult to tell them apart. \nAbout the Speakers \nSuzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until 1988 when she started to work with films. She holds a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School at Tuft’s University and contributes with articles to different journals. She has directed a dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and the United States. \nDr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. The Genocidal Captivity exhibition\, which she has co-curated with Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library)\, forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors\, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-film-event-part-i-suzanne-khardalian-grandmas-tattoos/
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20240305T091528Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Event: Saving the Survivors: Danish relief workers and Armenian women genocide survivors in the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Karen Jeppe’s Rescue Home\, Aleppo\, mid-1920s. Photograph provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation\, Yerevan\, Armenia.  \nZumroot Godjanian\, from Urfa\, c.1924. Photograph provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation\, Yerevan\, Armenia.  \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person. \n*Change of speaker* \nThis talk will now be delivered by Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition. \nBetween 1921 and 1930\, 1\,880 Armenian survivors who had escaped genocidal captivity were taken in by the Danish relief worker Karen Jeppe\, who ran a Rescue Home on the outskirts of Aleppo. Most stayed a few months\, some just days\, some years\, until they located their relatives or had learnt a trade and could earn a living. \nFor each survivor she took in\, Karen Jeppe recorded their names\, ages\, place of birth\, parents’ names\, photography\, and a short version of their story: ten of these stories of survival are featured in our exhibition Genocidal Captivity. \nTo commemorate 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. \nBjørnlund’s discussion will be followed by a very special event: the reading of a play\, Sorrow is Turned into Joy\, written and performed by a group of Armenian women survivors in 1924\, in Thessaloniki\, for visiting Danish humanitarians. The play addresses their recent experiences of genocide and loss. The reading is directed by the distinguished theatre and opera director Seta White. \nAbout the Speaker:\nMatthias Bjørnlund is a historian and genocide scholar specializing in the Armenian genocide and related issues. He has\, written a comprehensive analysis and overview of the Armenian genocide\, a monograph on women relief workers and missionaries before\, during\, and after 1915\, and chapters on sexual violence during genocide. He was a university lecturer for a number of years\, and is currently working as an academic consultant for Danish Institute for International Studies. \nSeta White is a theatre and opera director\, theatre maker and actor. Trained at Bretton Hall University College – B.A. (Hons) Theatre Arts – there is a strong emphasis in multidisciplinary work throughout Seta’s work\, and she has devised work across dance\, music and drama\, most often in highly collaborative environments. Seta is particularly drawn to developing work with people who otherwise do not have a voice\, to find their stories & discover how they want their stories told.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-event-saving-the-survivors-danish-relief-workers-and-armenian-women-genocide-survivors-in-the-1920s/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity,Genocide,HGRP
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Jewish Revolt by Rachel Auerbach\, with Professor Antony Polonsky
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Auerbach (1903 – 1976) was born in the Galician city of Łanowce\, and in the 1920s studied philosophy and psychology in Lviv. She then moved to Warsaw and worked as a journalist. In the 1940s\, Auerbach ran a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto\, and was involved in the creation of Emanuel Ringelblum’s underground archive Oyneg Shabes (‘The Joy of Sabbath’) in the ghetto. She witnessed the 1943 uprising\, and managed to escape\, surviving in hiding. \nAuerbach wrote Der Yidisher Oyfshtand: Varshe 1943 (The Jewish Revolt: Warsaw 1943) in 1948. it was first published in Yiddish in Warsaw. This book has now been translated and published in English for the first time. \nRachel 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. \nAuerbach produced a large corpus of work on the fate of the Jews under Nazi occupation\, including Yizker\, a moving lament for the Jews of Warsaw written in 1943\, almost none of which has been translated into English. It is our hope that its publication will stimulate interest in the work of this important writer. \nAbout the Speaker\nAntony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of Global Education Outreach Project of  the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3\, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford\, 2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014)\, which has been translated into French\, Polish and Lithuanian. \nIn 1999\, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010)\, the Jagiellonian University (2014) and the Polish University Abroad (Polski Uniwersytet na obczyźnie\, 2022). \n  \nThe re-publication of The Jewish Revolt was supported by The Jewish Brand. The Jewish Brand is a charity that is building with world-beating web 3 technology a world-wide Jewish community platform. It’s a dynamic hub uniting global Jewish communities through creativity. Via new tech\, social media\, streaming\, and an interactive marketplace\, we advance Jewish culture\, promote unity\, and combat antisemitism. Join us as we make history\, leaving an indelible mark on Jewish heritage and beyond.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-jewish-revolt-by-rachel-auerbach-with-professor-antony-polonsky/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau\, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in late 1940\, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec\, Poland\, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland\, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive\, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at textile work for twelve hours a day\, lived in barracks with little food\, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943\, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps\, where they were held until liberation in 1945. \nUsing 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. Incorporating new source material\, the book carefully constructs survivors’ stories while also taking a theoretical approach\, one alert to socially constructed\, intersectional systems of exploitation and harm. The Weavers of Trautenau elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speakers\nJanine P. Holc is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism: Polish-Jewish Relations Today. The Weavers of Trautenau was a finalist for a US National Jewish Book Award. \nDr Anna Hájková is a Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK\, and the author of the celebrated monograph\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (OUP 2020). \n \nVirtual Event guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-weavers-of-trautenau-janine-holc-in-conversation-with-anna-hajkova/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: From Victimized to Victorious: The Marxist and Zionist Choreographies of Yehudit Arnon\, in the Framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary in the Immediate Post-War Period
DESCRIPTION:Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nFor her doctoral dissertation Gdalit Neuman researched the earliest dance repertoire of Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s founding artistic director\, the late Yehudit Arnon\, in the framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary in the immediate post-war period. \nThis was but one aspect of the relief and rehabilitation provided to Hungarian Jewish children by Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust following their significant and successful efforts to save Hungary’s Jews. Through dance reconstruction techniques\, personal accounts and stunning photography\, in this talk Neuman will illuminate some of the incredible and often less-known story of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary during\, and especially\, after the Holocaust; from resistance to resilience\, to recovery and renewal. \nAbout the Speaker\nGdalit Neuman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto\, where she completed both her BFA and MA in dance\, and where she was on faculty for five years. Her writings and research on dance and Zionism have been published in The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance\, Performance Matters online journal\, Dance International Magazine\, The Dance Current magazine\, as well as Dance Today and Rokdim-Nirkoda magazines in Israel. \nVirtual seminar guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-from-victimized-to-victorious-the-marxist-and-zionist-choreographies-of-yehudit-arnon-in-the-framework-of-hashomer-hatzair-zionist-youth-movement-in-hungary-in-the-immediate-po/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition Talk: Sinjar Destroyed: Photographs and stories of the aftermath of ISIS genocide in northern Iraq
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nAlmost a decade since the so-called Islamic State committed genocide against the Yezidi population of Iraq\, thousands of displaced Yezidis remain in crowded camps dotted across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. With little to no hope of returning to their destroyed homeland of Sinjar\, those in the camps face increasingly limited access to resources\, education\, and healthcare\, while their struggle continues to obtain justice and accountability for the crimes committed against them. \nSince December 2016\, photojournalist Claire Thomas has been covering stories related to the devastation ISIS wrought in northern Iraq\, the human cost of the conflict to defeat the terror group\, and the genocide and mass displacement of the Yezidi population. Her work also explores the challenges Yezidis face in returning to Sinjar\, from the physical destruction of their homes and communities to the perceived threat from ISIS-affiliated families living in Sinjar. \nIn this talk\, Claire will share a selection of her most impactful images from Iraq and discuss some of the stories of the women\, men\, and children she’s met and photographed since 2016. She will highlight the challenges of documenting survivors’ stories and covering sensitive issues with the understanding and empathy needed to preserve the dignity of those sharing such harrowing experiences. \nAbout the Speaker \nClaire Thomas is an acclaimed photojournalist and fine art photographer from Wales\, currently based between the UK and Egypt. Her focus on photojournalism spans critical subjects such as political and military conflicts\, human rights\, and humanitarian and environmental crises. From refugee camps in Europe to the frontlines against ISIS in Iraq\, Claire has contributed impactful photo essays to leading global newspapers\, magazines\, and news agencies. \nHer work earned recognition at the 2023 Amnesty International UK Media Awards for its profound impact\, specifically for coverage in northeast Syria. Claire’s photography has garnered accolades\, including UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards\, Press Gazette British Journalism Awards for Photojournalist of the Year\, and inclusion in Women Photograph’s 2019 Year in Pictures. Claire has also served as a judge for various international photography competitions. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/sinjar-destroyed-photographs-and-stories-of-the-aftermath-of-isis-genocide-in-northern-iraq/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: Reconfiguring Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire - Displacement and Relief in Turkestan\, 1914-1924
DESCRIPTION:To the starving Volga Region from Red Turkestan’ (Tashkent\, 1921). Source: Russian Perspectives on Islam  \nPart of our new seminar series\, Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nDuring the First World War\, nearly 300.000 refugees and prisoners of war were displaced to Turkestan\, which brought the local population into direct contact with a conflict that was being waged thousands of miles away in Russia’s Western borderlands and on the Caucasus front. After the end of the war and the collapse of the Russian Empire\, Central Asia once again became host to refugees fleeing catastrophe in Soviet Russia. In 1921\, when famine struck the Volga region\, the Soviet government transported thousands of people to remote parts of the nascent USSR. \nThis presentation will examine efforts to provide relief to displaced persons in Central Asia during the First World War and the early 1920s\, in order to understand how it was reconfigured under the conditions of the new revolutionary state. What practices of relief survived the collapse of the old regime? How were these adapted by the Bolsheviks to fit the political context of early 1920s? What can this tell us about how the Red Cross was thought to contribute to building the new\, socialist order? \nMore broadly\, it will explore how the nature of humanitarianism changed in this period. While the domestic the activities of voluntary organizations such as the Russian/Soviet Red Cross act as a starting point\, my project also explores the transnational connections created by humanitarian aid and hopes to integrate the Russian/Soviet case into the wider literature on the history of humanitarianism\, which still tends to neglect non-western perspectives. \nAbout the Speaker:\nHanna Matt is a PhD candidate at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Her dissertation examines humanitarian relief in late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union by considering different groups of displaced persons\, including refugees\, prisoners of war\, and victims of famine in Central Asia. In 2022/23 she spent time in Tashkent as an affiliated visiting researcher at the History Institute of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. She is also the postgraduate representative for the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies’ Eurasian Regions Study group and a co-editor for the UK-based digital histories project ‘Peripheral Histories?’. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-reconfiguring-humanitarianism-in-the-margins-of-empire-displacement-and-relief-in-turkestan-1914-1924/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Curators in Conversation: Genocidal Captivity\, Rebecca Jinks with Christine Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt\, curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition\, Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women\, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition and their curatorial choices. The discussion will include an overview of Dr Jinks’ research project\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, to analyse the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors in 1915 and 2014\, as well as reflections on challenges and choices they made in presenting this research as an exhibition. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Rebecca Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She is the author of Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?\, which examines the ways in which representations of the Holocaust have influenced how other genocides are understood and represented\, focusing on the ‘canonical’ cases of genocide – Armenia\, Cambodia\, Bosnia\, and Rwanda. Her current research project\, ‘Genocidal Captivity’\, is funded by the AHRC and explores the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women genocide survivors in 1915 and 2014. \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. Her current project focuses on a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-curators-in-conversation-genocidal-captivity-rebecca-jinks-with-christine-schmidt/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Safe Haven with Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood to speak about their new book\, Safe Haven: The UK’s Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice\, for its new academic book series. \nThe controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed\, and the expense of some £11 million\, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. \nDrawing on previously unavailable archival documents\, transcripts of interviews with suspects\, and disclosures by senior lawyers and policer offers in the War Crimes Units (WCUs)\, in parallel with the history of bungled investigations in the 1940s\, Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States\, Germany\, and Australia\, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries\, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together\, the authors argue that these — including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial — meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. \nThe authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how\, if at all\, do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever-growing awareness of the Holocaust\, represented by memorialization and education? In so doing\, Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law\, history\, and truth. \nAbout the Speakers \n Jon Silverman was a BBC news journalist for twenty-six years. He was a correspondent in Paris (1987—1989) and spent thirteen years (1989—2002) as Home Affairs Correspondent. In 1996\, he was named Sony ‘Radio Journalist of the Year’ for his reports for the ‘Today’ programme (Radio 4) on the UK’s Nazi war crimes inquiries. He has been a research professor at the University of Bedfordshire since 2007 where he has focused on the media and justice in post-conflict states. He has written numerous journal articles\, mainly relating to research work in West and East Africa and the involvement of the International Criminal Court. \nRobert Sherwood was an operational Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police Service\, retiring in 2003. Having obtained an Honours Degree in Law in 1993 he returned to university in 2011 (Royal Holloway\, University of London) and obtained a MA in Holocaust Studies with a distinction in his dissertation comparing the UK War Crimes Team to the US War Crimes Teams. This ignited his interest in the subject of war crimes\, leading him to undertake research for a doctorate in the UK War Crimes Team since 1945\, receiving the doctorate in March 2020. He is now semi-retired\, concentrating on academic pursuits. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-safe-haven-with-jon-silverman-and-robert-sherwood/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Frank Trentmann - “Out of the Darkness: The Germans from 1942 to the Present”
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism . \nGermany today is undergoing a crisis of identity. The Russian attack on Ukraine in February 2022 prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz to announce a “Zeitenwende”\, an era of change\, but Germany’s place in the world remains unclear. \nHamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023 were followed by declarations of firm solidarity with Israel from the German government and all parties but also by a dramatic rise in anti-semitism and a lack of empathy within German society. \nIn this talk\, the historian Frank Trentmann draws on his new book Out of the Darkness to put current developments in historical perspective. Through this book Trentmann seeks to answer a central question: How have the Germans changed since 1942 and why? And who are they now? \nAbout the speaker: Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck\, University of London\, and at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of Empire of Things and Free Trade Nation\, was a Moore Scholar at Caltech and has been awarded the Whitfield Prize\, the Austrian Science Book Prize\, the Humboldt Prize for Research and the 2023 Bochum Historians’ Prize. He grew up in Hamburg and lives in London.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-frank-trentmann-out-of-the-darkness-the-germans-from-1942-to-the-present/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: What did ordinary Germans know about the Holocaust?
DESCRIPTION:A joint education event with the German History Society. \nFor many years\, it was assumed and accepted that most ordinary Germans did not know about the events of the Holocaust until 1945\, until the liberation of the camps forced them to confront the evidence with their own eyes.  In recent years scholars have challenged this claim on a number of levels\, in ways that now suggest the Holocaust was actually the open secret of broad sections of German society.  This workshop introduces participants to the kinds of evidence that historians can use to assess Germans’ knowledge of the unfolding mass murder and asks what is at stake in this shift of interpretation. \nAbout the speaker \nNeil Gregor is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southampton and director of the Parkes Institute. He has published widely on diverse aspects of Nazi Germany\, including Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) and Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past (2009)\, both of which won the Wiener Library’s Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History\, and How to Read Hitler (2014). His book on The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-what-did-ordinary-germans-know-about-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20231218T114740Z
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SUMMARY:Online Book Talk: A “Jewish Marshall Plan”\, Laura Hobson Faure in conversation with Daniel Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this online event with Prof Hobson Faure in conversation with Dr Daniel Lee as part of our new academic book events series. In the US National Jewish Book Award Winner\, A Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan: the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France\, Lau­ra Hob­son Fau­re ana­lyses the post­war encounter between Amer­i­can Jews and the French Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in the after­math of the Holo­caust. \nThe judges of the National Jewish Book Week said: \n“Uti­liz­ing sources from six­teen archives in France\, Israel\, and the Unit­ed States\, Hob­son Fau­re crafts a metic­u­lous­ly detailed transna­tion­al social his­to­ry of the inter­ac­tion between Amer­i­can Jews asso­ci­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly with the JDC (Joint Dis­tri­b­u­tion Com­mit­tee) and the US Army that high­lights the vast sums of phil­an­thropic assis­tance that char­ac­ter­ized the Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan\, based in deeply held feel­ings of transna­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty\, which were nonethe­less tan­gled in com­plex social and polit­i­cal dynam­ics. \nHob­son Faure’s painstak­ing approach to archival research leaves almost no page unturned\, incor­po­rat­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion\, oral his­to­ry\, press accounts\, mem­oirs\, and more to craft an inno­v­a­tive\, indeed path-break­ing\, his­to­ry of the post­war recon­struc­tion of the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty in France and the lead­ing role played by the JDC\, in a work that will sure­ly become the new stan­dard in the field.” \nLaura Hobson Faure is a full professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1\, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life during the 20th century.  She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (Armand Colin\, 2013 in French; Indiana University Press\, 2022) which won a National Jewish Book award and will soon publish Rescue: The Story of Kindertransport to France and America. She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin\, 2014) and Enfants en guerre. « Sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle (éditions CNRS\, 2023). \nDr Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. His first book\, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime\, 1940–42 (OUP\, 2014) explored the coexistence between young French Jews and the Vichy regime. His second book\, The SS Officer’s Armchair (Jonathan Cape\, 2020)\, examines the life of a low-ranking SS officer from Stuttgart whose personal documents were recently discovered sewn into the cushion of an armchair. He is working on a history of the Jews of Tunisia during the Second World War\, and is also the Principal Investigator on a British Academy GCRF Sustainable Development Programme project entitled\, “Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia”. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-a-jewish-marshall-plan-laura-hobson-faure-in-conversation-with-daniel-lee/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240222T170000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20230821T094330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151213Z
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: Reading Novels on the Cattle Cars: American Humanitarian Relief in the Internment Camps of Unoccupied France\, 1940-42
DESCRIPTION:Deportation of Jews to the Gurs concentration camp in France\, Courtesy Yad Vashem  \nPart of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nDuring the Second World War\, a coalition of international aid organizations provided important humanitarian aid to the Jewish and non-Jewish internees in the internment camps of Unoccupied France from 1939 onward. That humanitarian aid extended through the summer and autumn of 1942\, when the deportations to Auschwitz via Drancy began. \nThe humanitarians pleaded with Vichy officials\, including Marshal Pétain\, to stop the deportations; when that was unsuccessful\, they gave the deportees food\, water\, and books for the train journey; took their belongings and money for safekeeping; and transmitted their final words to loved ones in the United States. \nThis talk will discuss the on-the-ground actions taken by the humanitarians during the deportations and will probe the darkest\, most fraught aspect of their work that summer: the fact that several humanitarians were forced to decide who was spared from deportation—and who was not. In doing so\, this talk will also explore the category of “Holocaust relief\,” and how this category can help us better discuss humanitarianism and rescue during the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speaker:\nMeghan Riley is an advanced doctoral candidate at Indiana University. She is an historian of the Holocaust\, Europe\, and France\, and is especially interested in the intersection of humanitarianism and the Holocaust\, which her dissertation explores. During the 2017-2018 academic year she was a Fulbright Fellow in France\, and from 2017 to 2019 she was a Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies. She has participated in the Global Humanitarianism Research Academy and the Auschwitz Jewish Studies Fellows Program. Her doctoral work has spanned twelve archives in four countries and has been supported by the American Academy of Jewish Research as well by multiple departments and programs at Indiana University. \nVirtual seminar guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-reading-novels-on-the-cattle-cars-american-humanitarian-relief-in-the-internment-camps-of-unoccupied-france-1940-42/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240212T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20231128T152147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151213Z
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SUMMARY:Online Event: The Impact of the Israel – Hamas War\, with Natasha Hausdorff and Ben M. Freeman
DESCRIPTION:An Association of Jewish Refugees 3G event.\nPlease join us for this fascinating discussion between Natasha Hausdorff and Ben M. Freeman\, chaired by Michael Newman. \nNatasha Hausdorff is a Barrister and expert commentator on international law\, including the law of armed conflict\, foreign affairs and national security policy. She holds law degrees from Oxford and Tel Aviv Universities and was a Fellow in the National Security Law Programme at Columbia Law School in New York. Natasha previously worked for American law firm Skadden Arps\, in London and Brussels\, and clerked for the President of the Israeli Supreme Court\, Chief Justice Miriam Naor\, in Jerusalem. She voluntarily serves as the legal director of UK Lawyers For Israel Charitable Trust. \nBen M. Freeman is Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement\, a leader\, thinker\, and educator\, he is the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. Educating\, inspiring and empowering\, his work focuses on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred. A Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years\, Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against Jew-hate. Voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young ViZionaries list by the Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA. He is also a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress\, a Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy and a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. \nMichael Newman OBE is the grandson of a Holocaust refugee\, and Chief Executive Officer of the AJR. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-event-the-impact-of-the-israel-hamas-war-with-natasha-hausdorff-ben-freeman/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240208T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20231206T160056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151213Z
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SUMMARY:Online Book talk: Michael Lipkin\, translator of An Ordinary Youth\, by Walter Kempowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the seminal All For Nothing\, comes An Ordinary Youth: an astonishing autobiographical novel and a chilling exploration of how one family adjusted to life under the Nazis. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library for a talk by the translator of Walter Kempowski’s important work. Growing up in Rostock\, in the north of Germany\, Kempowski had a comfortable upbringing. But\, as the country rolled toward war\, the attitudes of his teachers\, peers and family began to slide\, and it wasn’t long before the roar of falling bombs\, charged silences and mounting intolerance begin to puncture Walter’s carefree youth. \nFollowing the Kempowski family from the months before the outbreak of war through to the fall of Berlin\, An Ordinary Youth is the fascinating story of an ordinary childhood in extraordinary times. All the while\, the horrors of Nazism loom in the peripheries – communicated in furtive looks or hushed conversations – running alongside the Kempowski family’s daily life. \nWritten in a richly layered choir of voices – referencing songs\, advertisements\, literature\, films and political slogans of the time – it weaves an impressionistic\, expansive and hugely evocative portrait of war-time Germany\, and reveals the many forms that complicity can take. A bestseller upon publication in Germany\, it remains one of the most successful and acclaimed works by this leading post-war writer. \nAbout the author\nWalter Kempowski (1929 – 2007) was one of Germany’s most important post-war writers\, known for his acclaimed collection of first-hand accounts of the Second World War\, including Swansong 1945. He is also the author of many novels\, including Homeland and All For Nothing\, which was a bestseller in both Germany and the UK. \nAbout the speaker\nMichael Lipkin is a writer\, translator\, and professor of German literature. He was born in Riga and came to New York City with his family as refugees from the Soviet Union in 1989\, thanks to the efforts of the Hebrew International Aid Society. He received his Ph.D at Columbia University and currently teaches in the Department of German at Hamilton College\, where his work focuses on literary realism as a lived practice and form of life. His writing and criticism has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S.\, the U.K.\, and Germany\, including for the Times Literary Supplement\, The New Left Review\, The Nation\, The Paris Review\, and the Merkur.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-book-talk-michael-lipkin-translator-of-an-ordinary-youth-by-walter-kempowski/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240206T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240206T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20240108T140310Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: I Seek a Kind Person\, Julian Borger
DESCRIPTION:In 1938\, Jewish families were scrambling to get out Vienna. In desperation\, children were advertised in the Manchester Guardian. The right words in the right order could mean the difference between life and death. \nI Seek a Kind Person: My Father\, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped them Escape the Holocaust is a powerful and personal investigative memoir of survival and loss\, spanning generations within families shaped by the long shadow of history. \nIn 2021\, Julian Borger discovered that his father\, Robert\, was the ‘intelligent boy\, aged eleven’ in an advert featured in the Manchester Guardian\, a revelation that leads to a global investigation into the secrets of his family’s past and the remarkable stories of the other advertised children. Travelling to Vienna and his father’s foster home in Caernarfon\, Wales\, he retraces Robert’s escape\, whilst searching for the other children and their family members\, unearthing unpublished memoirs that reveal what happened after the adverts were placed to escape the Nazis. \nFrom Viennese archives to the Shanghai ghetto\, internment camps and family homes across Britain\, forests and concentration camps in Germany\, escape routes and refugee hostels in Holland\, a secret Austrian cell within the French Resistance\, and a surprising discovery in New York\, Borger follows a kaleidoscope of lives at the mercy of the hands of fate\, uncovering unbelievable stories from around the world and revelations about members of his own family. \nAbout the Author\nJulian Borger is the Guardian’s World Affairs Editor and was part of the team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Snowden files. He was also awarded an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) medal in 2013\, the Paul Foot Special Investigation Award and the One World Media Press Award in 2016 for a feature story on war crimes in Syria.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-i-seek-a-kind-person-julian-borger/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240129T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240129T170000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
CREATED:20231219T120800Z
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SUMMARY:Stolpersteine laying ceremony and panel event on the Holocaust in the Netherlands
DESCRIPTION:Members of staff of the JCIO in Amsterdam. Margarete and Alfred Wiener are on the far left.  \nThe world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation\, the Stolperstein (stumbling stone) project has placed over 105\,000 stones in 30 countries. Created by German artist Gunter Demnig 25 years ago\, these small concrete cubes bearing a brass plate are placed in the pavement in front of the homes or places of work of victims of Nazi persecution. \nThe stones to be installed in Amsterdam commemorate Dr Margarete Wiener-Saulmann\, Kurt Zielenziger\, and Bernhard Krieg. All worked for The Wiener Holocaust Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam\, the Jewish Central Information Office\, and the stones will be placed outside the offices of the JCIO on Jan van Eyckstraat. \nFollowing the installation\, from 3 – 5pm\, The Wiener Holocaust Library will host a panel at the Goethe Institute in Amsterdam featuring contributions that will contextualise the Stolpersteine installation. \nContributors include Piet Hagen speaking about Alfred Wiener’s work in Amsterdam\, Laurien Vastenhout on the Holocaust in the Netherlands\, and Ronald Leopold\, Executive Director of the Anne Frank House. \nTickets are available through the link below and the panel will be followed by a reception. \nItinerary: \n\nMidday\, 16 hs Jan van Eyckstraat\, Amsterdam: Stolpersteine laying ceremony\n3 – 5pm\, The Goethe Institute\, Herengracht 470\, Amsterdam: Panel Event
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/stolpersteine-laying-ceremony-and-panel-event-on-the-holocaust-in-the-netherlands/
CATEGORIES:Holocaust Memorial Day,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240125T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224031
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2024: An evening of remembrance with The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Camden Council\, JW3 and the Jewish Museum London
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust Memorial Day event with Camden Council\, JW3 and the Jewish Museum London. \nThis evening event is organised in response to the 2024 Holocaust Memorial Day theme: ‘the fragility of freedom’ which invites us to consider the erosion of freedom by perpetrator regimes\, including key rights such as freedom as expression\, of religion and of movement. \nIt will feature readings of eyewitness testimonies held in our archive by the Leader of Camden Council\, the Mayor of Camden and Youth MPs. The testimonies explore the lives of Betty Lewin and her experience as a Jewish refugee in the Netherlands\, Lutz Hammer and his experiences in Sachsenhausen and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps\, and Hermione Horvath and her persecution as an Austrian Sinti woman. \nThere will also be an exploration of the history of the Wiener Holocaust Library by our Senior Curator Dr Barbara Warnock. Rabbi Eli Levin of South Hampstead Synagogue will lead a prayer. \nMore details of speakers will be announced soon. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2024-an-evening-of-remembrance-with-the-wiener-holocaust-library-camden-council-jw3-and-the-london-jewish-museum/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Holocaust Memorial Day
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240123T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240123T193000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224032
CREATED:20231127T160058Z
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SUMMARY:Online Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture: The Wiener Library at 90\, Ruth Wiener's Story
DESCRIPTION:A Holocaust Memorial day lecture with the University of York. \nThis event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme of ‘Fragility of Freedom’. \nRuth Wiener was the first daughter of Dr Margarethe Wiener and Dr Alfred Wiener\, the Wiener Holocaust Library’s founder. Born in Berlin in 1927\, Ruth spent the early years of her life in Germany before she relocated with her Father\, Mother\, and her two sisters Eva and Mirjam to Amsterdam\, Holland. \nJoin Barbara Warnock to hear how life changed for the Wiener family following the Nazi occupation of Holland.  On the morning of 20 June 1943\, Margarethe\, Ruth\, Eva and Mirjam were detained by the Nazis and sent to Westerbork\, a transit camp in the south of Holland.  In January 1944\, after seven months in Westerbork\, the family were deported to Bergen-Belsen. Ruth survived both camps and was one of the few people to escape Bergen-Belsen on an exchange scheme in January 1945. \nRuth’s papers were donated to the Library by her son\, Michael Klemens\, in 2014. The story that unfolds within her documents is both compelling and extraordinary. By showcasing items from this unique collection\, this talk aims to give an insight into the incredible journey and life of Ruth Wiener. \nSign up to attend online here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online-holocaust-memorial-day-lecture-the-wiener-library-at-90-ruth-wieners-story/
CATEGORIES:Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240122T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240122T190000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224032
CREATED:20231207T104329Z
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 Lecture by Barbara Yelin: “But I Live” – Emmie Arbel’s Illustrated Story of the Fragility of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg\, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are pleased to co-host a virtual lecture for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024. \nThe event is organised in response to the 2024 HMD theme “The Fragility of Freedom” which invites us to consider the erosion of freedom by perpetrator regimes\, including key rights such as freedom as expression\, of religion and of movement. \nThis event engages with the misconception that liberation means the end of suffering and the start of a free life. Whilst allied liberators freed Holocaust survivors from the physical imprisonment of concentration camps\, the prisoners then found themselves alone\, often unable to return home\, and having to move to a new country\, learn a new language and rebuild their lives from scratch. They had to rebuild new lives with the painful absence of family members and friends. \nSuch was the experience of Emmie Arbel\, who was 5 when the Nazis had deported her and her family from their home in the Netherlands. Liberated at the age of seven-and-a-half\, her start into a new life as an orphan confronted her with new painful experiences. Artist Barbara Yelin finds sensitive and powerful ways to tell Emmie’s story of the fragility of freedom as a moving graphic novel. \nAbout the Speaker \nBarbara Yelin studied illustration at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She is the author of numerous research-based\, historical and biographical Graphic Novels about women. In 2014\, she published the award-winning book Irmina\, the story of a German woman who chose to connive with the Nazi regime. Supported by the Goethe Insitute Israel\, Yelin memorialised the life of Israeli actress Channa Maron\, published in 2016 as Vor allem eins: Dir selbst sei treu. \nHer illustration of Emmie Arbel’s life is the result of an intimate co-creation of the graphic novelist and the Holocaust survivor that first appeared in the anthology But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust published by University of Toronto Press in 2021. It has since developed into a comprehensive account of Emmie Arbel’s experiences during and after the Holocaust published as Emmie Arbel: Die Farbe der Erinnerung. \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2024-lecture-by-barbara-yelin-but-i-live-emmie-arbels-illustrated-story-of-the-fragility-of-freedom/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240118T200000
DTSTAMP:20241017T224032
CREATED:20231102T111714Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: 'IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS'  a daughter’s response to her father’s silence\, with Learning from the Righteous and Finchley Reform Synagogue
DESCRIPTION:Within weeks of the Anschluss\, Wilhelm Pollak (Bill Powell)\, was arrested and spent the following ten months in Dachau and Buchenwald. After arriving in the UK in May ’39\, he spent a year interned in Canada and eventually returned to Britain to join the Pioneer Corp\, unable to speak about his camp experiences; a silence he kept for the rest of his life. After his death\, his daughter\, the ceramicist Jenny Stolzenberg\, created an instalment of shoes in his memory – describing it as “the conversation they were never able to have; a creative response to his silence”. Before her untimely death\, in 2016\, Jenny’s work was exhibited widely\, and to high acclaim\, including at the Imperial War Museum and Buchenwald Museum. \nBy researching previously neglected diaries and letters held at the Wiener Library\, and accessing numerous documents held in archives across the world\, Antony Lishak\, CEO of the Holocaust education charity Learning from the Righteous has been able to construct a comprehensive account of what happened to Wilhelm\, and the family he left behind in Vienna. During the evening he will talk about how these discoveries add extra poignancy to Jenny’s evocative memorial\, and explain her father’s silence. \nLearning from the Righteous and Finchley Reform Synagogue’s HMD Group are honoured to help fulfil Jenny’s family’s wish that her work continues to provoke reflection. They are delighted that the new IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS travelling exhibition will enable schools\, colleges and communal spaces to display these remarkable shoes\, each bearing witness to a life cut short. We are grateful for the support of The Association of Jewish Refugees and the Austrian Cultural Forum in staging this event. \nJoin us for the launch of the exhibition at The Wiener Holocaust Library \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-in-their-footsteps-with-learning-from-the-righteous-and-finchley-reform-synagogue/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Holocaust Memorial Day
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SUMMARY:The Zone of Interest: A screening with Jonathan Glazer and A24
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and A24 present a screening of The Zone of Interest. Directed by one of the Library’s valued trustees\, the evening will also feature remarks from the film’s creator Jonathan Glazer\, and an introduction from the Director of the Library Dr Toby Simpson. \nThe Zone of Interest centres on Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife as they strive to build a dream life next to the concentration camp\, and is loosely based on the Martin Amis novel of the same name. \nThe Zone of Interest premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2023 to critical acclaim\, winning both the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize. It went on to be named Best Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association\, selected as one of the top-five international films of 2023 by the National Board of Review\, and chosen as the British entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. \nThe screening will take place at the Curzon Cinema\, Soho.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/the-zone-of-interest-a-screening-with-jonathan-glazer-and-a24-films/
LOCATION:Curzon Soho\, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue\, London\, W1D 5DY
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