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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240327T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240313T183000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240311T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240229T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240228T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240228T170000
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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:20241023T061954
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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
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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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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:20241023T061954
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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:20241023T061954
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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:20241023T061954
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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
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DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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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:20241023T061954
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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:20241023T061954
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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:20241023T061954
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240115T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240115T210000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti
DESCRIPTION:Margarete Kraus\, a Czech Roma who survived the Holocaust \nPart of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s free series of educational events for students and teachers\, drawing on our unique archive collection.\nOn 16 December 1942\, a decree was issued by Himmler to move all Sinti and Roma in Reich Territory to Auschwitz\, where a special camp had been built to hold them. Following the order\, more than 22\,000 Roma (most of the remaining Roma in Germany) were rounded up and sent. Just a few survived. \nThis workshop marks 81 years since that decree and yet little is known about the genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War.  Referred to as ‘the forgotten Holocaust’ by Professor Eve Rosenhaft\, this workshop draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s collections of material on the genocide to uncover the story of this understudied aspect of Nazi persecution. \nAims:  \n\nTo find out who the Roma are\nTo gain an overview of Roma history in Europe\nTo consider Nazi policies towards Roma\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-nazi-genocide-of-the-roma-and-sinti/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231207T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture\, Resisters: How ordinary Jews fought persecution in Hitler’s Germany\, by Professor Wolf Gruner
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway\, University of London) \nIn this lecture from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, Professor Wolf Gruner will speak about his latest publication\, Resisters: How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany. \nDrawing on twelve years of research in dozens of archives in Austria\, Germany\, Israel\, and the United States\, this book tells the story of five Jewish people – a merchant\, a homemaker\, a real estate broker\, and two teenagers – who bravely resisted persecution and defended themselves in Nazi Germany. \nThese stories have not been told until now\, and each case is one of many\, as Professor Gruner shows by resurfacing similar accounts of Jewish refusal to accept persecution and violence in Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1943\, upending the notion of passive Jews and expanding the concept of resistance. \nEach individual described here represents a category of resistance: written opposition\, oral protest\, contesting Nazi propaganda\, defiance of anti-Jewish laws and measures\, and self-defence against verbal and physical attacks. Many of these courageous acts resulted in the resisters\, men and women\, being prosecuted and put on trial\, and often receiving harsh punishments\, while some led to acquittal by courts and others to changes in Nazi policies. Taken together\, these accounts reframe our understanding of German Jewish attitudes during the Holocaust\, while also providing an astonishing examination of the complex Nazi reactions to the many individual acts of Jewish resistance. \nAbout the Speaker\nWolf Gruner is the Shapell Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California. He is the founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research\, and the author of ten books on the Holocaust. He lives in Los Angeles\, CA. \nA drinks reception and book signing will follow the lecture. \nSign up to attend the lecture here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-lecture-resisters-how-ordinary-jews-fought-persecution-in-hitlers-germany-by-professor-wolf-gruner/
LOCATION:Birkbeck\, University of London\, Clore lecture Theatre\, Clore lecture Theatre\, Clore Management Centre\, WC1E 7JL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231206T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Andrea Hammel\, The Kindertransport: what really happened
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed\, watch the recording via the Library’s YouTube channel. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark the publication of Andrea Hammel’s important new book on the Kindertransport child rescue scheme\, based on extensive new research. \nThe first train of the Kindertransport 1938/39 arrived in the UK almost exactly 85 years ago. The scheme has long been celebrated as a British humanitarian success and is known to the wider British public. But research has shown that the circumstances of the scheme and its implementation were complex and not always motivated by altruism. Children were separated from their parents; the scheme lacked governmental support; it relied on the enthusiasm of private citizens and struggling charities. \nIn this talk Andrea Hammel will show what really happened using her research into governmental and organisational records as well as oral testimonies and ego documents. \nAbout the speaker\nAndrea Hammel is Professor of German and the Director of the Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University. She has researched refugees from National Socialism who fled to the UK for over 20 years. She led a project on Refugees from National Socialism in Wales: Learning from the Past for the Future which involved co-curators who are refugees from Syria\, Afghanistan and Kuwait resulting in an exhibition which has been showing at Aberystwyth\, the Senedd\, the Houses of Parliament and in Bangor (see also: Finding Refuge: Stories of the men women and children who fled to Wales to escape the Nazis\, 2022) . Andrea Hammel has co-written two reports on Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Refugees of the 1930s which were presented to the Welsh Government.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-andrea-hammel-the-kindertransport-what-really-happened/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Expelled! The History of the "Polenaktion",Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231205T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231205T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:In conversation: Darfur20/Sudan – Justice\, accountability\, impunity
DESCRIPTION:A joint Wiener Holocaust Library and Waging Peace event to mark 20 years since the start of genocide in Darfur\, and renewed violence across Sudan in 2023 \nHM King Charles and Amouna Adam discuss a peacebuilding project facilitated by Waging Peace named ‘Peace by Piece’ at a Sudanese community gathering in March 2023\, © Sam Churchill \nIn this event our expert panel will discuss the ongoing impact of ethnic cleansing and war on Darfur\, in this\, the twentieth anniversary of the internationally recognised start of the genocide perpetrated against non-Arab Darfuri people by Sudanese government forces and Janjaweed militia. The panel will include international justice practitioners and advocates\, representatives from the International Criminal Court\, as well as Abdallah Abugarda Idriss\, Mohammed Ibrahim\, Tajeldeen Ismail and Nagmelden Osman\, leading members of the Darfur Diaspora Association. \nCurrently\, the largest displacement crisis in the world is in Sudan\, where 7.1 million people are displaced internally\, 4.5 million of whom were displaced since violence erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April 2023. A further 1.25 million have been forced to cross borders by conflict and genocidal policies. British Minister for Africa\, the Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP has recently described the situation in the Sudanese region of Darfur as ‘bearing all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing’. \nThe International Criminal Court is currently investigating historical war crimes in Sudan and the war crimes occurring today\, and the panel will consider how the lack of justice and accountability with respect to the genocide from 2003 has enabled some of the groups responsible to once again commit atrocities in 2023. \nFurther details of speakers to follow. \nThis event will take place in person at the Library and online. \nFurther information from Waging Peace\, a human rights organisation that campaigns against genocide and human rights abuses in Sudan and support Sudanese refugees in Britain: \n\n20 years of genocide in Darfur\, a guest contribution by Eric Reeves\nThe situation in Adre\, by Khadidja Fadoul\nPeace in Sudan depends on justice for the Darfur genocide\, by Professor Mukesh Kapila CBE\n\nA drawing by a child survivor of genocide in Darfur\, depicting what they witnessed during the genocide\, 2007\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections \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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\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/in-conversation-darfur20-sudan-two-decades-of-justice-accountability-and-impunity/
CATEGORIES:Genocide
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231128T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Matthias Weniger – The Restitution of Stolen Silver
DESCRIPTION:Credit: Bastian Krack for the Bavarian National Museum \nA Joint Wiener Holocaust Library and Second Generation Network event  \nAt this event\, Third Generation Network committee member Tom Willett will introduce Dr Matthias Weniger\, head of provenance research at the Bavarian National Museum. Dr Weniger directs a project tracing the heirs of 111 silver objects confiscated by the German Reich and later bought by the museum. The objects had been seized and sold to the museum as part of the gigantic silver levy imposed on German Jews in 1939. Dr Weniger will explain how he and his small team have been tracing the heirs and returning items to them since 2019. \nBy September 2023\, 54 objects had been restituted to some 70 families across the word; in some cases\, more than 30 descendants are involved in the return of one or two objects. After the talk there will be a chance to ask questions and share stories of family objects that have been returned or restituted. This event is open to members of the First\, Second and Third Generations. \nAbout the speaker: Dr Matthias Weniger has been head of provenance research at The Bavarian National Museum since 2021. Weniger studied Art History in Berlin\, Bonn and Barcelona\, completing his PhD in 1997. He has worked for the State Museums in Berlin\, for the paintings collection in Dresden\, and at The Bavarian National Museum\, Munich. He has long focused on the history of collecting and provenance issues. In 2011 he worked on a project concerned with the sculptures owned by Hermann Göring. Since 2021\, he has led the network of provenance researchers in Bavaria. \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-event-mattias-weniger-the-restitution-of-stolen-silver/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T180000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Debórah Dwork at the Leo Baeck Institute\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Two Roads Home\, Courtesy Doubleday Books \nThis event has passed. It can be watched in full via the Library’s YouTube channel. \nThis special event hosted in partnership with the Centre for Jewish History will see British journalist and politician\, Daniel Finkelstein OBE\, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler\, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family\, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book. Learn more about the legacy of the Wiener Library and the tragic personal histories embedded in its founding. Hosted by the US Friends of the Wiener Holocaust Library\, the talk will be followed by a light drinks reception. \nSpecial guests Chief of Staff to His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General to New York Rian Matanky-Becker and renowned journalist Sarah Wildman will open the event. \n\nAbout the Book\n\n\nIn Two Roads Home (Doubleday\, September 2023) beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials they barely survived. Daniel Finkelstein’s grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam\, where they knew Anne Frank. But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel’s mother\, Mirjam\, also still a child\, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters. \nFinkelstein’s father\, Ludwik\, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father\, Dolu was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control\, Dolu\, was deported to Siberia and Ludwik and his mother were sentenced to forced labor in Kazakhstan\, starved and housed in a stable in freezing conditions. \n\nThis event will take place in-person at the Center for Jewish History\, and will be live streamed online. \nAbout the Speakers\n\n\nDaniel Finkelstein is the grandson of the German Jewish scholar activist Alfred Wiener\, who founded the Wiener Library in 1933 in order to warn the world of the Nazi threat. He is weekly political columnist at The Times of London. Formerly an adviser to Prime Minister John Major\, he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. \n\n\nProfessor Debórah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center–City University of New York. She is renowned for her scholarship on Holocaust history and her pathbreaking early oral recording of Holocaust survivors\, weaving their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include: Flight from the Reich (W.W. Norton\, 2012); Auschwitz (W.W. Norton\, 2006); Holocaust (W.W. Norton\, 2002); and Children With A Star (Yale University Press\, 1991). Debórah Dwork is also recipient of the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) and the Annetje Fels Kupferschmidt Award\, bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee (2022).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-deborah-dwork-at-the-leo-baeck-institute-new-york/
LOCATION:Centre for Jewish History\, 15 West 16th Street\, New York\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch – Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Library\, in association with the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, is delighted to invite you to the launch of Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day\, Yearbook 22 of the RCGAES (Brill 2023). \nCo-editors Dr Malcolm Miller and Dr. Jutta Raab Hansen will introduce the Yearbook\, delving into its international scope\, tracing refugee musicians in Europe\, the USA\, Australia\, and Shanghai. They will explore in detail the lives and legacies of three outstanding émigré British musicians: Ferdinand Rauter\, pianist and founder of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society\, the conductor-composer Peter Gellhorn and composer-pianist Franz Reizenstein. \nContributing to the discussion we are delighted to welcome their children Andrea Rauter\, Mary Gellhorn and John Reizenstein\, as well as the singer Norbert Meyn FRCM\, Principle Investigator of the ‘Music\, Migration and Mobility’ project at the Royal College of Music\, and a contributor to the volume. Refreshments will be served. \nAbout the speakers\nMalcolm Miller is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University\, UK. He has published widely on Beethoven\, Wagner and contemporary music. His essay ‘Music as Memory: British Émigré Composers and their Wartime Experience’ appeared in The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music (ed. Erik Levi\, Böhlau Verlag\, 2014). \nJutta Raab Hansen studied musicology at Berlin Humboldt University and\, in 1988\, joined Peter Petersen’s exile music research group at Hamburg University\, resulting in her PhD thesis NS-verfolgte Musiker in England: Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Flüchtlinge in der britischen Musikkultur (Hamburg\, 1996). Research in the UK\, Australia and Jerusalem (2003–11) included a contribution to ORT’s ‘Music and the Holocaust’ project\, followed by her translation and edition of émigré singer Elena Gerhardt’s 1953 memoirs (Altenburg\, 2012). She worked as a music therapist\, between 2012–18 in Thuringia\, Germany. \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/book-launch-music-and-exile-from-1933-to-the-present-day/
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: Beyond Europe: The history and memory of Jewish Refugees in Japan
DESCRIPTION:The Hikawa Maru\, a ship which took Jewish refugees from Japan to onward destinations in the early 1940s. It’s now stationed in Yokohama in Yamashita Pier \nPart of our new seminar series\, Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nIn the 1930s and 40s\, many Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe fled their homes to search for safety in countries away from persecution. Some of these destinations\, notably Britain and the United States\, are widely known about. But journeys to Western Europe and North America are only one part of a global story. This talk focuses on Jewish refugees who travelled to Japan\, and who in the process often made journeys covering multiple countries across land and sea. For example\, many Jews who arrived in Kobe\, a city in Japan\, in the early 1940s arrived via Poland\, Lithuania\, and the Soviet Union\, having used the Trans-Siberian railway and sea travel to cross multiple borders. \nFollowing this history\, and drawing on time spent researching in Japan\, this talk will draw on key research questions: how and why did Jewish refugees come to Japan? What were the possibilities open and closed to them? How is this remembered today? \nAbout the Speaker: \nNiamh Hanrahan is a PhD student at the University of Manchester\, based in the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute. Her PhD project is titled Beyond Europe: Jewish Journeys and Humanitarian Aid in Japan (1931-1953)\, covering a history of movement by Jewish refugees from Europe to Japan. Niamh was the postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies in the 2022/23 academic year. She has published research in blogs for the academic website Refugee History and for The Holocaust Centre North and has been awarded fellowships to conduct research in the USA\, Germany\, Japan\, and Australia. \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/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-beyond-europe-the-history-and-memory-of-jewish-refugees-in-japan/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: Past\, Present and Future?
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place once again at Gresham College\, and will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Sir Richard Evans. \nAntisemitism has existed and continues to exist on many levels\, from unthinking prejudice to highly developed theories. Common to all levels is an explicit\, or more often\, implicit belief that all Jews\, usually defined in racial terms\, are conspiring secretly to undermine civilisation\, order\, or social and cultural stability. \nThis lecture considers the evolution of this conspiracy theory since the Middle Ages\, examines its nature and operation today\, and considers its future development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nProfessor Sir Richard Evans FBA was Provost of Gresham College from 2014-2020. He is a world-renowned historian and academic\, with many of his books now acknowledged as seminal works in the field of modern history. He was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge from 2008 until his retirement in September 2014. \n\nRegister to attend online or in person here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fourth-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Gresham College\, Barnard's Inn Hall\, London\, EC1N 2HH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231110T150000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Their Finest Hour 'Digital Collection Day': A nationwide campaign to preserve Second World War and Nazi-era memories and artefacts
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is looking for people to bring their stories and artefacts relating to the Second World War\, the Nazi era and/or the Holocaust to a ‘Digital Collection Day’ on Friday 10 November (10am – 3pm). \n\n\n\nThe event is part of a nationwide campaign organised by Their Finest Hour\, a team based at the University of Oxford and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund\, which is collecting and preserving the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War. \n\n\n\nAs these stories are fast fading from living memory\, it is vital that they\, and the mementos that often accompany them\, are preserved for future generations. \n\n\n\nAt the Digital Collection Day\, stories about your family’s experiences – and associated objects such as diaries\, letters\, photos\, medals\, and journals– will be recorded\, digitised\, and then uploaded to the Their Finest Hour online archive\, which will be free-to-use from June 2024. \n\n\n\nDr Stuart Lee\, project leader\, said: “We’re delighted to be able to create an archive of memories of the Second World War era. We know from previous projects that people have so many objects\, photos\, and anecdotes which have been passed down from family members which are at risk of getting lost or being forgotten. Our aim is to empower people to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to posterity.” \n\n\n\nThe project team is especially interested in collecting contributions from people whose families lived through the Nazi era in Europe\, 1933-45. \nThere is no need to book if you wish to attend\, please just turn up on the day.\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about the event\, please contact Matthew Kidd. For more information about the project\, please visit the project website (theirfinesthour.org). You can also follow the project’s progress on Facebook\, Twitter\, and Instagram.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/their-finest-hour-digital-collection-day-a-nationwide-campaign-to-preserve-second-world-war-and-nazi-era-memories-and-artefacts/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: 85 Years On: ‘Polenaktion’ and The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)
DESCRIPTION:On the last weekend of October 1938\, 25\,000 Jews with Polish passports were arrested\, rounded up and deported by train to the Polish border. After living in Germany often for decades\, they were expelled without prior warning. A huge humanitarian catastrophe played out at the German-Polish border. Hundreds were injured and dozens died as they were forced to cross into Poland at gunpoint. \nOnly a few weeks later on 9 and 10 November 1938\, in hundreds of towns across Germany and Austria\, thousands of Jews were terrorised\, persecuted and victimised. The November Pogrom\, known alternatively as Kristallnacht\, also led to the desecration of over 1\,200 synagogues and the looting of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes. Approximately 90 people were killed and over 25\,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to camps. \n85 years on\, this talk explores the experiences of Jewish men\, women and children whose lives were changed forever by the events of the Polenaktion and November Pogrom. \nAimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the history of Polenaktion; to explore the November Pogrom from the perspective of eyewitnesses; to consider why the events were so significant; and to reflect on them 85 years on. \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
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-85-years-on-polenaktion-and-the-november-pogrom-kristallnacht/
CATEGORIES:Education,Expelled! The History of the "Polenaktion"
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231108T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T061954
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Talk: Anna Nyburg\, The Clothes on Our Backs: How refugees from Nazism revitalised the British fashion trade
DESCRIPTION:Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe\, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However\, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to these Jews in the clothing industry after the Nazis came to power in 1933\, bent on ridding Germany of Jews? Many found asylum in Britain\, where soon the refugee owners of Kangol and other firms were employing thousands of British workers at a time of dreadfully high unemployment. And when war broke out\, it was Kangol who made the berets for the British army and other forces. \nBritish companies started to recognise what the refugees could offer: Pringle of Scotland for one could see the benefits of hiring an Austrian refugee designer\, their first. It was he who thought up the twinset which became a huge commercial success. The refugees brought new technology\, new display methods\, a different attitude to export and much more. It was no wonder then that by the end of the war the refugee clothiers were recognised as having made a disproportionate contribution to the economy Just one who was honoured was Miki Sekers\, who was made an MBE in 1955 for services to the fashion industry. \nAdditionally\, to show their gratitude to the land that had saved their lives and given them hope\, several became major patrons to the British arts scene. Harry Djanogly\, supplier of clothing to M&S and a major donor to medical and educational projects also\, was knighted for his services to philanthropy in 1993. Here Anna Nyburg tells their stories. \nAbout the Speaker \nAnna Nyburg is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial college London where she has taught languages for many years. Her PhD dissertation (2009) in Exile Studies studied the way in which refugees from Nazism transformed art publishing in Britain. She is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London. \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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\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-lunchtime-talk-anna-nyburg-the-clothes-on-our-backs-how-refugees-from-nazism-revitalised-the-british-fashion-trade/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks
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