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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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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:20241023T065133
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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:20241023T065133
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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:20241023T065133
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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:20241023T065133
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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:20241023T065133
CREATED:20230824T142742Z
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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:20241023T065133
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231206T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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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:20241023T065133
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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
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231128T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T200000
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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
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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
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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
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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:20241023T065133
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231102T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: ‘The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation’ by Roger Moorhouse
DESCRIPTION:Between 1940 and 1943\, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable – and\, until now\, almost completely unknown – humanitarian operation. \nUnder the leadership of the Polish ambassador\, Aleksander Ładoś\, they undertook a systematic programme of forging Latin American passports and identity documents\, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. \nThe Ładoś operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the Holocaust\, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. The author\, Roger Moorhouse\, will give a short talk about this remarkable book which follows the desperate bids of Jews to obtain life-saving documents\, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be able to escape the murderous machinery of the Holocaust. After the talk\, Roger and the Director of the Library\, Dr Toby Simpson\, will conduct a conversation about the book\, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. \nAbout the speaker\nRoger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in modern German and Polish history. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw\, he is the author of Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots against the Führer\, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital\, 1939-1945\, The Devil’s Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin\, 1939-41 and\, most recently\, First to Fight: The Polish War 1939\, for which we was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s History Prize in 2019.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocausts-most-audacious-rescue-operation-by-roger-moorhouse/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T200000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: Expelled! The History of the “Polenaktion”
DESCRIPTION:25 October\, 6.30-8pm  \nOn the last weekend of October 1938\, 25\,000 Jews with Polish passports were arrested\, rounded up and deported by train to the Polish border. This travelling exhibition marks the 85th anniversary of the expulsion.  \nJoin us for the launch of the exhibition\, presented at The Wiener Holocaust Library for the first time in English\, produced by the Aktives Museum Berlin Faschismus und Widerstand e.V. and generously sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office\, the Sanddorf Foundation and the Ursula Lachnit Fixson Foundation. \n  \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-expelled-the-history-of-the-polenaktion-2/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231019T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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SUMMARY:Exhibition launch: Expelled! The History of the “Polenaktion”
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition\, on show for the first time in English\, is being staged to mark the 85th anniversary of this often-overlooked event; the first mass deportation of Jews from Germany to Poland. It chronicles the lives of families from all over Germany\, who fell victim to this deportation. \nThe launch will be held at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Russell Square on the 25th October 2023\, at 6.30pm and will include short talks and a drinks reception. The evening will feature an introduction by the Library’s director\, Dr Toby Simpson and speeches from Dr Alina Bothe\, the curator of Expelled! The History of the “Polenaktion”\, and Dr Shuli Reich whose family story is one of those told in this exhibition. \nThe exhibition was produced by the Aktives Museum Berlin Faschismus und Widerstand e.V. Aktives Museum (aktives-museum.de) and generously sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office\, the Sanddorf Foundation and the Ursula Lachnit Fixson Foundation.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-launch-expelled-the-history-of-the-polenaktion/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231018T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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SUMMARY:Book event: Thomas Harding in conversation with Aviva Dautch about The Maverick – George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Join The Wiener Holocaust Library and Jewish Renaissance to mark the publication of Thomas Harding’s The Maverick – the story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld\, who transformed not only publishing but the culture of ideas\, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure. \nAfter arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee\, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita\, Double Helix\, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox\, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion\, Mary McCarthy\, Golda Meir and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller\, Harold Wilson\, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. \nIn this first biography\, Thomas Harding provides a full\, unvarnished and at times difficult history of a complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career\, George Weidenfeld was written about in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Time\, Vanity Fair and other publications. Was he\, as described by some\, the ‘greatest salesperson’\, ‘the world’s best networker’\, ‘the publisher’s publisher’ and ‘a great intellectual’? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who\, in fact\, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of London and New York society? \nCovering topics such as democracy\, identity\, the plight of refugees\, globalism\, the liberal international order\, tension in the Middle East\, inter-generational trauma and reconciliation\, and dialogue between faiths\, the issues that George Weidenfeld faced are still as current and relevant today. \nPraise for The Maverick \n‘Thomas Harding has doggedly unearthed fascinating and surprising tales from George Weidenfeld’s life as he rose from poverty and Nazi persecution to become one of the world’s most powerful publishers. Harding reveals a complex personality in a richly told narrative that leaves the reader awed’ – LYNN MEDFORD\, former editor\, Washington Post Magazine \n‘The Maverick anchors George Weidenfeld as one of the foremost influencers in modern literature and a man who rose from extraordinary circumstances to lead an even more extraordinary life. \nA treasure trove of insight and history’ – ARIANNA HUFFINGTON \nAbout the speakers: \nThomas Harding is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than sixteen languages. He has written for the Sunday Times\, the Washington Post and the Guardian\, among other publications. His books include Hanns and Rudolf\, which won the JQ-Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction; The House by the Lake\, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Blood on the Page\, which won the Crime Writers’ Association ‘Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction’ and White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery. \nAviva Dautch is a poet and the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance. She has a PhD in contemporary poetry and her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies internationally. She was recently selected as one of the winners of the Primers Prize for emerging voices and received an Authors’ Foundation Grant from The Society of Authors. She has lectured on modern Jewish culture at the University of Roehampton\, the London School of Jewish Studies and JW3.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-thomas-harding-in-conversation-with-aviva-dautch-about-the-maverick-george-weidenfeld-and-the-golden-age-of-publishing/
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 Teacher Talk: The Oppression of the Black Community in Nazi-Occupied Europe
DESCRIPTION:The prisoner registration card of Gert Schramm  \nPart of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s free series of educational events for students and teachers\, drawing on our unique archive collection.\nThis education event is hosted in partnership with The German History Society \nBlack people experienced persecution and discrimination before\, during and after the Third Reich in Germany and elsewhere. This workshop will utilise the Library’s collections to explore how the persecution of Black people by the Nazi regime was not straightforward. There was a clear genocidal intention in Nazi policy towards Black men\, women\, and children\, but at a local level the implementation of these intentions was inconsistent and often haphazard\, which created a wide variety of experiences of persecution. \nThis virtual session is aimed at teachers and educators and will serve as an introduction to the topic – the themes introduced here will be developed further in a more intensive in-person workshop to take place in the spring. This event will be led by Dr Barbara Warnock\, Professor Robbie Aitken and Dr Jeff Bowersox. \nAims:  \n\nTo gain an overview of black history in Europe.\nTo consider Nazi policies towards black people.\nTo use the Library’s collection to explore the persecution and discrimination the black community faced in Nazi-Occupied Europe.\nTo gain an overview of Black history in Europe and of resources to support teaching on the subject.\n\nAbout the Speakers\nDr Barbara Warnock is the Library’s Senior Curator and Head of Education. \nProfessor Robbie Aitken is an Historian of Black Europe and Empire at Sheffield Hallam University. He has written widely on the development of a Black community in Germany from the 1880s up to 1945. His publications include Black Germany\, the Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community\, 1884-1960\, (with Eve Rosenhaft). Currently he is finishing a longer article on the Nuremberg Race Laws and their application to Black German residents. \nDr. Jeff Bowersox is an associate professor of German history at UCL. He researches and teaches on the connections that tied Germans and Europeans into the globalizing world of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published widely on German colonial culture\, most notably in his book Raising Germans in the Age of Empire (2013)\, on the history of toys\, and on Black entertainers in the German-speaking lands. He is also the managing editor of Black Central Europe\, a web resource making available historical materials on the history of the African diaspora in the German-speaking lands from the Middle Ages to the present. \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-the-oppression-of-the-black-community-in-nazi-occupied-europe-2/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T200000
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SUMMARY:Laurien Vastenhout: The Holocaust in the Netherlands: the ‘Dutch paradox’
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Wiener’s certificate acknowledging her registration as a person of ‘wholly or partly Jewish blood’ as required by the German occupying authorities in the Netherlands\, April 1941.  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90 exhibition events series. \nAround three quarters (75%) of the Jews in the Netherlands were murdered during the Holocaust. Compared to Belgium (40%) and France (25%)\, this is by far the highest death rate in Western Europe. \nSince the Netherlands is known for its supposed tradition of tolerance towards minorities\, the question why so many Jews were deported and killed has occupied a central place in Dutch Holocaust historiography. \nIn this talk\, Dr Laurien Vastenhout presents an explanatory framework for this so-called ‘Dutch paradox’. In doing so\, she not only provides an insight into how the Holocaust unfolded in the Netherlands\, but also address some persistent misconceptions about the role of the Jewish community leadership – specifically\, the Dutch Jewish Council – in the process of isolation and deportation of the Jews during the German occupation. \nAbout the speaker\nDr Laurien Vastenhout is researcher and assistant professor at NIOD Institute for War\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies / the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2020. \nIn 2022\, her book Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation was published by Cambridge University Press. Vastenhout was recently granted a Dutch Research Council (NWO) VENI award for her project ‘Intermarriage and Family: Survival during War\, Occupation and Genocide’\, which will her research focus the coming years.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/laurien-vastenhout-the-holocaust-in-the-netherlands-the-dutch-paradox/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
CREATED:20230821T145920Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Sam Finkelstein on Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
DESCRIPTION:A Red Cross Telegram sent by Margarete Wiener to Alfred Wiener explaining that the family had been unable to obtain exit permits from the Netherlands.  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin Daniel Finkelstein at the Library for a discussion of his family memoir with his son Sam\, who acted as the first reader of the book. The event will also be a chance to view the Library’s ninetieth anniversary exhibitions\, one of which\, The Wiener Family Story\, features some of the documents and stories that are featured in Finkelstein’s book. \nAbout the book: Daniel Finkelstein’s family experience at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century is one of miraculous survival. His mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred Wiener was the founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library and a decorated hero from the Great War. He is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began\, in 1933\, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam\, he relocated the Library’s predecessor organisation to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded Holland. Before long\, the family was rounded up\, robbed\, humiliated\, and sent to Bergen-Belsen camp. \nDaniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwow\, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939\, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland\, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm\, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. \nAbout the speaker\nDaniel Finkelstein is a British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times\, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-sam-finkelstein-on-hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad-a-family-memoir-of-miraculous-survival/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231010T160000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: The Box with the Sunflower Clasp – Jewish flight to Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Family History events series\, the Library is pleased to host Rachel Meller talking about her first book\, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp\, which relates the flight of her aunt and grandparents from Nazi-run Vienna to the unlikely haven of Shanghai. She will describe the resilience and enterprise of the 20\,000-strong Jewish community within the challenging surroundings of the war-torn Chinese port. \nRachel will be joined by Niamh Hanrahan\, a PhD student at the University of Manchester\, researching a history of movement by Jewish refugees from Europe to Asia during WWII. She will discuss the history of Jews in Shanghai and wartime Jewish journeys made to reach China\, connecting Rachel’s family story to a wider historical narrative. \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-the-box-with-the-sunflower-clasp-jewish-flight-to-shanghai/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books,Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231005T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City\, John Kampfner
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust at Ninety exhibition event series.\nJoin us for an evening event to mark the publication of In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City. \nEver since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin\, he hasn’t been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past\, obsessed with memories\, a place where traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. \nOver the past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of Berlin\, delving into the archives\, and talking to historians and writers\, architects and archaeologists. He clambers onto a fallen statue of Lenin; he rummages in boxes of early Medieval bones; he learns about the cabaret star so outrageous she was thrown out of the city. \nBerlin has been a military barracks\, industrial powerhouse\, centre of learning\, hotbed of decadence – and the laboratory for the worst experiment in horror known to man.  Now a city of refuge\, it is home to 180 nationalities\, and more than a quarter of the population has a migrant background. Berlin never stands still. It is never satisfied. It never believes it has the answer. But it is now the irresistible capital to which the world is gravitating. \nIn Search of Berlin is an 800-year story\, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Kampfner is an award-winning author\, broadcaster and foreign-affairs commentator. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow (during the collapse of communism) for the Telegraph. After covering British politics for the Financial Times and BBC\, he edited the New Statesman. \nHe is a regular TV and radio pundit\, documentary maker and author of six previous books\, including the bestselling Blair’s Wars.  His most recent book\, Why the Germans Do it Better\, was a top ten bestseller\, Book of the Year in the Guardian\, Economist and the New Statesman\, and sold over 100\,000 copies in all editions.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-in-search-of-berlin-the-story-of-a-reinvented-city-john-kampfner/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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SUMMARY:Online Event: Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award 2023
DESCRIPTION:Join The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) and The Wiener Holocaust Library for the HAF Human Rights Award and annual lecture. \nThis year’s recipient is the Hummingbird Project: www.hummingbirdproject.org.uk. Founded in 2015 as a grassroots organisation in Calais\, Hummingbird are now a Brighton-based charity working locally with young refugees & campaigning nationally. Their services have been developed by listening & responding to the needs of local young refugees and they actively campaign for the rights & protection of refugees. \nFor 2023\, the HAF Annual Lecture will be given by Stephanie Harrison KC. She will discuss the importance of challenging the unlawful detention of refugees. \nThis event will be online only on account of scheduled strike action on the railways and London Underground. \nAbout the speaker \nStephanie Harrison KC is a leading public law practitioner. Her cases include those arising from unlawful detention\, national security\, official misconduct\, abuse of power\, child sexual exploitation\, equality and discrimination\, minority rights and civil rights protest and injunctions. She is passionate about upholding and advancing the rights of vulnerable\, minority groups and children. Harrison was appointed as legal counsel to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in 2015. \nShe is ranked for Administrative and Public Law\, Civil Liberties and Human Rights and Immigration in both the Legal 500 and Chambers UK Bar Guide. Stephanie Harrison was shortlisted for Civil Liberties & Human Rights Silk of the Year at Legal 500 UK Awards 2020 and for Human Rights and Public Law Silk of the Year by Chambers Bar Awards 2019. She won the Liberty Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award 2013\, the Chambers UK Bar Human Rights and Public Law Junior of the Year award 2012 and was shortlisted for Public Law Silk of the Year at the Legal 500 Awards 2017. \nHans Albrecht came to Britain on the Kindertransport. The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) strives to advance and promote human rights particularly in relation to children\, equalities\, disability\, children who are refugees and/or fleeing conflict and freedom from persecution on the grounds of race\, ethnicity and faith. \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-event-hans-albrecht-foundation-annual-lecture-and-human-rights-award-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T065133
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: What was the Holocaust? An Overview
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s free series of educational events for students and teachers\, drawing on our unique archive collection.\nIn this talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students and teachers\, the Library’s Education Officer\, Kiera Fitzgerald\, will draw upon the Library’s rich and diverse collections of original historical material to provide an introduction to the key events and the main features of the Holocaust. \nShe will explore the murders of Jews and Roma by killing squads in eastern Europe\, and the transportations to extermination camps. The session will consider Jewish and Roma victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide\, examine who the perpetrators and collaborators were\, and consider the historical evidence that allows historians to understand the Holocaust. \nAims:  \n\nTo gain an understanding of the key events and main features of the Holocaust.\nTo consider Jewish and Roma victims of the Holocaust and Nazi genocide\nTo examine who the perpetrators and collaborators were\nTo assess the historical evidence that allows historians to understand the Holocaust\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-what-was-the-holocaust-an-overview/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230927T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230927T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture: 2022 Ernst Fraenkel Prize Winner - Ari Joskowicz\, Rain of Ash
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host an evening lecture by the winner of our 2022 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. The jury has awarded Ari Joskowicz’s book\, Rain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust the prize. The judges found it to be “a compelling and important book which deserves to be widely read. It is both beautifully written and sensitively handled. A truly field defining work!” \nJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust\, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war\, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts\, scholars\, educators\, curators\, and politicians\, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma went largely ignored. Rain of Ash is the untold story of how Roma turned to Jewish institutions\, funding sources\, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition and compensation for their wartime suffering. \nAri Joskowicz vividly describes the experiences of Hitler’s forgotten victims and charts the evolving postwar relationship between Roma and Jews over the course of nearly a century. During the Nazi era\, Jews and Roma shared little in common besides their simultaneous persecution. Yet the decades of entwined struggles for recognition have deepened Romani-Jewish relations\, which now center not only on commemorations of past genocides but also on contemporary debates about antiracism and Zionism. \nUnforgettably moving and sweeping in scope\, Rain of Ash is a revelatory account of the unequal yet necessary entanglement of Jewish and Romani quests for historical justice and self-representation that challenges us to radically rethink the way we remember the Holocaust. \nFurther information about Prof Joskowicz’s book can be found here. \nAbout the Speakers\nAri Joskowicz is associate professor of Jewish studies\, history\, and European studies at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France. \nTímea Junghaus is an art historian and contemporary art curator. She started in the position of Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture in September 2017. Previously\, Junghaus was Research Fellow of the Working Group for Critical Theories at the Institute for Art History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010-2017). She has researched and published extensively on the conjunctions of modern and contemporary art with critical theory\, with particular reference to issues of cultural difference\, colonialism\, and minority representation. She is completing her Ph.D. studies in Cultural Theory at the Eötvös Loránd University\, Budapest. \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/virtual-lecture-2022-ernst-fraenkel-prize-winner-ari-joskowicz-rain-of-ash/
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism
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