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SUMMARY:Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Join the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition\, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, who will explore the remarkable\, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. \nFate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims. They will be joined by Dr Mia Spiro (Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish Culture and Holocaust Studies\, University of Glasgow) where they will discuss the development of the exhibition and reflect on some of the issues and themes it highlights. \nThis event is free but space is limited. Please register at the link below.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fate-unknown-the-search-for-the-missing-after-the-holocaust-2/
LOCATION:Scottish Jewish Archives Centre\, 129 Hill Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6UB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230910T103000
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DTSTAMP:20241023T072454
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SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive\, including using sources freely available online. Join our Senior ITS Archive Team Manager\, Elise Bath and ITS Researcher Ian Rich as they demonstrate the uses of this important archive. \nThe workshop will also feature family research support services available from Glasgow-based partner organisations\, soon to be announced. Bring along your family trees and research questions! \nParticipants will also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers. Please indicate your interest at the registration link below.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-and-repair-family-history-research-workshop/
LOCATION:Scottish Jewish Archives Centre\, 129 Hill Street\, Glasgow\, G3 6UB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230909T120000
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SUMMARY:Open House London 2023: Weekend opening on Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th September
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that the Wiener Holocaust Library is participating in this year’s Open House Festival. The Open House Festival offers an opportunity for people to visit and gain access to a significant number of buildings\, landscapes and neighbourhoods across London. As the world’s oldest Holocaust archive and Britain’s largest\, this event gives the opportunity for visitors to enter and explore the Library and its collections. \nThe dates that we will be participating in the festival are Saturday 9th September and Sunday 10th September from 12pm – 4pm on both dates. \nAs part of this event\, tours of the library will be conducted regularly with our volunteer tour guides. The Tour will encompass the Library’s main archive space where you’ll have the opportunity to view fascinating and rare historical documents from the Holocaust whilst also being able to take a look around the Wolfson Reading Room. \nThere is no pre-booking for this event\, just turn up and we’ll be delighted to welcome you in and show you around. We are excited and looking forward to welcoming you to the Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/open-house-london-2023-weekend-opening-on-saturday-9th-sunday-10th-september/
CATEGORIES:Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230906T200000
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SUMMARY:Free Public Performance: Yiddish Glory and Songs from Testimonies
DESCRIPTION:As part of the closed “Bloody Folklore” Workshop on New Research on Music\, Archives and the Holocaust\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies\, The Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, World ORT Music and the Holocaust\, the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre and the UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies are delighted to host two musical performances by Yiddish Glory and Songs from Testimonies. Attendance is free\, but because space is limited and registration below is required. \nThe Yale Fortunoff Songs From Testimonies project collects and records songs and poems discovered in our testimonies. Zisl Slepovitch took the songs\, conducted research about their origins\, then arranged and recorded versions with his ensemble\, featuring Sasha Lurje. The songs and poems you will hear were sung or recounted in a number of testimonies and reflect the richness of these documents. They are songs from the interwar period and from the ghettos and the camps. Originally\, these songs were sung individually and collectively\, but in survivors’ testimonies they are recounted or performed by individuals. They thus remind us that the survivor singing them represents all those who did not survive to sing again\, and remind us of the absence of the original audience. \nHistorian Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto) and singer/violinist Alice Zawadzki\, bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado\, and pianist Bruno Heinen bring to life long lost Yiddish songs of World War II in this all-new concert and lecture program. Collected by Moisei Beregovsky and other academics of the Kiev Cabinet for Jewish Culture\, these previously unknown Yiddish songs were confiscated and hidden by the Soviet government in 1949\, and have only recently come to light. They tell stories of how Soviet Jews lived and died under the German occupation\, used music to document Nazi atrocities\, fought in the Red Army\, worked in the home front in Central Asia\, and made sense of it all through Yiddish music. None of these songs was known until they were accidentally discovered in the basement of the Ukrainian National Library in the 1990s. The lecture/concert features the performance of these previously unknown materials\, thus giving voices to Soviet Jewish women\, children\, and men who never got to tell their stories\, but left us their incredible songs.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/free-public-performance-yiddish-glory-and-songs-from-testimonies/
LOCATION:Conway Hall\, 25 Red Lion Square\, London\, WC1R 4RL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230904T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Nick Underwood in conversation with Sonia Gollance
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic books event series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host Nick Underwood who will speak about his new book\, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nYiddish Paris explores how Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s created a Yiddish diaspora nation in Western Europe and how they presented that nation to themselves and to others in France. In this meticulously researched and first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France\, author Nick Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish Paris was depended on “culture makers\,” mostly left-wing Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions\, including the French branch of YIVO (a research institution focused on East European Jews)\, theatre troupes\, choruses\, and a pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair of 1937. \nYiddish Paris examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France\, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups\, they could remain a distinct group\, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet\, in the process\, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism\, finding allies among French intellectuals\, largely on the left. \nAbout the Speaker\nNick Underwood is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Berger-Neilsen Chair of Judaic Studies at The College of Idaho. His work has appeared in a number of journals\, and his book Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France was a finalist for the 2022 National Jewish Book Award. He is also the project manager for the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project. \nSonia Gollance is Lecturer in Yiddish at UCL. She is a scholar of Yiddish Studies and German-Jewish literature whose work focuses on dance\, theatre\, and gender. Her first book\, It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2021. Previously she taught at the University of Vienna\, The Ohio State University\, and the University of Göttingen (Germany). She received her PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Comparative Literature and Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago. \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-book-talk-yiddish-paris-with-nicholas-underwood/
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:20230727T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Przemysłowa Concentration Camp for Children – Katarzyna Person\, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic books event series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host the authors of Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp\, the Children\, the Trial\, Dr Katarzyna Person and Prof Johannes-Dieter Steinert. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nThis book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemysłowa street\, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt as the Germans called it\, was a concentration camp for children. The camp at Przemysłowa existed for just over two years\, from December 1942 until January 1945. During that time\, an unknown number of children\, mainly Polish nationals\, were imprisoned there and subjected to extreme physical and emotional abuse. For almost all\, the consequences of atrocities which they endured in the camp remained with them for the rest of their lives. This book focuses on the establishment of the camp\, the experience of the child prisoners\, and the post-war investigations and trials. It is based on contemporary German documents\, post-war Polish trials and German investigations\, as well as dozens of testimonies from camp survivors\, guards\, civilian camp staff and the camp leadership. \nAbout the Speakers:\nKatarzyna Person is a historian of the Holocaust working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, Poland. \nJohannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton\, UK. \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.\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-book-talk-przemyslowa-concentration-camp-for-children-katarzyna-person-johannes-dieter-steinert/
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:20230725T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230725T193000
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SUMMARY:Book event: Susan Ronald\, Hitler’s Aristocrats —The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941 With Amanda Foreman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Susan Ronald in conversation with award-winning author and historian Amanda Foreman about Susan’s new book\, Hitler’s Aristocrats. \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Ronald is a British-American historian\, biographer\, and acclaimed author of ten books\, four of which are about the influencers and enablers of Hitler\, the Nazis\, and appeasers in World War II: Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt\, the Nazis\, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures — A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty\, Noted Philanthropist\, and Nazi Collaborator — The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938–1940. Her tenth book is entitled Hitler’s Aristocrats—The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941. Hitler’s Aristocrats was published in March 2023 by Amberley Publishing in the U.K. and St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan in the U.S.A. \nBefore becoming a fulltime writer in 2012\, Susan was the main commercial advisor on project finance and redevelopment to English Heritage\, the National Trust\, five British government departments\, and the Palace for the restoration of historic assets to alternative use\, including St. Pancras Chambers\, Giant’s Causeway\, and HMY Britannia. She was the Chief Executive of the British Shakespeare Association from 2009-2011 and Secretary and Treasurer of the Biographer’s Club from 2007-2011. She lives in a quintessential Cotswold village near Oxford with her writer husband and has three grown children. \nAmanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers\, ‘Georgiana\, Duchess of Devonshire’\, and ‘A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided’. In 2016\, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. That same year\, her BBC documentary series\, ‘The Ascent of Woman’\, was released. In 2019 she was invited to curate a special exhibition for Buckingham Palace as part of its summer opening. \nForeman has been a columnist for The Sunday Times and the Smithsonian Magazine. Currently\, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly ‘Historically Speaking’. Her next book\, ‘The World Made by Women: A New History of Humanity’\, is scheduled to be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. She is also a CBS News royal contributor.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-susan-ronald-hitlers-aristocrats-the-secret-power-players-in-britain-and-america-who-supported-the-nazis-1923-1941-with-amanda-foreman/
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/London:20230713T183000
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Depravity’s Rainbow: A Dark History of Space Travel
DESCRIPTION:Depravity’s Rainbow explores the influence of imperialism\, the Holocaust\, and the Cold War on contemporary space exploration. When and where does the history of space exploration begin? For many people\, it might be in 1969\, when American astronauts landed on the moon\, for others it might be in 1953 when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite. But the first manmade object to reach space in fact arrived far earlier\, in 1944\, and it was not a peaceful scientific instrument\, but a ballistic rocket\, a violent weapon of war built by slave labourers in a German concentration camp. \nDepravity’s Rainbow examines the origins of rocketry and space exploration during the Holocaust\, when nascent space technology was mobilised by the Nazi regime as a weapon which they hoped might turn the tide of war. The book focuses on the developers of these rockets\, many of whom were not avid Nazis\, but who made a Faustian pact to pursue rocketry. After the war many of these men went on to work prominently at organisations like NASA\, and so this wartime pact and the post-war choice to utilise the knowledge that it produced continues to haunt the field of space exploration nearly a century later. \nDepravity’s Rainbow employs a mixture of contemporary photographs made during visits to key early rocket development sites across Europe\, many of them today largely forgotten\, alongside historic photographs\, documents\, and other materials from a variety of government and scientific archives. Alongside these texts\, an extended essay examines the history and politics of space technology\, and the way that the militaristic dimensions of this field have often hidden themselves behind a cloak of peaceful civilian science. \nShortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2018 and 2020\, The Kassel book award 2019\, and the Aftermath Grant 2018. \nAbout the speaker\nLewis Bush is a researcher and photographer. His photographic projects focus on the activities of powerful and often inscrutable organisations\, and the role their current or past actions play in shaping the world we know. Previous projects have focused on fields ranging from intelligence gathering to multinational property development and offshore finance. \nHis books and prints are held in national and international collections including at The Museum of London (UK)\, The Victoria & Albert Museum Library (UK)\, The Tate Library (UK)\, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)\, The Library of Congress (USA) Wende Museum (USA)\, Luma Foundation (FR)\, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DE). \nHe is senior lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London\, and a current PhD researcher at the London School of Economics department of media and communication. \nChaired By:\nJames Bulgin is Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and was previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. He has recently completed his PhD at Royal Holloway College\, University of London on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history and he has an MA (with distinction) in Holocaust Studies. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film and he has presented papers at conferences in the UK\, Germany and Israel. He is the author of the book The Holocaust and is the presenter of How the Holocaust Began for the BBC.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-depravitys-rainbow-a-dark-history-of-space-travel/
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/London:20230706T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Fate Unknown\, Dan Stone in conversation with Christine Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this hybrid event as part of its new academic book series. Participants can register to attend in person or online.     \nIn his newest book\, Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism\, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II\, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite them with loved ones. \nFrom retracing the steps of the ‘death marches’ with the aim of discovering the burial sites of those murdered across the towns and villages of Central Europe\, to knocking on doors of German foster homes to find the children of forced labourers\, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive and its more than 30 million documents. \nUnder the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross\, the tracing service became one of the most secretive of postwar institutions\, unknown even to historians of the period. Delving deeply into the archival material\, Stone examines the little-known sub-camps and\, after the war\, survivors’ experience of displaced persons’ camps\, bringing to life remarkable stories of tracing. Fate Unknown combs the archives to reveal the real horror of the Holocaust by following survivors’ horrific journeys through the Nazi camp system and its aftermath. \nThe postwar period was an age of shortage of resources\, bitterness\, and revenge. Yet the ITS tells a different story: of international collaboration\, of commitment to justice\, and of helping survivors and their relatives in the context of Cold War suspicion. These stories speak to a remarkable attempt by the ITS\, before the Holocaust was a matter of worldwide interest\, to carry out a programme of ethical repair and to counteract some of the worst effects of the Nazis’ crimes. \n  \nAbout the Speakers \n  \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous books\, including The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Pelican\, 2023). \n  \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. \n  \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n  \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\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-book-talk-fate-unknown-dan-stone-in-conversation-with-christine-schmidt/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens
DESCRIPTION:This event is hosted with Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries and the Royal Holloway Holocaust Research Institute\, as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP).\nFrom Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth multi-country field research from the Armenian Genocide\, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide\, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. Offering an analysis of all these particular human rights as they are violated in genocide\, the author intricately brings together genocide studies and human rights\, demonstrating how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate. Dr O’Brien then applies the pattern of rights violations to the Rohingya Genocide\, revealing that this pattern could have been used to prevent the violence against the Rohingya\, before advocating for a greater role for human rights oversight bodies in genocide prevention. \nThe pattern ascertained through the research in this book offers a resource for governments and human rights practitioners as a mid-stream indicator for genocide prevention. It can also be used by lawyers and judges in genocide trials to help determine whether genocide took place. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia\, and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). Her work on forced marriage has been cited by the International Criminal Court\, she has appeared before the ICC as an amicus curia and been an expert consultant for several UN bodies. She recently received a 10-year service medal for volunteering with the Australian Red Cross in the International Humanitarian Law Committee\, and was awarded the Filon Ktenidis Award by the Pontian Society of Sydney for her work on justice and recognition for victims of genocide. \nDr O’Brien has conducted research across six continents and was a 2022 Research Fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum. She is a 2023 Visiting Fellow at the University of Loughborough and a 2023-34 Visiting Professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, University of Minnesota. Dr O’Brien the author of Criminalising Peacekeepers: Modernising National Approaches to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens. She tweets @DrMelOB. \nChaired by: \nDr Rebecca Jinks a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism. 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-from-discrimination-to-death-genocide-process-through-a-human-rights-lens/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230629T140000
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SUMMARY:Roma Voices: The Patrin\, Testimony & Archive
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion with Brolly Productions focusing on the importance of celebrating and sharing testimonies from the Roma community. \nThis event will launch The Patrin*\, an aural installation featuring female Roma voices and there will be a live performance by Sindy Czureja from ‘The Stopping Place’ opera. \nBrolly collaborated with The Wiener Holocaust Library to create this new operawork featuring central roles for performers from the Roma community and drawing on music from the Roma tradition exploring the sensitive history of the Roma holocaust. Brolly Productions will host this event which examines approaches for ‘conscious collaboration’ between Roma communities and archival institutions to ensure these important voices are heard.Representatives include; The Roma Support Group\, The Wiener Holocaust Library and The University of East London. \n* Patrin is a Roma term for the sign posts\, symbols and messages that communities leave for each other at the atchin tans [stopping places].
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/roma-voices-the-patrin-testimony-archive/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230628T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230628T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230321T141128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Red Cross Messages from Nazi Germany\, with Anthony Grenville
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nRed Cross messages had been introduced during the First World War\, when an urgent need developed for a means that would re-establish the communications that had been severed by the conflict\, for example between prisoners of war and their families at home. During the Second World War\, as conventional means of communication were increasingly denied to Jews trapped in the Third Reich\, Red Cross messages came to play a vital part in what remained of the contacts between those Jews and their family members who had escaped abroad; little systematic attention has\, however\, as yet been devoted to them. The restriction of those contacts to brief messages of 25 words reflected the cruel restrictions that were imposed on Jews in the Third Reich in almost all aspects of the final stage of their lives before their deportation to the east. This talk will examine as an example the communications between my mother\, Gertrude Grünfeld (Grenville)\, in London and her parents in Vienna\, as these developed from normal letters to the use of a post office box in neutral Portugal and finally to Red Cross messages.  \nAbout the Speaker  \nDr Anthony Grenville\, BA\, D.Phil (Oxford)\, lectured in German at the Universities of Reading\, Bristol and Westminster\, 1971-96. He worked for the Association of Jewish Refugees\, including as Editor of its monthly publication\, AJR Journal\, 2006-17. He is a founder member of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London\, and has been its Chair since 2013. He served on the executive committee of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (Society for Exile Studies) and was awarded honorary membership in 2021. He co-created the exhibition Continental Britons (Jewish Museum\, 2002) and co-founded the AJR’s Refugee Voices collection of filmed interviews. He has published numerous books and articles in the field of exile studies\, including Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain\, 1933-1970 (2010).  \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-exhibition-talk-red-cross-messages-from-nazi-germany-with-anthony-grenville/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230623T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230602T155452Z
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SUMMARY:Living Memory: Photographic Exhibition and Slideshow\, Reception with the artist
DESCRIPTION:Produced during the summer of 2020\, the Living Memory project showcases artist Catrine Val’s poignant and astonishing photographic portraits of London’s Jewish community. The project was produced during the profound dislocation caused by the pandemic and as the Holocaust begins to slip slowly from ‘living memory’. \n\n\n\nVal’s unique photographic portraits feature Holocaust survivors and those whose parents arrived as part of the ‘Kindertransport’\, as well as Jewish families from all over the world who have made London their home. They will be shown at the Library from the 19 – 23 June\, marking Refugee Week. \nThe project has personal resonance for Val\, who is engaged in an ongoing process of seeking context and greater understanding of her own German-Jewish heritage\, a history which she has only recently been able to acknowledge and engage with. \nLiving Memory is part of Migration: a public history festival\, a series of lectures\, exhibitions\, workshops and walks around London\, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. The exhibition will be shown alongside the Wiener Library’s Holocaust Letters exhibition. This event will be held in the exhibition space with a chance to see the project in person. \nThere is no need to register as an attendee\, please simply arrive at the Library for 3pm.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/living-memory-photographic-exhibition-and-slideshow-reception-with-the-artist/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230622T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230622T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230510T124359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2023: The Erosion of Human Rights Protections for Refugees in the UK\, with René Cassin
DESCRIPTION:Both the recent Nationality and Borders Act and the Illegal Migration Bill currently being debated in Parliament contribute to an increasingly difficult situation for asylum-seekers and refugees in the UK. \nRefugees seeking safety on our shores after fleeing persecution and violence face: \n\nThe complete lack of ‘safe and legal routes’ outside bespoke schemes or resettlement programmes\nThe shrinking of human rights obligations and endangering of vulnerable people by outsourcing asylum to third countries\nThe cruel\, inhumane\, and ineffective practice of immigration detention\nThe ill-conceived conflation of immigration policy with policies on trafficking and slavery\n\nIn this joint event\, René Cassin and the Wiener Library build on the 2023 Refugee Week’s theme of ‘compassion’ and explore the UK’s attitudes and commitment to refugees over time – from attitudes\, policy and practical implementation – and a hopeful and positive change to the current situation. \nOur panel will explore: \nThe past – the legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the Refugees Convention (1951); The present – the current framework\, and how today’s refugees experience it; The future – the hopeful potential of alternative paths and approaches. \nAbout the speakers\nDr Louise London: Louise is author of the leading book\, Whitehall and the Jews 1933-1948: British Immigration Policy\, Jewish refugees and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press\, 2000). She has published and lectured widely on the history of British policy towards immigrants\, Jews and refugees since 1900. Once a practicing lawyer specialising in immigration cases\, she is currently writing an article on 20th century legal restrictions on the rights of aliens. \nEnver Solomon: Enver is Chief Executive Officer at Refugee Council. Before joining the Refugee Council\, he held senior management posts at the National Children’s Bureau\, the Children’s Society and Barnardos. He has also sat on advisory boards at the Department for Education\, HM Inspector of Prisons and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. His Chairmanship roles have included the Standing Committee for Youth Justice\, End Child Poverty Campaign and the trustee board of Asylum Aid. \nZofia Duszynska: Zofia is a Director in the Immigration department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. She supervises a team of solicitors and caseworkers and specialise in asylum\, human rights and public law work\, representing victims of torture\, human trafficking and gender-based persecution as well as those excluded from the protection of the Refugee Convention. \nDr Toby Simpson and Mia Hasenson-Gross (Moderators): Toby is Director of the Wiener Holocaust Library and Mia is René Cassin’s Executive Director.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/the-erosion-of-human-rights-protections-for-refugees-in-the-uk-with-rene-cassin/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230620T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230620T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230322T153425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Lord Daniel Finkelstein and Professor Philippe Sands
DESCRIPTION:An event to mark the publication of Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival  \nDaniel 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 speakers\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. \nPhilippe Sands is Professor of public understanding of Law at University College London\, and Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is the former President of English PEN and on the board of the Hay Festival of Arts and Literature. Author of many books\, including East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020)\, Philippe is an occasional contributor to many publications\, including The Guardian\, Financial Times and New York Times\, and appears regularly on the BBC and CNN. His next book\, The Last Colony\, was published in September 2022.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/in-conversation-lord-daniel-finkelstein-and-professor-philippe-sands/
LOCATION:Beveridge Hall\, Beveridge Hall\, Senate House\, University of London\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230331T140704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Jewish Archives\, Artefacts and Memory in Transit
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library’s current exhibition\, Holocaust Letters\, examines Holocaust-era private correspondence as sites of knowledge production as well as for their traces of the material past\, including enforced Jewish migration. \nWith the soon-to-launched virtual Holocaust Letters exhibition as a starting point\, this virtual panel will explore new ways and research into thinking about archives\, artefacts and other primary sources\, including material sources as well as those not held in traditional archives to help us gain deeper insight into the history of Jewish refugees in transit and the knowledge those migrants possessed\, produced\, transmitted\, or lost. \nThe panelists will discuss what happens when migrants leave their homes and try to convey both the sense of loss and the disorienting experience of learning to live somewhere new\, in correspondence and artefacts that capture experiences before\, during or after their migration. In terms of correspondence\, how are their words crafted and understood\, depending on who they are writing to and when? How do Holocaust-era letters\, photographs\, and other artefacts communicate experiences? What happens to the “archive” in the context of transoceanic migration or persecution\, such as the Holocaust? \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership in partnership with the German Historical Institute London\, the German Historical Institute Washington with its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley\, and the California Institute of Technology. \nSpeakers: \n\nDr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Wiener Holocaust Library: Introduction and Holocaust Letters\nProf Simone Lässig\, Director\, German Historical Institute Washington: The Research Field „In Global Transit“ – An Introduction\nDr Anna-Carolin Augustin\, Research Fellow\, German Historical Institute Washington: Jewish Ritual Objects in Transit: Archives of Knowledge or Vessels of Memory?\nDr Indra Sangupta\, Head of India Research Programme\, German Historical Institute London: Notes on The City as Refuge: Jewish Calcutta and Refugees from Hitler’s Europe. An Exhibition held in Calcutta in February 2018\nProf Christina von Hodenberg\, Director\, German Historical Institute London: Closing Remarks\n\n  \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n  \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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-panel-jewish-archives-artefacts-and-memory-in-transit/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230613T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230613T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230518T092826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Orwell Festival 2023: Orwell & Antisemitism
DESCRIPTION:As part of this year’s Orwell Festival\, join George Orwell’s official biographer D. J. Taylor (Orwell: The New Life)\, historian Dan Stone (The Holocaust: An Unfinished History) and chair Jean Seaton (Director\, The Orwell Foundation) for this special Orwell Festival event at The Wiener Holocaust Library as they consider attitudes to Jews\, Jewishness and antisemitism in George Orwell’s writing and journalism. \nFull details about the festival can be found here. \nBook tickets for this event here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/orwell-festival-2023-orwell-antisemitism/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230612T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230612T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230321T140909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Letters as People: Emotion and Information in the Correspondence of German-Jewish Refugees from Nazism 1933-45
DESCRIPTION:A composite letter from members of the Böhm family in Antwerp to Theodor Hirschberg in London. University of Southampton Special Collections\, Papers of Theodor Hirschberg\, MS 314/1/77  \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nThe 1930s/40s saw thousands of German-Jewish refugees seek asylum in locations across the world\, with the by-product being the enforced fracturing of family networks and the shared world in which they inhabited. During this period\, contact between separated family members continued\, albeit minimised\, with the aim of gaining information on the health and location of loved ones being of primary importance. Abruptly\, space was injected into close familial relationships\, with letters acting as the bridge between separated parties and thus creating their own metaphysical ‘epistolary space’ often in replacement of physical spaces. Conversations on emigration efforts\, familial life and geopolitical concerns moved from within the home on to pieces of paper\, as family units dispersed. Discussions altered and adapted into a new epistolary space\, albeit one often burdened with the ineffability of their situation.   \nIn this presentation\, postgraduate researcher Charlie Knight will discuss the correspondences of five families whose archives are held in both private collections and public institutions. The presentation will touch upon a number of key research questions including: How did the writers and addressees understand the role and importance of these letters? What emotional strategies can be identified within the correspondences? How is information/knowledge disused and transferred within this new ‘epistolary space’? And what early knowledge of the Holocaust could be ascertained from these objects? Finally this presentation will reflect on the methodology and place of the researcher within this project\, as well as the letters’ hapticity and materiality.   \nCharlie Knight is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities for his research into German-Jewish refugees from Nazism in Britain. Charlie was the joint postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies in the 2021/22 academic year\, and currently teaches German History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at UCL. He is also the co-organiser of the international workshop ‘Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies’ held at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, and has himself spoken at conferences in the UK\, Germany and Israel. His most recent publication ‘Constructing narratives: considerations in the letters of Theodor M. W. Hirschberg and his family’ was published in Jewish Culture and History in 2022. 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-letters-as-people-emotion-and-information-in-the-correspondence-of-german-jewish-refugees-from-nazism-1933-45/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230606T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230213T160149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151235Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Curators’ Talk: Holocaust Letters with Christine Schmidt\, Sandra Lipner
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online.  \nJoin the curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition\, Holocaust Letters\, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition. Their talk will discuss key letters on display\, the ethics and practice of curating personal document collections\, the role of the archive in mediating the past\, and reflections on co-curating with historians and families. \nAbout the Speakers:\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. \nSandra Lipner is a technē (AHRC)-funded doctoral student at Royal Holloway\, University of London and a co-curator of the Holocaust Letters exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her PhD thesis is a cultural family history based on her German family’s collection of letters and documents from the period 1933-45\, and she studies the use of family history in microhistories of the Holocaust to evaluate its place within the historiography of the Third Reich. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \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-curators-talk-holocaust-letters-with-christine-schmidt-sandra-lipner/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230605T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230605T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230213T155943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Translating Holocaust Letters with Jenifer Ball
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nIn this hands-on lunchtime talk\, Jenifer Ball will demonstrate how she translated a German letter on display in the exhibition. She will discuss how she approaches linguistic and cultural questions in personal papers and researches references to contemporary social life to create richly contextualised texts. \nSpeaker:  \nJenifer Ball was a teacher of German and French\, and translates from both languages. Her work has ranged from Baroque music to veterinary medicine\, and she particularly enjoys translating verse.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-translating-holocaust-letters-with-jenifer-bell/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230531T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230531T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230321T140200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Judith Kerr
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the centenary of Judith Kerr\, best-selling illustrator and author of books including When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit\, The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat\, and refugee from Nazi Germany. Author and academic Dr Deborah Vietor-Engländer will discuss Judith’s life from her time in Berlin and escaping Germany with her family in 1933 to coming to London early in 1936 as a refugee. \nAbout the speaker: Dr Deborah Engländer is the author of a 700 page biography of Judith´s father Alfred Kerr and also edited three volumes of his works. She was first given When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by her sister who was a Winton child to try and explain her own childhood. Deborah’s fascination with Alfred Kerr and the similarity with her own family history has inspired her work. She knew Judith Kerr well for many years and is President of the Alfred Kerr Foundation created by Judith and Sir Michael Kerr. \nBook for sale: Judith Kerr’s Creatures (Harper Collins) \nThis event is part of Migration: a public history festival\, a series of lectures\, exhibitions\, workshops and walks around London\, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. \nFrom 31st May a new mini-exhibition will be on display in the Wolfson Reading Room\, The Kerr Family in Flight. It includes fascinating objects and documents detailing the journey of Judith\, her brother and their parents as they fled  Nazi persecution.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/remembering-judith-kerr/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230524T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230524T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20221213T125102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Panel: Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies – Shirli Gilbert\, Joachim Schlör
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series and is the public evening event for the Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies workshop. Audiences can attend this event either in-person or online. \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership and Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton)\, are delighted to host this hybrid panel discussion with Prof Shirli Gilbert and Prof Joachim Schlör\, led in conversation by Charlie Knight\, on letters in Holocaust-related research. Both Gilbert and Schlör have conducted extensive research based on treasure troves of personal correspondence belonging to Jewish refugees. They will reflect on their significance for our understanding of everyday experiences of persecution and forced migration during the Holocaust. \nSpeakers:\nShirli Gilbert is Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London\, and a specialist in modern Jewish history\, with particular interest in the Holocaust and its legacies\, modern Jewish identity\, and Jews in South Africa. She is the author of From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2017) among numerous other books and essays. She holds a D. Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. Before coming to UCL\, she was Karten Professor of Modern History and Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. \nJoachim Schlör is Professor of Modern Jewish/non-Jewish Relations in History at the University of Southampton\, UK. He is the author of Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman’s Emigration from Heilbronn to England (2022)\, as well as Nights in the Big City: Paris\, Berlin\, London\, 1840 – 1930 (2016). He is the editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History\, and (with Johanna Rolshoven) co-editor of the online journal Mobile Culture Studies. \nChair:\nCharlie Knight is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the recipient of the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities for his research on German-Jewish refugees in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s. His most recent article with Jewish Culture and History looks at narrative construction in the letter collection of Theodor Hirschberg. He is also co-organiser of the workshop: ‘Letter Writing in Holocaust Studies’. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online:\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-panel-letter-writing-in-holocaust-studies-shirli-gilbert-joachim-schlor/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230517T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230517T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230220T103518Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Revision: Democracy and Nazism - The Racial State
DESCRIPTION:Sign carried by group of Jewish men reads ‘God will not leave us’ following the events of the November Pogrom\, 1938.  \nIn the interwar period\, Germany was politically unstable. The trauma caused by the First World War and the Great Depression left many Germans disheartened and susceptible to extremist ideas. \nThe Nazi Party seemingly offered hope and solutions. The Party condemned the unpopular Treaty of Versailles and offered an explanation for Germany’s problems – the Jews. Although this was not a new idea in Germany\, where antisemitism had been growing since the start of the century\, Nazi ideology placed antisemitism and racist ideas at its centre. \nThis revision session\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi’s creation of a ‘Racial State’. It will explore the radicalisation of the state; Nazi racial ideology; increasing antisemitic policies and actions as well as the treatment of Jews in the early years of war by looking at the development of ghettos and deportations. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following:  \n\nKS3 History\nGCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939\nGCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955\, The People and The State\nEdexcel A-Level History: Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\nOCR History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nAQA History: Democracy and Nazism\, Germany 1918-1945
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-revision-democracy-and-nazism-the-racial-state-2/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230322T102235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: Write at once and in detail: the re-creation of Mimi and her family\, with Marion Macalpine
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series.  \nWhen there is silence in a family about its history\, the urge to know can become intense. Marion Macalpine\, author of “Write at once and in detail: the re-creation of Mimi and her family”\, will introduce the gripping story she has put together from torn up family letters sent between Vienna and England in 1930s and 40s. \nShe will raise the question of who has the right to know and who has the right to keep silent.  She will also describe the process of gathering clues from multiple sources and how she assembled the shreds into ‘almost breathing\, almost speaking individuals’ with all their turbulent history. \nIn discussion with Elise Bath\, ITS Archive Team Manager at The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-write-at-once-and-in-detail-the-re-creation-of-mimi-and-her-family-with-marion-macalpine/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230516T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230126T140910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Holocaust or Indifference? The history of the Ethiopian Jews under Italian fascist rule
DESCRIPTION:Carlo Alberto Viterbo and Tamraat Emmanuel (Viterbo’s Collection\, Central Zionist Archives\, Jerusalem)  \nWithin the context of the fascist conquest of Ethiopia\, the history of the Ethiopian Jews\, the Beta Israel\, is significant. After the arrival of Italian troops in the 1930s\, the Jewish group\, which has always been divided by the Christian majority\, gained special treatment. \nHowever\, the regime’s attitude towards them changed due to the 1938 racial laws. Ethiopian Jews seemed to disappear from the focus of the fascist government\, the Italian Jewish press was forced to close down and the break-up of South African troops on the scene of World War II reshaped Ethiopia and its rule. Many years afterwards\, research on the Beta Israel resumed and some community members have called for their fates and experiences to be considered part of the Holocaust. \nIs it possible to talk about them as victims of genocide? Can we talk about Ethiopian Jews as Holocaust victims? These questions pave the way to new research fields that historiography has neglected and combine topics often neglected in Holocaust studies: racism\, antisemitism and colonialism. \nAbout the speaker\nMatteo D’Avanzo is a PhD candidate in History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and INALCO\, Paris. He is a fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoa and Yad Vashem. In 2022/2023 he is a visiting fellow of the Vidal Sassoon Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in spring 2023 he will be visiting fellow of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway University of London. His research deals with the history of Ethiopian Jews from the Italian fascist rule to the official recognition by the State of 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-holocaust-or-indifference-the-history-of-the-ethiopian-jews-under-italian-fascist-rule/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230515T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230515T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230213T155720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: Jane Haining’s Letter from Auschwitz and the Foundation of a Christo-centric Myth\, Dr Alex Sessa
DESCRIPTION:Caption: Jane Haining copyright owner\, Public domain\, via Wikimedia Commons  \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nThis lecture examines Jane Haining through a microhistory approach. Haining was a Scottish missionary who worked among Christian and Jewish girls in Budapest\, with the intention of bringing Jews into the Christian church. The chief conversionary tactic was to lead a ‘Christian example’. Jane Haining elected to remain in Budapest throughout the war\, which subsequently led to her arrest in March 1944. Subsequently\, she was transported to Auschwitz where she was murdered. Communication from Haining is scant\, but what little information exists is frequently used to present her as a selfless ‘Christian martyr’. Haining’s letters\, including her final correspondence from Auschwitz\, tell us little about her experiences. Sessa argues that the Church of Scotland uses these letters to offer an apologetic narrative of its own missionary past\, and identifies this as a dangerous trend within the context of memory studies. \nSpeaker: \nDr Alex Sessa completed his PhD in Holocaust Studies at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Professor Tony Kushner. His research interests include Memory Studies\, Jewish-Christian relations\, Gender Studies\, and Public History. He currently authors articles examining antisemitism and racism. \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please 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). \n3. If 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \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. \nUnfortunately\, this event has to be postponed. It will be rescheduled and a new date announced soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-jane-hainings-letter-from-auschwitz-and-the-foundation-of-a-christo-centric-myth-dr-alex-sessa/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230511T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
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SUMMARY:Day 2: Symposium: New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This two-day\, in-person symposium\, organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge\, will be held at the Library 10 – 11 May 2023. It will bring together early career researchers and senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide. \nCo-convenors: Dr Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Clara Dijkstra\, The Wiener Holocaust Library and University of Cambridge\, Dr Celia Donert\, University of Cambridge \nDay 2\n9:30 – 10:30: Keynote lecture by Volha Bartash: ‘On agency and resistance\, Roma in the Soviet partisan movement’\nChair: Barbara Warnock \n10:45 – 12:45: Panel 4\, Commemoration and transitional justice\nChair: Ian Rich\nMaëlle Lepitre: ‘Remembering the Roma genocide: The case of the Buchenwald memorial after 1989/1990’\nRenata Berkyová: ‘Searching for ways to remember the Holocaust of Czech Roma and Sinti in the 1960s and Early 1970s’\nLara Raabe: ‘Between bureaucracy and agency: Romani voices in West Berlin restitution proceedings’\nVerena Meier: ‘New perpetrator research and voices of the oppressed: The NS genocide against Sinti and Roma in Magdeburg and Transitional Justice after 1945 \n13:45 – 14:45: Panel\, 5 State perspectives\, perpetration and responses\nChair: Barbara Warnock\nAlexander Korb: ‘Genozide ante Portas? Bavarian anti-traveler legislation and practice in the 1920s’\nLászló Csősz: ‘Anti-Roma violence in Hungary during the last months of World War II’ \n14:45 – 15:45: Panel 6\, Roma children and the Holocaust\nChair: Toby Simpson\nAisling Shalvey: ‘Identification of victims and uncovering injustice in the Noma experiment on Roma children at Auschwitz’\nJustyna Matkowska: ‘Roma orphans in the southeastern area of occupied Poland during WWII’ \n16:00 – 17:00: Final roundtable: New directions in the study of the Roma genocide\nChair: Christine Schmidt\nKarola Fings\, Ari Joskowicz\, Volha Bartash \n17:00: Concluding remarks & end \n\nExplore the full Draft Programme here. \nThis symposium is generously supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund through the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge\, and the Past & Present Society.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/day-2-symposium-new-directions-in-the-study-of-the-roma-genocide/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230323T114056Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Public Lecture: Ari Joskowicz: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Held as part of the Symposium on New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide and in association with the Fraenkel Prize  \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\, Jews’ experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts\, scholars\, educators\, curators\, and politicians\, while the genocide of Europe’s Roma was largely ignored. Responding to this imbalance\, many Roma came to rely on Jewish institutions\, funding sources\, and professional networks as they sought to gain recognition for their wartime suffering. \nThis presentation charts the resulting evolving relationship between Roma and Jews since the Holocaust. During the Nazi era\, Jews and Roma were largely proximate strangers with little in common besides their experience of simultaneous persecution. Yet many decades of entwined struggles for justice have deepened Romani-Jewish relations\, which now centre not only on commemorations of past genocides but also contemporary debates over antiracism and Zionism. \nAbout the speaker\nAri Joskowicz is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the university’s Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. He is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust (2023)\, which won the Fraenkel Prize 2022\, and The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France (2014)\, and editor of Secularim in Question: Jews and Judaim in Modern Times (2015). \nChair: Dr Celia Donert\, Associate Professor in Central European History\, University of Cambridge. \nRain of Ash: Roma\, Jews\, and the Holocaust will be available to purchase on the night. \n  \nEvent guidelines for those joining online: \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders. \n2. Please 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). \n3. If 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. \n4. The event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. \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-public-lecture-ari-joskowicz-roma-jews-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230510T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
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SUMMARY:Day 1: Symposium: New Directions in the Study of the Roma Genocide
DESCRIPTION:This two-day\, in-person symposium\, organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library and the University of Cambridge\, will be held at the Library 10 – 11 May 2023. It will bring together early career researchers and senior academics to discuss new directions in the study of the Roma genocide. \nCo-convenors: Dr Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, Clara Dijkstra\, The Wiener Holocaust Library and University of Cambridge\, Dr Celia Donert\, University of Cambridge. \nDay 1 \n10:00 – 11:30: Panel 1\, Microhistory (1)\nChair: Celia Donert\nGrégoire Cousin: ‘The fate of the Roma deported to Suha-Balca farm: writing a collective history of the victims’\nAnna Míšková: “The Return Unwanted’\, the story of one family against the background of Nazi persecution in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’\nPaula Simon: ‘A mosaic of sources: Writing a microhistory of the Samudaripen in Niš\, Serbia’ \n11:45 – 13:15: Panel 2\, Microhistory (2)\nChair: Barbara Warnock\nPetre Matei: ‘Roma women’s petitions to rescue their deported families: A case study from Romania’\nMichala Lônčíková: “Detention Camp for Gypsies’ in Dubnica nad Váhom in the Romani testimonies from the compensation files of Slovakia’\nLaura Stoebener: ‘Thirteen Dossiers: Survivors of the genocide of Roma in Belgium’ \n14:15 – 16:15: Panel 3\, Testimonies as objects of analysis\nChair: Clara Dijkstra\nAleksandra Szczepan: ‘Negotiating testimonial agency: Nowa Huta Roma in Holocaust archives’\nEva Sammadar: ‘Embodying suffering of Roma in Serbia between 1941 and 1944 through arts and oral testimonies’\nHelena Sadílková and Lada Viková: ‘Experiences difficult to communicate’: Post-war testimonies by Jan Ištvan\, a Romani Holocaust survivor\, and the history of his family in the Czech lands’\nMaria Bogdan: ‘Self-Representation: Survivor interviews as trauma texts and as part of the deconstructive shift of the Romani movements’ \n18:30-19:45: Keynote lecture by Ari Joskowicz: ‘Roma\, Jews and the Holocaust’\nChair: Celia Donert \nExplore the full Draft Programme here. \nThis symposium is generously supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund through the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge\, and the Past & Present Society.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/day-1-symposium-new-directions-in-the-study-of-the-roma-genocide/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism and Anti-Gypsyism,Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072455
CREATED:20230403T153256Z
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SUMMARY:Film launch: The Wiener Holocaust Library at 90 - 'Witness' and 'An Audio Testimony'
DESCRIPTION:Filming taking place at the Library  \nA still from the short film\, ‘Witness’  \nTo mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam\, we are kicking off a year of events and activities with the launch of two very short films\, commissioned to mark this important year for the Wiener Library\, the longest continuously running archive of documents on the Nazi era and the Holocaust in the world. \nInspired by the stories that the Library’s family papers’ collection contain\, Director Katia Lom has created Witness\, a powerful reflection on the impact of the Holocaust on families and individuals. \nDirector James Alexandrou was struck by the breadth and depth of the Library’s collections\, and the power of the voices of those recorded in our audio oral histories\, and he has created a dynamic visual and auditory representation of our archive in An Audio Testimony. \nJames said of the project: “As we hurtle towards a world of advanced chatbots and deep fake AI video generators\, it struck me how vital original testimony is and that an archive such as the Wiener Holocaust library is preserved and exposed to the world as much as possible. It’s been a privilege finding a voice like Leon’s and telling a tiny part of such an important story. Thank you for the continued guidance from the Library\, Venetia and the National Film and Television School\, and to our Exec\, Jonathan Glazer”. \nAward-winning writer-director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin; Sexy Beast) mentored the filmmakers during this project. \nBoth films have been produced in association with the National Film and Television School. \nWith thanks to:  \nVenetia Hawes \nAJR Refugee Voices Archive and Bea Lewkowicz \nWitness \nDirector: Katia Lom\, Producer: Shereen Ali\, Featuring: Peter Briess \nAn Audio Testimony \nDirector: James Alexandrou\, Producer: Emma Hanson\, Featuring: the voice of Leon Greenman
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/film-launch-the-wiener-holocaust-library-at-90-witness-and-an-audio-testimony-introduced-by-jonathan-glazer/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Wiener Library 90
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