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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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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:20241023T072902
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:20241023T072902
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:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230414T085114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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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:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230323T114056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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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:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230414T084330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151236Z
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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:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230403T153256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230503T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230220T103540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Revision: Democracy and Nazism - The Nazi Dictatorship
DESCRIPTION:Adolf Hitler with Hjalmar Schacht (right)\, laying the foundation stone of the new construction of the Reichsbank\, 5th May 1934.  \nThe end of the First World War marked the beginning of a period of political and economic instability in Germany. As a result of this instability\, many small\, extremist political groups appeared. With the collapse of democracy\, one such party\, the NSDAP\, or Nazi Party\, rose to power in Germany. \nThis revision session\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the Nazi Dictatorship. It will explore the idea of ‘the Terror State’; the role of the SS and Gestapo; opposition to the Nazis; Nazi propaganda and the extent of totalitarianism in Germany. \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-nazi-dictatorship-2/
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230314T141230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Book event: A Dual Perspective: Sir Konrad Schiemann and Sir Bernard Rix in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host this conversation between one of our patrons\, The Rt Hon Sir Bernard Rix KC\, and The Rt Hon Sir Konrad Schiemann about Schiemann’s recently published memoir A Dual Perspective: the German in an English Judge \nSir Bernard\, whose father fled to England before the war was Sir Konrad’s contemporary in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and now practices as an arbitrator. \nSir Konrad\, born of German parents\, spent the war in Berlin being bombed by the British\, became an orphan\, and moved to England in 1946 and started\, in his words\, aping the manners of an English gentleman. After practicing at the bar\, he became a High Court Judge\, a Lord Justice in the Court of Appeal and finished his career as the British Judge of the European Court of Justice. After having his family and life in Germany torn apart by conflict he forged a career around his desire to help in the construction of a peaceful Europe. \nIt was only late in life that Konrad realised the extraordinary family into which he had been born including a great-great grandfather who presided over five parliaments and the first German Supreme Court and a great-grandfather who was a friend of the last Kaiser. \nPiercing together extensive correspondence in the 1930s and 40s A Dual Perspective is the moving memoir of a family which has been involved in the construction of Europe since the first half of the nineteenth century and was faced with all the challenges posed by the Third Reich. \nOne of his grandfathers who joined the Nazi Party wrote letters\, which are reproduced in the book\, in 1933 to Konrad’s father\, engaged to a lady of Jewish extraction who became Konrad’s mother\, explaining why he has joined the Nazi Party and urging his son to do the same. However\, Konrad’s father did not. That grandfather’s sister was an open opponent of the regime and has been recognised as one of the Righteous among the Gentiles. His mother worked with Count Berthold von Stauffenberg and describes the atmosphere among those who plotted to assassinate Hitler and expected to be executed when the plot to assassinate Hitler failed. Most\, including many family friends\, were. The book describes the tensions within the family which nonetheless remained united. \nThe book is a mixture of history\, family memoir\, philosophical and political reflections\, describes an English education and upbringing in the last century and ends with a summary of the evolution of Konrad’s thoughts on national sovereignty and the European Union. \nModerated by: Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of the Wiener Holocaust Library
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-a-dual-perspective-sir-konrad-schiemann-and-sir-bernard-rix-in-conversation/
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:20230426T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230426T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230213T155434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Workshop: Found! Letters! with Deborah Jaffé
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nWhen Deborah Jaffé was clearing her parents’ flat she found a pile of damp and mouldy letters and papers. The 200 letters were written in German by her father in Berlin and dated between 1937-39. Many were carbon copies of letters he had typed on the typewriter he had given her. There were replies too\, as well as telegrams\, birth certificates\, a passport\, school reports\, job references\, train tickets and numerous application forms for emigration.   Despite her almost non-existent German\, she realised they were important and a young man’s attempts to get out. This has now gone from being a pile of 200 letters to an archive with its own biography. \nIn this workshop Deborah will discuss the practicalities of conserving and archiving found letters and papers. She will look at how the material is handled including: conservation\, scanning\, translation\, storage\, cataloguing\, dealing with the content\, the intended readership\, communication\, typewriters and carbon copies\, handwriting\, and discoveries made. Ephemera like train tickets\, as well as envelopes\, letter headings\, telegrams and details in photographs are all relevant to the narrative in letters\, especially within the context of the political climate. \nUsing addresses on the letters and envelopes\, it has been possible to map the places where the family had lived around Germany. Deborah will describe how this enabled her to make installations using material in the archive that related to people\, in places where they had been born\, lived\, and worked. Using this archive and the resources of numerous organisations\, Deborah has been able to discover more about those she knew and the fates of other family members she had not been told about. This is very different to the story she had been told about the getting out.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-talk-found-letters-with-deborah-jaffe/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230424T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230213T155123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Exhibition Talk: A Letter from Danzig: Understanding Jewish Family Correspondence from the First World War\, Dr Joe Cronin
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of George Fogelson  \nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series. \nLetters provide insight into their writers\, but how much can we learn about them from one letter? \nThis talk examines a Jewish nurse’s letter to her brother from the opening months of the First World War. The letter is replete with allusions to the unfolding military situation on the Eastern Front\, but it also offers a glimpse into her own journey of self-discovery – a newly trained nurse\, a woman who has realised that she ‘likes working’. \nThe talk will also focus on the challenges of reading correspondence written in archaic German in a near-indecipherable script. How much meaning can we truly recover from textual artefacts that were intended for somebody who knew their author far better than we do? \nSpeaker: \nJoseph Cronin is Lecturer in Modern German History at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in modern German\, Jewish and East European history and is currently writing a book about Jews in the Free City of Danzig (1920–39). \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/lunchtime-exhibition-talk-a-letter-from-danzig-understanding-jewish-family-correspondence-from-the-first-world-war-dr-joe-cronin/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: The Last Letter\, with Karen Baum Gordon
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.  \nBorn a German Jew in 1915\, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home\, turned on the car ignition\, and tried to end his life. After confronting her father’s attempted suicide\, Karen Baum Gordon\, Rudy’s daughter\, began a sincere effort to understand the sequence of events that led her father to that dreadful day in 2002. What she found were hidden scars of generational struggles reaching back to the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich.  \nIn The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle\, a Daughter’s Quest\, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust\, Gordon explores not only her father’s life story\, but also the stories and events that shaped the lives of her grandparents—two Holocaust victims that Rudy tried in vain to save in the late 1930s and early years of World War II. This investigation of her family’s history is grounded in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum\, Rudy’s mother and Karen’s grandmother\, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. In five parts\, Gordon examines pieces of these well-worn\, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to discover what her family experienced during the Nazi period and the psychological impact that reverberated from it in the generations that followed.  \nPart of the Legacies of War series\, The Last Letter is a captivating family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler’s rise to power\, through World War II and the Holocaust\, to the present-day United States. In recreating the fatal journeys of her grandparents and tracing her father’s efforts to save them an ocean away in America\, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family’s history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity. By inviting readers along on this journey\, Gordon manages to honor victim and survivor alike and shows subsequent generations—now many years after the tragic events of World War II—what it means to remember.  \nAbout the Speaker:  \nA graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School\, Karen Baum Gordon co-founded Strategic Horizons\, Inc.\, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. Karen is a Dallas native and now lives with her husband and black lab in Brooklyn\, New York\, and South Hero\, Vermont. She is an active member of Brooklyn Heights Synagogue and recently served as president of the congregation.  \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. \n\n\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes). \n\n\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\n\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date. 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-the-last-letter-with-karen-baum-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230417T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230417T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Taken from the Stroop Report\, the photograph shows German troops sweeping through the Warsaw ghetto\, May 1943.  \nWednesday 19th April 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising\, one of the largest forms of Jewish resistance to take place during the Holocaust. \nJews within the Warsaw Ghetto\, many armed with handmade weapons\, resisted the SS-led force as they entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. In response\, the Nazis destroyed the ghetto\, building by building\, forcing Jews remaining in hiding to appear or be killed. 27 days after the initial April attack\, on 16 May 1943\, the uprising was crushed. While the uprising ultimately failed\, it was an extremely significant display of resistance from Jews in Warsaw. \nThis talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the different types of resistance during the Holocaust; to study original archival material to comprehend the events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; to consider why the event was so significant and to reflect on the event 80 years on. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following:\nKS3 History \n\nEdexcel GCSE History: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939\nOCR GCSE History: 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-and-teacher-talk-marking-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
CATEGORIES:Education
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230404T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230404T203000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230321T164817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built into our World and How You Can Change It\, by Dave Rich
DESCRIPTION:The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and the Wiener Holocaust Library invite you to a celebration of Dave Rich’s newly published book\, Everyday Hate; How Antisemitism is Built Into Our World and How You Can Change It. \nThere will be a conversation between David Hirsh of the LCSCA and Goldsmiths College\, and Dave Rich. \nDr Dave Rich is one of the UK’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust\, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community\, and advises the police\, the Crown Prosecution Service\, football clubs\, political parties and many others about how to tackle antisemitism. Dave is a research fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. \nHe writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media including the New Statesman\, Guardian\, New York Times and Jewish Chronicle and regularly appears on TV and radio including for BBC News\, Sky News and ITV News. This is Dave’s second book\, following The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn\, Israel and Antisemitism. \nTo attend in-person\, email centre@londonantisemitism.com to register your place. To attne donline\, please sign up via the Eventbrite link below.\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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-everyday-hate-how-antisemitism-is-built-into-our-world-and-how-you-can-change-it-with-dave-rich/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230331T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230227T112412Z
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SUMMARY:Public Afternoon Lecture: Erin McGlothlin and Arriving at Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library and the Holocaust Research Institute\, Royal Holloway University of London\, through its Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership\, are delighted to jointly host this programme. \nIn her discussion of Elie Wiesel’s seminal text Night\, Erin McGlothlin will explore a binaristic tension inherent to the contemporary cultural imagination of the Holocaust\, which conceives of the experience of the concentration camp and killing center Auschwitz along both historical and mythical lines.  As she will argue\, the text’s depiction of the young Eliezer’s arrival at Auschwitz and his proximate encounter with mass death\, one of the most powerful scenes in the canon of Holocaust literature\, signals the transformation of the narrator’s historical account into a mythical narrative. \nErin McGlothlin is Professor of German and Jewish Studies and Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.  Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of fictional and non-fictional works of Holocaust literature and film\, including such topics as the generational discourse on the Holocaust\, the narrative structure of Holocaust literature and film\, perpetrator representation and perpetrator trauma\, and ethical questions related to Holocaust representation.  She is the author of Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration (2006) and The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (2021). Further\, she has co-edited four volumes: After the Digital Divide?: German Aesthetic Theory in the Age of New Digital Media (2009\, with Lutz Koepnick)\, Persistent Legacy: The Holocaust and German Studies (2016\, with Jennifer Kapczynski)\, The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and its Outtakes (2020\, with Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger)\, and Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust 15: The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives (2023\, with Avinoam Patt). \nMcGlothlin is co-editor (with Brad Prager) of the Camden House book series Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature\, Culture\, and Thought\, and she serves on the editorial boards of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies.  Together with Principal Investigator Stuart Taberner (University of Leeds)\, she serves as Co-Investigator for the project “Rethinking Holocaust Literature: Contexts\, Canons\, Circulations\,” which is funded by a $1.3 million grant from the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council. As part of this project\, McGlothlin and Taberner have been appointed co-editors of The Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature\, which will include contributions by over forty international experts in Holocaust representation and which aims to set the path of the scholarly discourse on the literature of the Holocaust for the next twenty-five years. \nChair: Professor Robert Eaglestone\, Holocaust Research Institute 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/public-afternoon-lecture-erin-mcglothlin-and-arriving-at-auschwitz-with-elie-wiesel/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:HGRP
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230330T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230228T094759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151237Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Reverberations and Tracings - Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series organised by the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership. \nTo mark the end of the  One Story Many Voices tour\, the Wiener Holocaust Library is hosting a panel discussion on Thursday 30th March 2023\, called Reverberations and Traces: Using Sound from Letters and Archive Sources. \nThe panel will include: \n\nNicola Baldwin\, writer of the story Alone But Together for the Manchester Jewish Museum and current co-chair of the audio committee of the Writers Guild\nJames Bulgin\, Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries\nProfessor Adam Ganz\, Head of Writers Room at StoryFutures and Executive Producer on the One Story Many Voices project\n\nChair\nProfessor Bryce Lease\, of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, who led the AHRC-funded project ‘Staging Difficult Pasts’ that considered immersive and performative strategies in contemporary museums with a specific focus on Holocaust histories. \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/virtual-exhibition-panel-reverberations-and-tracings-using-sound-from-letters-and-archive-sources/
CATEGORIES:HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230322T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Holocaust Letters and Family Histories – Ariana Neumann\, Peter Bradley
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series and is also part of the Library’s Family Histories of the Holocaust series. 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 are delighted to host this hybrid panel discussion with Ariana Neumann and Peter Bradley\, who will reflect on the significance of their family document collections for writing Second Generation memoirs. Ariana Neumann is the author of the award-winning When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains (2020) and Peter Bradley is the author of The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution (2022). They will be led in conversation by Sandra Lipner. \nSpeakers \nAriana Neumann is the New York Times bestselling author of When Time Stopped\, which won the Dayton Peace Prize for Non Fiction in 2021\, Best Memoir at the Jewish Book Awards in 2020 and was shortlisted for various prizes including The Wingate Prize. Ariana has a BA in History and French Literature from Tufts University\, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature from New York University and a PgDIP in Psychology of Religion from University of London. She previously was involved in publishing\, worked as a foreign correspondent for Venezuela’s The Daily Journal and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The European\, the Jewish Book Council and The New York Times. \nPeter Bradley is the author of The Last Train – A Family History of the Final Solution\, published in 2022. He was the Labour MP for The Wrekin between 1997 and 2005. More recently\, he co-founded and directed Speakers’ Corner Trust\, a charity which promotes freedom of expression\, open debate and active citizenship in the UK and developing democracies. He has written\, usually on politics\, for a wide range of publications\, including The Times\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, The New Statesman and The New European. \nModerated by: \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 the place of family history 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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-event-holocaust-letters-and-family-histories-ariana-neumann-peter-bradley/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,HGRP,Holocaust Letters
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230321T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230321T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
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SUMMARY:Talk: Dame Stephanie Shirley CH: ‘My Family in Exile’
DESCRIPTION:Dame Stephanie will also be signing copies of her new book\, So To Speak\, at the event. All proceeds from the book go to Autistica. \nDame Stephanie Shirley CH\, also known as Steve\, is a workplace revolutionary and successful IT entrepreneur turned ardent venture philanthropist. At 89 years old\, her story has many strands which\, woven together\, have produced a lifetime of exceptional achievements. \nDame Stephanie’s story begins with her 1939 arrival in Britain as an unaccompanied five-year-old Kindertransport refugee. This defining experience equipped her with fortitude at a very young age and made her determined to live a life worth saving. \nIn 1962\, she started a software house\, Freelance Programmers\, and pioneered radical new flexible work practices that changed the landscape for women working in technology. She went on to create a global business and a personal fortune which she shared with her colleagues\, making millionaires of 70 of her staff at no cost to anyone but herself. \nSince retiring in 1993\, Dame Stephanie’s life has been dedicated to venture philanthropy in the fields of IT and autism. She initially founded Autism at Kingwood in 1994 to support her late son Giles\, and her charitable Shirley Foundation went on to make grants of nearly £70 million.  It spent out in 2018 in favour of Autistica\, the UK’s national autism research charity founded by Dame Stephanie. In 2009/10 she served as the UK’s first ever national Ambassador for Philanthropy. \nDame Stephanie’s memoir Let It Go was first published in 2012 and re-published in 2019 for worldwide distribution. The first translated version was launched in Germany in 2020 and a Spanish translation is coming soon. Dame Stephanie is currently working with The Development Partnership\, to make a multi-part TV series with one of the major streaming services. During lockdown in 2020\, Dame Stephanie produced her second book\, So To Speak\, a collection of 29 of her speeches given over the last 40 years. All proceeds from the book go to Autistica. \nDame Stephanie has been much honoured.  In 2013\, she was named by Woman’s Hour as one of the 100 most powerful women in Britain.  In 2014\, the Science Council listed her as one of the Top 100 practicing scientists in the UK. In 2015\, Dame Stephanie was given the Women of the Year Special Award\, and in the same year her TED Talk received a standing ovation from more than a thousand of the world’s most recognised technical entrepreneurs\, thinkers\, creators and doers. It has since received 2.2m views on YouTube. In 2017\, Dame Stephanie received a Companion of Honour (CH)\, a membership limited to only 65 individuals globally\, for her services to the IT industry and philanthropy. \nFacebook: @DameStephanie  Instagram: @DameStephanie_  Twitter:  @DameStephanie_ \nwww.steveshirley.com
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/talk-dame-stephanie-shirley-my-family-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230320T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230320T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072902
CREATED:20230220T103556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151238Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Correspondence between Separated Families during the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Red Cross telegram from Alice Redlich to her family in Berlin\, 17th April 1942.  \nLetters were sent by post. Urgent messages arrived via telegram. When the postal routes were blocked during the war\, the Red Cross delivered messages. In the ghettos\, the Jewish councils were tasked with the organisation of the postal service and the ghetto post office. Jewish prisoners in concentration sometimes sent messages via Gestapo-controlled association. \nUsing The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archival material on correspondence to discuss the mechanics of communication between separated families during the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Head of Research) and Dr Barbara Warnock (Senior Curator and Head of Education) will explore how letters allowed separated family members to maintain connections and exchange information about the Holocaust. \nThis session is suitable for those teaching or 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\n\nThis event is organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-correspondence-between-separated-families-during-the-nazi-era-and-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Education,Holocaust Letters
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