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SUMMARY:A Virtual Talk: Defiance and Protest. Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Nazi Germany
DESCRIPTION:Professor Wolf Gruner\nLizi Rosenfeld on a park bench with a sign ‘Only for Aryans’\, August 1938\, Vienna \nPart of the Library’s Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust event series. \nJewish resistance during the Holocaust is largely understood as rare armed group activities in the Nazi-occupied East\, for example\, ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. By contrast\, this talk focused on forgotten individual acts of resistance\, like the case of Hertha Reis\, who protested in plain daylight against the persecution in 1941\, a few months before the mass deportation started in the capital of the Third Reich. She exclaimed in front of the Berlin courthouse “We lost everything. Because of the damned government\, we finally lost our home\, too. This thug Hitler\, the damned government\, the damned people. Just because we are Jews\, we are discriminated against.” \nBased on a new approach and using new sources\, as logbooks of Berlin police precincts\, trial materials from various German cities as well as video testimonies of survivors\, the talk demonstrated how Jewish women and men performed countless acts of resistance in Nazi Germany proper between 1933 and 1945. The examples that this nearly ten-year research unearthed demonstrated that Jews reacted not only to well-known national laws\, but also to anti-Jewish restrictions and violence at the local level. Jewish women and men of all ages and from all educational and professional backgrounds defied Nazi measures or raised their voices in protest. They developed changing response strategies over time: first against Nazi propaganda and exclusionary economic measures\, later against violent local attacks and municipal restrictions as well as the nationwide November pogrom and radical segregationist laws\, and finally against forced labour and deportation. \nThe fact that German Jews protested in public and that so many defied Nazi measures obliterates the common view of passivity on the part of the persecuted. Thus\, this research gives agency back to ordinary Jews in extraordinary circumstances. Many German Jews evolve as historical actors who resisted oppression. However\, their courageous acts still wait to be incorporated into the general narrative of the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany. \nAbout the speaker:\nWolf Gruner\nProfessor Gruner holds the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies\, is Professor of History at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles since 2008 and is the Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research since 2014. \nHe is the author of ten books on the Holocaust\, among them Jewish Forced Labor under the Nazis. Economic Needs and Nazi Racial Aims\, with Cambridge University Press (paperback 2008). His prizewinning book The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia. Czech Initiatives\, German Policies\, Jewish Responses (Berghahn 2019) was originally published in German with Wallstein (2016). It was translated into Czech (2019) and is forthcoming in Hebrew with Yad Vasehm (2021). Most recently\, Gruner coedited: With Steven Ross\, New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years\, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison (Purdue University Press 2019); and with Thomas Pegelow-Kaplan\, Resisting Persecution. Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust (Berghahn 2020). \nHe is currently finishing the manuscript of an exciting book about forgotten acts of individual defiance\, protest and resistance of German and Austrian Jews during the Holocaust. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.\n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-talk-defiance-and-protest-forgotten-individual-jewish-resistance-in-nazi-germany/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Fatherland and the Jews
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the publication of the inaugural title in a collaboration between the Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets\, Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful and German Judaism in Political\, Economic and Cultural Terms mark the first time that Dr Alfred Wiener\, the founder of the Library\, has been published in English. \n\nA sharp and insightful thinker\, Wiener’s writing reveals the critical role played by information and disinformation during the Antisemitic onslaught that followed Germany’s defeat in the First World War. Through tackling issues such as the planned rise of Antisemitism\, the scapegoating of minorities\, and the widespread use of propaganda\, these pamphlets speak as urgently to the contemporary moment as well as providing a window on to the past. \n\n\nTo mark this important publication the Library and JW3 hosted a panel event chaired by Toby Simpson\, director of the Wiener Holocaust Library. The panellists included Alfred Wiener’s grandson\, journalist Daniel Finkelstein\, Professor of Media History Jean Seaton and Professor of Modern Jewish History\, Michael Berkowitz. \n\n\nWatch back now
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-fatherland-and-the-jews/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210122T120000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
DESCRIPTION:With special guest Sir Kier Starmer\, Lord Eric Pickles and Rabbi Gordon\nA musical evening in the Łódź Ghetto\, c. 1940-1943. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThe Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 theme asks us to Be the Light in the Darkness. The Wiener Holocaust Library wishes to take this opportunity to draw attention to the incredible testimonies of survivors in our collections. This year’s theme asks us to recognise that the responsibility for education and prevention lies with all of us. As the distortion of the Holocaust has sadly become more widespread\, we have a greater responsibility than ever to face the truth about the nature of genocide and tackle the threat posed by propaganda and hate. \nWe are delighted to announce that the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition and local MP for Holborn and St Pancras\, Sir Keir Starmer\, will be joining The Wiener Holocaust Library for an online event to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day 2021. The event will feature readings drawn from the Library’s collections and reflections from The Rt Hon Lord Eric Pickles\, Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues\, and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon from the New London Synagogue. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210126T190000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Talk: New works on British Colonial Violence
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Library’s Racism\, Antisemitism\, Colonialism and Genocide event series. \nThis event marks the recent publication of two important contributions to our understanding of violence committed in the British Empire. These works challenge traditional understandings of the extent of colonial violence and the process of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. \nMichelle Gordon’s book\, Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan (Bloomsbury 2020)\, explores the commonalities in colonial warfare in Perak\, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Gordon highlights the significance of decision-making processes\, communication between London and the periphery and the influence of individual colonial administrators in outbreaks of violence. Michael Taylor’s The Interest – How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (Bodley Head 2020) explores how nearly every leading figure in the British establishment ensured that slavery – which had been outlawed by Parliament in 1807 – survived until 1833. When abolition finally came\, compensation was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders\, entrenching the power of their families to shape modern Britain to this day. \nThis conversation with the authors will explore the themes raised in their books and also examine why the issues of colonial violence and the abolition slavery in the British Empire have been misrepresented in traditional historiography and in British historical memory of the British Empire. \nAbout the speakers:\nDr Michelle Gordon\nDr Gordon is a researcher at the Hugo Valentin Centre\, Uppsala University. She currently heads the research project “The ‘Civilised’ Nature of Nineteenth-Century Warfare? British and German Practices of Violence in Colonial and Intra-European Wars”\, funded by the Swedish Research Council. She holds a PhD in History from Royal Holloway\, University of London. Gordon has specific research and teaching expertise in studies of genocide and mass violence\, with a focus on the British Empire. \nPraise for Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’:\n‘A powerful work of historical inquiry’ Professor Dan Stone\, Professor of History\, Royal Holloway \n‘This important book shows that rather than constituting an occasional ‘excess’\, extreme violence was a characteristic trait of Britain’s empire.’ Donald Bloxham\, Richard Pares Professor of History\, University of Edinburgh \nBuy a copy of Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’ here. \nDr Michael Taylor\nDr Taylor is a historian of colonial slavery\, the British Empire and the British Isles. He graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge\, where he earned his PhD – and also won University Challenge. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College\, Oxford\, and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies. \nPraise for The Interest:\n‘Scintillating … gripping … compulsively readable’ Guardian \n‘Fascinating … riveting and first-rate’ The Times \n‘A thoroughly researched and potent historical account’ David Lammy MP \nBuy a copy of The Interest here. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-talk-new-works-on-british-colonial-violence/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210128T180000
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SUMMARY:A Virtual Launch Event: Testifying to the Truth Digital Resource and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Kangisser-Cohen\, Mark Roseman\, Christine Schmidt and Jenifer Ball\nWe are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of our new digital resource\, Testifying to the Truth. This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust\, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated\, by a team of the Library’s volunteers\, into English for the first time. \n \nIn the 1950s\, Dr Eva Reichmann\, the Library’s Director of Research\, embarked on an ambitious effort to collect eyewitness accounts from those who had lived through the Holocaust. Over the course of seven years\, this initiative resulted in the gathering of more than 1\,300 written reports in seven different languages. The launch of the first 380 translated and digitised accounts will see the work started by Dr Reichmann in 1945 made fully accessible to the public. The rest of the 1\,185 testimonies will be released later this year. \nChaired by Dr Toby Simpson\, the Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library\, the panellists discussed the history of the collection\, the context of early Holocaust testimonies\, the significance of the collection for scholarship\, and the project of translation: \n\nChristine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, Wiener Holocaust Library.\nJenifer Ball\, Translator at The Wiener Holocaust Library.\nSharon Kangisser-Cohen\, Director at Eli and Diana Zborwoski Centre for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust and Editor\, Yad Vashem Studies.\nMark Roseman\, Distinguished Professor of History\, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies\, Adjunct Professor in Germanic Studies. Indiana University.\n\nWe are thankful to the Ministry for Housing\, Communities and Local Government whose support has enabled us to widen the access to this unique collection. \nWatch back now:\n \nThe Wiener Holocaust Library is a registered charity and we rely on our friends and supporters to continue and develop our vital work. Please consider making a donation today.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-launch-event-testifying-to-the-truth-digital-resource-and-panel-discussion/
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