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SUMMARY:A Virtual Event: Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award
DESCRIPTION:David Nott\, Iris Veysey & Lord Daniel Finkelstein\nHans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award 2021: Professor David Nott OBE FRCS\nAward to be presented by Lord Daniel Finkelstein.\nThe recipient of the Hans Albrecht Foundation Human Rights Award for 2021 is Professor David Nott\, Consultant Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital\, London. \nJewish refugee girls arriving at customs in Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Daily Herald\, 3 December 1938. \nProfessor Nott specialises in vascular and trauma surgery and also performs cancer surgery at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He is an authority in laparoscopic surgery and was the first surgeon to combine laparoscopic and vascular surgery. \nFor the past twenty-five years Nott has taken unpaid leave each year to work for the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières\, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria Relief. He has provided surgical treatment to patients in conflict and catastrophe zones in Bosnia\, Afghanistan\, Sierra Leone\, Liberia\, Ivory Coast\, Chad\, Darfur\, Yemen\, the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Haiti\, Iraq\, Pakistan\, Libya\, Syria\, Central African Republic\, Gaza and Nepal. As well as treating patients affected by conflict and catastrophe and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charitable causes\, Nott teaches advanced surgical skills to local medics and surgeons when he is abroad. In Britain\, he teaches the Surgical Training for the Austere Environment (STAE) course at the Royal College of Surgeons. \nIn 2015\, Professor Nott established the David Nott Foundation with his wife Elly. The Foundation supports surgeons in developing their operating skills for warzones and austere environments. In 2019\, Picador published David’s bestselling memoir\, War Doctor. \nHans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture: Iris Veysey: Refugees: Forced to Flee\nIn her lecture\, Iris Veysey explored a century of refugee experiences\, from Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews and the Kindertransport to the Calais ‘jungle’ and treacherous Mediterranean crossings. \nIris Veysey is Curator\, Art and Contemporary Conflict\, at the Imperial War Museum. She has recently worked on Refugees: Forced to Flee\, on display at the IWM until May 2021. Veysey has previously worked at the Victorian and Albert Museum and the Science Museum. \nHans Albrecht came to Britain on the Kindertransport. The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) strives to advance and promote human rights particularly in relation to children\, equalities\, disability\, children who are refugees and/or fleeing conflict and freedom from persecution on the grounds of race\, ethnicity and faith. \nWatch back now:
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/a-virtual-event-hans-albrecht-foundation-annual-lecture-and-human-rights-award/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Christine Schmidt\, Suzanne Bardgett\, Dan Stone and others\nWe are delighted to announce the publication of the proceedings of Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Sixth International Conference\, co-edited by Suzanne Bardgett\, Christine Schmidt and Dan Stone. \nThis book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference held in 2018 on the post-Holocaust period\, including ‘displaced persons’\, reception and resettlement\, exiles and refugees\, trials and justice\, reparation and restitution\, and memory and testimony. The chapters highlight new\, transnational approaches and findings based on underused and newly opened archives\, including compensation files of the British government; on historical actors often on the periphery within English-language historiography\, including Romanian and Hungarian survivors; and new approaches such as the spatial history of Drancy\, as well as geographies that have undergone less scrutiny\, for example\, Tehran\, Chile\, Mexico and Cyprus. This volume represents the vibrant and varied state of research on the aftermath of the Holocaust. \nLike the conference in 2018\, it is dedicated to the memory of Professor David Cesarani OBE. \nSpeakers:\nNew Home and Transitional Spaces for Holocaust Survivors in Chile and Mexico\nYael Siman\, Associate Professor\, Department of Social and Political Sciences\, Iberoamericana University\, Mexico and Nancy Nicholls Lopeandía\, Lecturer\, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. \nA Spatial History of Drancy: Architecture\, Appropriation and Memory\nStephanie Hesz-Wood\, Doctoral student\, Royal Holloway\, University of London. \nJews and Their Informal Space in Klaipėda\, 1945–1960\nProf Dr Ruth Leiserowitz\, Deputy Director\, German Historical Institute\, Warsaw. \n  \nAbout the event chairs/co-editors\nChristine Schmidt\nChristine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London\, UK. She has published essays in Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Debórah Dwork (Palgrave\, 2020) and Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present (2020). \nSuzanne Bardgett\nSuzanne Bardgett is Head of Research and Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museums\, UK\, and has been a member of the organizing committee for the Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference since its inception in 2003. She is the author of Wartime London in Paintings (2020). \nDan Stone\nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, UK. He has published sixteen books including Histories of the Holocaust (2010)\, The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (2015) and Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction (2019). \nWatch back now:
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Boy from Boskovice: A Father’s Secret Life
DESCRIPTION:Author Vicky Unwin in conversation with Sarah Helm\nVicky Unwin had always known her father – an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat – was Czech\, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish. \n \nSo began a quest to discover the truth about his past – one that perhaps would help answer the niggling doubts she had always had about her ‘perfect’ dad. Finally persuading him to allow her to open a closely-guarded cache of family books and papers\, Vicky discovered the identity of her grandfather: the tormented author and diplomat Hermann Ungar\, hugely controversial both in life and in death\, who was a protégé and posible lover of Thomas Mann\, and a friend of Berthold Brecht and Stefan Zweig. How much of her father’s child was Vicky – and how much of his father’s child was he? \nAs Vicky worked to uncover deeply-buried family secrets\, she would find herself slowly unpicking the lingering power of ‘survivor guilt’ on the generations that followed the Holocaust\, and would learn\, via a deathbed confession\, of the existence of a previously unknown sister. \nTogether\, the sisters attempt to come to terms with what had made their father into the deeply flawed\, complex\, yet charismatic man he had always been\, journeying together through grief and heartache towards forgiveness. \nYou can order the book here. \nAbout the speakers:\nVicky Unwin has had a long career in both book and newspaper publishing\, centred round her African roots\, and is currently the chair of Wasafiri Magazine and a Caine Prize Council member. Her first book\, Love and War in the WRNS\, a collection of her mother’s letters home during the Second World War\, was published by History Press in June 2015. She has always been fascinated by family secrets and began researching the story behind The Boy from Boskovice shortly before her father’s death in 2012. Vicky writes extensively about living with cancer at healthylivingwithcancer.co\, and is a Trustee of Transform Drug Policy Foundation campaigning for the decriminalisation of drugs after losing her daughter to a ketamine overdose in 2011. \nSarah Helm is a former Middle East correspondent and diplomatic editor of the Independent. She is the author of If This is a Woman\, Inside Ravensbrück\, Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women. Her first book\, A Life in Secrets\, detailing the life of the secret agent Vera Atkins\, was published in 2005.  Her play Loyalty about the relationship between George Bush and Tony Blair was performed and published in July 2019. \nWatch back now:
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