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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: On the Trail of the Death Marches
DESCRIPTION:Attempted identification of unknown dead – Karl Franz. ITS Digital Archive\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nAs part of the Death Marches: Evidence and Memory exhibition events series\, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the sources and new research methods that have uncovered different aspects of the history of the death marches and the end of the Second World War. What sources do scholars use to recover and narrate this difficult past? Which forms do those narrations take? \nSpeakers will discuss new digital humanities and mapping methodologies\, the use of oral histories and testimonies\, and other sources key to uncovering new insight into the end of the Holocaust. \nWe welcome anyone interested in learning more about the latest scholarship in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies to attend. \nAbout the Panel \nDr Henning Borggräfe\, born 1981\, is a historian and\, since 2017\, Head of Research and Education at the Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution. He earned his PhD in History in 2012 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Before he came to Arolsen in 2014\, he worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen. He has published on Nationalism\, Nazi Germany\, the History of Sociology\, and Germany’s dealing with the Nazi past\, including the books Zwangsarbeiterentschädigung. Vom Streit um “vergessene Opfer” zur Selbstaussöhnung der Deutschen (2014\, author)\, A Paper Monument: The History of the Arolsen Archives (2019\, co-editor) and Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present (2020\, co-editor). \nDr Simone Gigliotti teaches Holocaust Studies in the Department of History at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, where she is also Deputy Director of the Holocaust Research Institute and affiliated with the Centre for the Geo-Humanities\, and the Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric. Her publications include The Train Journey: Transit\, Captivity and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2009) and the co-edited collection\, The Wiley Companion to the Holocaust (2020). Simone has active interests in spatial histories and narratives of displacement\, deportation\, and maritime movement during and after the Holocaust. Her collaborative work with Marc Masurovsky and Erik Steiner on death marches focused on the evacuations of women inmates from the Rajsko subcamp at Auschwitz during January 1945 and was published as “From the Camp to the Road: Representing the Evacuations from Auschwitz\, January 1945” in the edited collection Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). She further explored constructions of embodied time and sensory witnessing during death marches and deportations in the chapter “A Mobile Holocaust? Rethinking Testimony with Cultural Geography” which was published in the edited collection Hitler’s Geographies (2016). \nMs Yona Kobo is a researcher and Online Exhibitions Co-ordinator in the Digital Department\, Communications Division at Yad Vashem. She has curated digital exhibitions such as ‘My Lost Childhood’\, ‘The Onset of Mass Murder: The Fate of Jewish Families in 1941’ and ‘The Death March to Volary’. She has also written numerous blogs for Yad Vashem and The Times of Israel. \nDr Alexander von Lunen is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He has a degree in computer science and a doctorate in history\, both from the Technical University Darmstadt\, Germany. Dr von Lunen worked in the software industry in Germany for many years\, before joining the University of Portsmouth in 2007\, where he became a Research Fellow in the Geography Department\, acting as technical lead for the Vision of Britain website. In 2012 he was hired as Research Fellow for a digital humanities project with the Photographic History Research Centre at De Monfort University\, Leicester. In 2014 he then worked as Research Associate on a project in Social Media analysis for the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University. Dr von Lunen is also on the academic advisory board for the University’s Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-on-the-trail-of-the-death-marches/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T190000
DTSTAMP:20241023T092740
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: The Politics of Dead Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Exhumation registers of the Wetterfeld concentration camp cemetery\, Northern Bavaria. Arolsen Archives. \nAs part of the Death Marches: Evidence and Memory exhibition events series\, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the forensic turn in Holocaust and genocide studies. The panel will address how forensic evidence\, such as sites of mass burial and human remains\, has informed research and remembrance of genocide\, as well as political and ethical dealings with sites of mass atrocity. Speakers will discuss forensic archaeology and exhumations of mass graves related to the Spanish Civil War\, the Holocaust\, and the Second World War\, and the afterlives of related sites. \nWe welcome anyone interested in learning more about the latest scholarship in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies to attend. \nAbout the Panel \nProfessor Jean-Marc Dreyfus is a Professor at the University of Manchester and associate researcher at the Centre of History\, Sciences-Po Paris. He is a specialist of the economic and diplomatic aspects of the Holocaust and post-war reparations. His research considers other genocides\, Jewish history in Europe and exhumations of corpses after mass violence. He also works on looted art in the Holocaust and the unfinished restitution process. Jean-Marc Dreyfus’ current research is three-fold. It considers the question of looted art in this Holocaust and its legacy; he is interested in the personal narrative and the microhistorical approaches of Holocaust victims; he considers the question of the ‘forensic turn’ in Holocaust studies\, the ‘forensic turn’ being the studies of human remains’ treatment during and after the genocide\, including their uses for commemorative purposes. He is currently writing a monograph on the French mission in search of deportees’ corpses in Germany from 1946 to 1960. \nDr Zuzanna Dziuban is a Cultural Studies scholar at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History\, the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is currently working on the ERC Consolidator project “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals”. Dr Dziuban obtained her PhD from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland\, in 2009. Since then\, she has undertaken postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Konstanz\, the Humboldt University/House of the Wannsee Conference and the University of Amsterdam\, amongst others. \nDr Layla Renshaw is Associate Professor of Forensic Science at Kingston University\, London. Her research interests include the role of archaeology and material culture in post-conflict investigations\, the relationship between human remains and traumatic memory\, and public perceptions of forensics. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Spain on the exhumation of Civil War graves. She is the author of Exhuming Loss: Memory\, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War. Her current research concerns the identification of World War I soldiers on the Western Front\, examining the link between genetic testing and memory. In 2019\, she was principal investigator on the ISRF-funded group project Citizen Forensics: Materializing the Dead from Grave to Gene. \nProfessor Roma Sendyka is Director of the Research Center for Memory Cultures and teaches at the Anthropology of Literature and Cultural Studies Department within the Faculty of Polish Studies\, Jagiellonian University\, Kraków. Her research specialises in criticism and theory\, visual culture studies and memory studies. Professor Sendyka is also currently working on a project on non-sites of memory in Central and Eastern Europe. She is head of the research project Awkward Objects of Genocide: Vernacular Art on the Holocaust and Ethnographic Museums\, developed within the project Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production (TRACES\, Horizon2020\, Reflective Society\, 2016-2019\, led by Professor Klaus Schönberger) and of the team project Uncommemorated Genocide Sites and Their Impact on Collective Memory\, Cultural Identity\, Ethical Attitudes and Intercultural Relations in Contemporary Poland (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education\, the National Programme for the Development of Humanities\, 2016-2019).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-the-politics-of-dead-bodies/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and A Cup of Tea: Benno Gantner’s Clandestine Death March Images
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nClandestine death march image taken by Benno Gantner in 1945. USHMM. \nThis talk examines the clandestine nature and cartographical significance of a series of death march images taken by Benno Gantner from the window of his home in Percha\, just outside Munich\, as prisoners were marching southeast from Dachau after its liquidation in 1945. Via a reading of clandestine wartime photography as a critical cartographical practice that binds victims to their environments\, this talk brings Gantner’s images into dialogue with emerging scholarship on the spatial organisation of the Holocaust. In so doing\, it examines the unique tension between clandestine photographs as forensic tools with which we can verify the journeys taken by the prisoners they depict on the one hand and emotionally affective visual devices that immortalise the public suffering and humiliation of these subjects on the other. \nAbout the speaker: \nEmily-Rose Baker is a recently submitted PhD student in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. Her thesis is titled ‘Postcommunist Constellations: Decolonial Cultures of Holocaust Memory in Central-Eastern Europe’\, and examines localised literary and artistic interventions into state-sponsored narratives of Holocaust revisionism and appropriation after 1989. \nEvent guidelines: \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-benno-gantners-clandestine-death-march-image/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Denial and Distortion of the Holocaust and the Genocide Against the Tutsi: what is happening and how can we prevent it?
DESCRIPTION:Photographs of victims of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, and the Hall of Names\, Yad Vashem. \nIn this event\, hosted in association with the Ishami Foundation to mark the anniversary of the ‘100 days’ of the Genocide Against the Tutsi\, our panel of speakers will consider issues around denial and distortion of the Holocaust and of the genocide against Tutsi. Our speakers will each give their perspectives on the nature of these kinds of falsification and misrepresentation of history\, current manifestations of these attitudes and beliefs\, and the mechanisms by which such beliefs are spread and propagated. There will follow a discussion between panel members exploring the commonalities and differences between these two instances of genocide denial and distortion. \nAbout the speakers: \nLonzen Rugira holds a Phd from Howard University\, Washington DC. He studied public policy from the African Studies Research Program for both his masters and doctorate degrees. His undergraduate degrees were in political science and public finance. At Howard University\, Lonzen taught the political economy of African states and was a research assistant at the Moorland Spingarn Research Centre. He was a Roitchi Sasakawa Fellow. At the University of Rwanda\, he taught in the duo masters programme at the Centre for Conflict Management. He taught genocide studies and prevention and genocide early warning signs. \nLinda Melvern is a British investigative journalist\, a former member of the Sunday Times Insight Team. She has written seven books of non-fiction. For the past 27 years\, she has researched and written exclusively about the circumstances of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Her three books on the subject are: A People Betrayed. The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide\, (Zed 2000 Revised paperback 2009) Conspiracy to Murder. The Rwandan Genocide (Verso 2004. Revised paperback 2006) Intent to Deceive. Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi (Verso 2021) \nPhilip Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kingston University\, where he taught for many years. He is a Visiting Professor in Politics at Birkbeck College\, where he is also a Research Associate of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author of a number of works\, including Genocide since 1945; Nationalism – A Critical Introduction and Nations and Nationalism (both with Howard Wollman); and most recently of Antisemitism and the Left – on the Return of the Jewish Question (with Robert Fine). He is currently writing a longer history of genocide. \nJoe Mulhall is Head of Researcher at HOPE not hate\, a group founded in 2004 to use research\, education\, advocacy and public engagement to challenge racism and fascism. Mulhall was formally a visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway\, University of London where he also completed his PhD on the post-war far right. His books include Drums in the Distance: Journeys in the Global Far Right (Icon Books 2021)\, British Fascism After the Holocaust (Routledge 2020) and co-author of The International Alternative Right (Routledge 2020). He appears regularly in print and broadcast media. \nEvent guidelines: \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-denial-and-distortion-of-the-holocaust-the-genocide-against-the-tutsi-what-is-happening-and-how-can-we-prevent-it/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Genocide
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210623T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210623T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: To Meet In Hell
DESCRIPTION:To Meet in Hell follows Glyn Hughes\, a high-ranking British officer\, and Rachel Genuth\, a teenager from the Hungarian provinces\, as they navigate their respective forms of hell during the final\, brutal year of the Second World War. \nTheir stories converge before the war’s end\, in Bergen-Belsen\, where Hughes finds himself responsible for an unprecedented situation: 25\,000 of 60\,000 war-ravaged inmates are in need of immediate hospitalization. Rachel is among those at death’s door. Their narratives tell a larger story—about the suffering of the victims\, the struggles of liberators who strove to save lives\, and about the human capacity for fortitude and redemption. \nYou can purchase a copy of the book here. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Bernice Lerner is the former dean of adult learning at Hebrew College and a senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility. \nEvent guidelines: \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-to-meet-in-hell/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210628T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210628T163000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: "Jewish refugee 'rescue' at the interstices of Philippine independence\, 1938-1941"
DESCRIPTION:Part of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nAn eyewitness account by Sergeant Gerard Kohn\, American Liberation Forces\, of the situation of Jewish refugees in Manila. Testifying to the Truth\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis presentation gives an overview of the admission of Jewish refugees to the Philippines from 1938 to 1941. It discusses the political responses and introduces the key figures involved in two related Jewish immigration programmes to the archipelago. The first provided visas to pre-selected Jewish refugees based on ‘needed’ professions in the country. The second was the so-called ‘Mindanao Plan’\, which proposed to admit 10\,000 refugees to the southern island of Mindanao as agricultural settlers. These responses took place at the interstices of the Philippines’ independence from the United States. The presentation shows that refugees were part of the process of state-formation\, entangled in the creation of new immigration laws and development interests. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Ria Sunga has recently finished her PhD in History at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the political responses to refugees in the Philippines in the twentieth century. She focuses on the episodes of Jewish\, Russian\, and Vietnamese refugee admission. \nEvent guidelines: \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).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-jewish-refugee-rescue-at-the-interstices-of-philippine-independence-1938-1941/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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