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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: Reckonings and Forced Confrontations after the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:22 April 1945. Civilians from Gardelegen are assembled in the town square by US military authorities to march to the nearby cemetery for victims of the Gardelegen massacre and plant crosses at their graves. Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora\, National Archives and Records Administration. \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 aspects of reckonings with the Holocaust in the immediate post-war period. Panelists will explore the disintegration of the camps system; ‘forced confrontations’ between Allied militaries and the German civilian population; post-war trials of perpetrators involved in the death marches; and the lives of Holocaust survivors in the aftermath of liberation. \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 Margarete Myers Feinstein is clinical assistant professor in Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She received her Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of California\, Davis. Prof. Feinstein was also assistant professor of history at Indiana University South Bend and a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Interested in the legacies of Nazism\, she has published on postwar German national identity and on Jewish Holocaust survivors\, including State Symbols\, 1949–1959 (Brill\, 2002)\, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany\, 1945–1957 (CUP\, 2010)\, and numerous book chapters and articles. Most recently\, she published “Reconsidering Jewish Rage after the Holocaust” in the Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture\, edited by Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (2020). Her current project on retribution after the Holocaust has received support from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nDr Stefan Hördler is Lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History\, University of Göttingen. He specializes in twentieth-century German and transnational history\, Holocaust and genocide studies\, social and economic history. Hördler is the author and co-editor of several books. His most recent publications are\, among others\, “Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz” (Darmstadt: WBG Academic\, 2019) or “Ordnung und Inferno. Das KZ-System im letzten Kriegsjahr” (Göttingen: Wallstein\, 20202). He is member of several academic advisory boards in Europe. For the past decade\, Hördler served as expert consultant in a number of international investigations against former Nazi camp personnel such as in the Auschwitz trials in Lüneburg (2015) and Detmold (2016)\, and the Stutthof trials in Münster (2018) and Hamburg (2020). \nDr Alex J. Kay is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Potsdam and lifetime Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He specialises in the history of Germany from 1914 to 1945\, National Socialist policies of extermination\, and comparative research on genocide and mass violence. He has published five acclaimed books on Nazi Germany\, including The Making of an SS Killer\, which appeared in 2016 with Cambridge University Press\, and Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing\, due out later this year with Yale University Press. \nProfessor Christopher Mauriello is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University in Salem\, Massachusetts. He teaches and researches in the fields of modern European intellectual and cultural history\, World War II\, the Holocaust\, and comparative genocide studies. He is author of Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of World War II (Lexington Books\, 2017) and co-author of From Boston to Berlin: A Journey Through World War II in Images and Words (Purdue University Press\, 2001). His current research focuses on the end of WWII and the complex political\, social and cultural meanings imposed on dead bodies and human remains in the wake of war and mass violence. \nDr Martin Clemens Winter was born in 1981 in Nordhausen\, Germany. He studied History\, Sociology and Communications- and Media Science in Leipzig. His PhD thesis “Gewalt und Erinnerung im ländlichen Raum. Die deutsche Bevölkerung und die Todesmärsche” (“Violence and Remembrance in Rural Areas: The German Population and the Death Marches”) was awarded with the Stanislav Zámecník Research Award of the Comité International de Dachau in 2018. Winter has worked in memorial sites\, in historical-political education and exhibition projects. From 2017 to 2020\, he worked for the Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig with a focus on memorial events and culture of remembrance. In 2020\, Winter held a post-doctoral research grant of the Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt am Main. Since 2021\, he is Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Leipzig University with the project “Corporate Culture\, Forced Labour and Mass Murder at the HASAG armaments company from Leipzig”\, funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-panel-reckonings-and-forced-confrontations-after-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210707T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Lost Cafe Schindler
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication in 2021 of Meriel Schindler’s acclaimed book The Lost Café Schindler\, join the author and Lord Daniel Finkelstein in conversation about the book and Schindler’s project to uncover the history of her father and her family. \nAbout The Lost Café Schindler: \nKurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and Oscar Schindler\, of Schindler’s List fame? Or Hitler’s Jewish doctor – Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht\, the night that Nazis beat Kurt’s father half to death and ransacked the family home? \nWhen Kurt died in 2017\, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him and to solve the mysteries he had left behind. \nStarting with photos and papers found in Kurt’s isolated cottage\, Meriel embarked on a journey of discovery taking her to Austria\, Italy and the USA. She reconnected family members scattered by feuding and war. She pieced together an extraordinary story taking in two centuries\, two world wars and a family business: the famous Café Schindler. Launched in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War\, this grand café became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis arrived. \nThrough the story of the Café Schindler and the threads that spool out from it\, this moving book weaves together memoir\, family history and an untold story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It explores the restorative power of writing and offers readers a profound reflection on memory\, truth\, trauma and the importance of cake. \n‘An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings – a journey across a long\, complex and deeply painful arc of history\, grippingly told – a wonderful melding of the personal and the political\, the family and the historical’ Philippe Sands. \nBuy The Lost Café Schindler via Bookshop.org or Waterstones.com. \nAbout the speakers: \nMeriel Schindler spent the first fifteen years of her life growing up in central London before suddenly being moved to a convent school in provincial Austria. Five years later she moved back to the UK to study French and German at university and she is now an employment lawyer\, partner and head of a team at Withers\, a law firm. Meriel is also a trustee of Arvon\, the writing charity. \nLord Daniel Finkelstein is a journalist and politician. He is the Executive Editor of The Times\, where he is also a weekly political columnist. In politics\, he has worked for John Major\, William Hague and David Cameron. He is the grandson of Dr Alfred Wiener\, Holocaust survivor and founder of The Wiener Holocaust Library.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-the-lost-cafe-schindler/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210714T153000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Souvenirs of suffering: Taking items from the Auschwitz site
DESCRIPTION:Items taken from the Kanada section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau site by two British teenagers in 2015. Polish Regional Police Command. \nContemporary visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum mark their experience of seeing the former concentration and extermination camp in various ways. Many take photographs; others share their impressions on social media; and some purchase books\, fridge magnets or posters from the Museum shops. In recent years\, however\, a small number of visitors have made the headlines for attempting to take other ‘souvenirs’ – namely\, items and artefacts from the grounds of the former camp itself. \nIn 2015\, for example\, two English schoolboys were arrested\, fined and put on trial for attempting to take home small items they had found lying around in the former Kanada complex. Other items pocketed by visitors include bricks\, pieces of barbed wire and fragments from the Birkenau railway track. What might the average visitor hope to gain from taking ‘souvenirs’ from the Auschwitz site\, and what is the proposed final destination of these items? This talk will examine possible motivations for visitors removing artefacts from the former camp\, such as financial gain\, iconography\, the need for an ‘authentic’ experience and the fulfillment of emotional connections. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Imogen Dalziel is the part-time Programme Co-ordinator for the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership; part-time Administrator for the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London; and a freelance Holocaust researcher and educator. She obtained her PhD from Royal Holloway in October 2020 with a thesis that explored the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s adaptation to the digital museum. Her first published journal article\, ‘“Romantic Auschwitz”: Examples and Perceptions of Contemporary Visitor Photography at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’\, won Holocaust Studies’ inaugural Best Essay Prize in 2017. Dr Dalziel also received an ‘If Not for Those Ten…’ award for voluntary services to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in 2016. \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-souvenirs-of-suffering-taking-items-from-the-auschwitz-site/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210719T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210719T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel: Remembering the Death Marches
DESCRIPTION:A poster designed by Sara Jaskiel for a UN exhibition about the March of the Living. Source: March of the Living. \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 different ways of commemorating the death marches\, including pilgrimages\, memorials at former Nazi camps and other sites of significance\, and artistic and photographic responses to such 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 Tim Cole is Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol. His research ranges over histories and geographies of the Holocaust and its representation and memory\, environmental histories\, digital humanities and co-produced and interdisciplinary research practices. His most recent books are About Britain (2021) and Holocaust Landscapes (2016). \nMs Angela Gluck has worked as a teacher trainer\, broadcaster\, curriculum developer and consultant to schools and local authorities—specialising in equality and diversity. Angela teaches children\, young people and adults across the Jewish community and is the author of over 40 books on aspects of religion and history\, including the award-winning Holocaust: The Events and Their Impact on Real People. She has led several study tours in Polish-Jewish history and been involved with March of the Living (MOTL) UK since its inception\, acting as senior educator for groups of adults\, young professionals and students. Her presentations include a one-hour programme Voices of Belsen\, to commemorate the 75th anniversary\, and Stories from the Darkness\, about the righteous. She is a vigorous trustee of The Separated Child Foundation\, which supports lone refugee youth. \nDr Andrew Mycock is a Reader in Politics at the University of Huddersfield and Director of External Engagement. His key research interests also concern post-imperial identity politics in the UK\, including the ‘Politics of Britishness’ and devolution\, English national and regional identity politics\, the British ‘history wars’ and legacies of empire\, the politics of First World War commemoration in the UK\, and the history of British imperial historiography. He also has significant research and teaching interests focusing on youth democratic engagement and participation in the UK\, and has published widely on issues including citizenship education\, youth party politics\, and voting age reform. He is chair of the Kirklees Democracy Commission\, President of the Children’s Identities and Citizenship in Europe Association network\, and an elected Trustee of the Political Studies Association. He is an experienced policy specialist and is co-chair of the Universities Policy Engagement Network Futures Committee. \nMs Susan Silas is a visual artist. She is interested in the way history intersects the personal and in how identity is formed. Her project Helmbrechts walk\, 1998-2003\, in which she retraces on foot a 225-mile death march of all women prisoners at the close of WWII\, attempts to give voice to the experiences and histories of women during the Holocaust; a history is written almost entirely by Western European men. Helmbrechts walk is analyzed in depth in two books on the Holocaust and in a recent book on the landscape. Helmbrechts walk has been exhibited at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna\, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim in Germany\, Hebrew Union College Museum in New York City\, Koffler Gallery in Toronto\, University Art Gallery at Stony Brook\, and Chatham College in Pittsburgh. Her recent work examines the meaning of embodiment\, the index in representation\, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She focuses on the aging body\, gender roles\, the fragility of sentient beings and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through new technologies. \nProfessor Jens-Christian Wagner\, born in 1966\, studied history\, geography and Romance languages and literature in Göttingen and Santiago de Chile (M.A.). His 1999 doctoral thesis about the history of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp at the University of Göttingen was published as Produktion des Todes. Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora in 2001. In 2000\, he was a guest scholar in the research programme Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Nationalsozialismus (Berlin); from 2001-2014\, Director of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial at Nordhausen; from 2014-2020\, Director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation at Celle and Lecturer at the Leibniz University of Hannover; and\, since October 2020\, Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation at Weimar and Professor for History in Media and Public at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Professor Wagner has curated several exhibitions and published numerous books and articles about the history of the concentration camps and forced labour in Nazi Germany and about the politics of memory after 1945.
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LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Death Marches: Evidence and Memory
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: We Share the Same Sky
DESCRIPTION:A joint event with The Ark Synagogue and The Wiener Holocaust Library.  \nTo mark the forthcoming publication of Rachael Cerrotti’s new memoir\, which follows on from her award-winning podcast\, We Share the Same Sky\, join The Wiener Holocaust Library and The Ark Synagogue to hear Rachael in conversation with Stephen D. Smith about the book and the genesis and development of the project. We Share The Same Sky documents Cerrotti’s decade-long journey to weave together the thin threads of her family history\, and\, in particular\, the story of her grandmother’s experiences during the Holocaust. The project is an intergenerational diary of love\, loss and the will to move forward in the face of uncertainty. \nAbout the speakers: \nRachael Cerrotti is an award-winning photographer\, writer\, educator and audio producer as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. For over a decade\, she has been retracing her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story and documenting the echoes of WWII. In the fall of 2019\, she released her critically-acclaimed podcast\, titled We Share The Same Sky\, about this story. The podcast is now being taught in classrooms worldwide. Rachael’s memoir\, also titled ‘We Share The Same Sky’ will be published this summer and is now available for pre-order. Learn more at: www.rachaelcerrotti.com & www.sharethesamesky.com \nDr. Stephen D. Smith is Finci-Viterbi Endowed Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation. He is adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California\, he is a theologian by training. Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in England and co-founded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. Smith was the project director responsible for the creation of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda and trustee of the South Africa Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. \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. \nThis event will be taking place at 7pm BST.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-talk-we-share-the-same-sky/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210728T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: Manfred Goldberg: My Death March Experience
DESCRIPTION:Manfred Goldberg. Minnow Films Ltd./Richard Ansett. \nFor the final event in our Death Marches: Evidence and Memory event series\, we are delighted to be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM. Mr Goldberg will be led in conversation by Professor Dan Stone\, one of the co-curators of the Death Marches exhibition\, and share his experiences of his own death march journey and liberation. There will also be time for an audience Q&A. \nAbout the Speakers \nManfred Goldberg BEM was born on 21 April 1930 in Kassel\, Germany\, into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father escaped to England shortly before the outbreak of war; Manfred\, his mother and younger brother\, Herman\, were deported to the Riga Ghetto in 1941. In August 1943\, just three months before the ghetto was finally liquidated\, Manfred and his mother were sent to a labour camp\, where he was forced to work laying railway tracks. It was during their internment here that Herman disappeared one day\, and was never heard from again. As the Red Army approached Riga\, Manfred and the other surviving prisoners were evacuated to Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (today Gdańsk) in August 1944. He spent more than eight months as a slave worker in Stutthof and its subcamps\, including Stolp and Burggraben. The camp was abandoned just days before the war ended and Manfred and other prisoners were sent on a death march in appalling conditions. Manfred was finally liberated at Neustadt in Germany on 3 May 1945. \nProfessor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway University of London. He is a historian of ideas who works primarily on twentieth-century European history. His research interests include the history and interpretation of the Holocaust\, comparative genocide\, history of anthropology\, history of fascism\, the cultural history of the British Right and theory of history. \nPlease note: This event will take place on Zoom and the relevant details will be sent the day before the event. Please ensure email addresses ending in ‘@wienerholocaustlibrary.org’ are added to your safe senders list.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-talk-manfred-goldberg-my-death-march-experience/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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