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SUMMARY:Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Virtual Symposium: New initiatives and debates around Holocaust memorialisation
DESCRIPTION:United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) welfare worker\, Miss Eileen Wermig\, leads a group of young children at the UNRRA Weisbaden Camp\, where some 5\,000 children were housed\, pictured after the Second World War. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn organisation with Imperial War Museum Institute\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism\, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London and the University of Wolverhampton. \nTo mark the postponed seventh international multidisciplinary conference\, Beyond Camps and Forced Labour\, the conference organisers are pleased to announce a virtual symposium that will explore new international debates in Holocaust memorialisation. In the spirit of the conference\, we hope that the debate and discussion generated by the panel presentations will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines engaged in research on themes of the ‘life after’ and memory\, as well as the interested public. We are looking forward to hosting the next Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference in January 2023. \nVirtual Event Programme: (All times GMT) \n6.00pm            Welcome and introduction by Suzanne Bardgett\, Head of Research and Academic Partnerships\, Imperial War Museum Institute \n6.05pm            New museum initiatives in the UK and the Netherlands \nChair: Dr Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director\, Wiener Library \nJames Bulgin\, Content Lead on the new Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums London \nEmile Schrijver\, Director\, Jewish Historical Museum\, Amsterdam \nDiscussion/ Questions \n6.45pm            Recent debates on Holocaust memorialisation in Germany and Poland \nChair: Professor David Feldman\, Director\, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism \nProfessor Jennifer Evans\, Professor of History at Carleton University\, to reflect on developments and debates in Germany \nProfessor Dariusz Stola\, Professor of History\, Institute of Political Studies\, Polish Academy of Sciences\, and former Director of POLIN\, museum of the history of Polish Jews\, Warsaw\, to reflect on developments and debates in Poland \nDiscussion/Questions \n7.25                 Concluding words from Professor Dieter Steinert\, Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies\, University of Wolverhampton \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/beyond-camps-and-forced-labour-virtual-symposium-new-initiatives-and-debates-around-holocaust-memorialisation/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Symposiums
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220113T183000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Talk: Between fanaticism and mediocrity: Swedish and Dutch fascism\, 1923-1940
DESCRIPTION:NSB leader Anton Mussert together with party members at an annual congress in The Hague\, 1935. The image is out of copyright\, originally produced by the NSB Photo Service\, which was criminalised and dissolved in 1945. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s This Fascist Life exhibition series. \nThe Netherlands and Sweden were better known in the interwar period for the stability of their democracies and their relative liberalism than fascism. Yet there too fascist parties emerged: tens of thousands of people joined the Dutch National Socialist Movement and the Swedish National Socialist Workers Party among many others and fought for a new fascist state. They did so fortunately without ultimate success – marginalised into oblivion\, these groups can appear as only mediocre imitations of more successful models. This begs the question of why so many thousands of people not only joined\, but persisted in a fanatical devotion to their cause\, sometimes for decades far beyond any hope for victory. This lecture will explore the rise and decline of fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands\, explain their appeal to ordinary fascists in spite of unfavourable conditions and the mediocrity of the objects of their devotion. \nDr Nathaniël Kunkeler is a historian of fascism and the far-right in interwar Europe\, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Right-Wing Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. They did their PhD at Cambridge University on the subject of Swedish and Dutch fascism\, which has now been published as a monograph with Bloomsbury Academic: Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability\, 1931-40. They are currently working on a research project about military volunteers and the transnational counter-revolutionary Right in north-western Europe 1917-40. \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-exhibition-talk-between-fanaticism-and-mediocrity-swedish-and-dutch-fascism-1923-1940/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:This Fascist Life
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: A ‘New Europe’ without Jews. Antisemitism and Fascism in Latvia 1932-1945
DESCRIPTION:Poster of the fascist organisation “Pērkonkrusts” (Thunder Cross)\, 1932/1933. Courtesy of Nacionālā enciklopēdija\, LNB. \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. This event is virtual\, but it is possible that a limited number of in-person seats will become available closer to the event. \nThe Republic of Latvia was inaugurated in 1918 as a liberal democracy\, granting general suffrage and equal rights to all citizens\, and cultural autonomy to minorities. Despite these achievements\, anti-democratic and racist movements emerged in the 1920s and 1930s. In this talk\, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context. She will reveal expressions of anti-Jewish activities and discuss how the fascist organisations in Latvia fostered the fragmentation of civil society in the interwar period. Understanding of the nature of their antisemitism enables us to analyse the behaviour of the Latvian fascists during the Second World War when their reaction to the German occupation ranged from acts that can be termed collaboration to those that resemble resistance. \nAbout the speaker: \nPaula Oppermann is a PhD candidate in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the Latvian Fascist Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) Organisation\, how it developed its ultra-nationalist\, antisemitic ideology in the 1930s\, and how this influenced its members’ actions during the Second World War. Paula previously studied History and Baltic Languages at the University of Greifswald and completed an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University. Her research interests are the Holocaust and its commemoration in Latvia\, and she has published articles on the history of the Rumbula and Salaspils Memorials. She has worked as a research assistant at Berlin’s Topography of Terror Documentation Centre curating a special exhibition entitled Mass Shootings. The Holocaust Between the Baltic and the Black Sea 1941–1944\, and as a sub-editor for the online project Pogrom: November 1938. Testimonies from Kristallnacht\, developed by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London. \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-a-new-europe-without-jews-antisemitism-and-fascism-in-latvia-1932-1945/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland\, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Search for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to partner with UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the Institute for Polish Jewish Studies to launch Michael Fleming’s new book\, In the Shadow of the Holocaust. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nIn the midst of the Second World War\, the Allies acknowledged Germany’s ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland’s engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission\, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile (based in London from 1940) agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities. The book shows that jurists associated with the Government in Exile made significant contributions to legal debates on war crimes and\, along with others\, paid attention to German crimes against Jews. By exploring the relationship between the UNWCC and the Polish War Crimes Office under the authority of the Polish Government in Exile and later\, from the summer of 1945\, the Polish Government in Warsaw\, the book provides a new lens through which to examine the early stages of the Cold War. \nAbout the speakers: \nMichael Fleming is a historian at The Polish University Abroad\, London and conference secretary to the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. His publications include Communism\, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland\, 1944-1950 (2010)\, Auschwitz\, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and (as editor) Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies and the Aquila Polonica Prize. \nDan Plesch is Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy in the Politics Department of SOAS University of London and is a ‘door tenant’ at the legal chambers of 9 Bedford Row\, in London. He is the author of Human Rights After Hitler. His previous books include America Hitler and the UN\, Wartime Origins and the Future UN (with Professor Weiss) and The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace. He leads research on the UN\, War Crimes and on Disarmament. \nJulia Eichenberg is a senior lecturer at the University of Bayreuth\, and a Freigeist Fellow and principal investigator of the research project “The London Moment” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2014-2023). In 2008\, she was awarded a PhD in Modern History by the University of Tübingen for her research on Polish First World War veterans. Since then\, she has held fellowships and lectured in Modern European History at Trinity College Dublin\, University College Dublin and Humboldt University Berlin. She has published on aspects of war\, welfare\, violence\, peace\, and international collaboration. Her next book engages with the collaboration of European governments-in-exile in London during the Second World War. \nChaired by: \nAntony Polonsky is Chief Historian of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw and Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Until 1991 he was Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972)\, The Little Dictators (1975)\, The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976); co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004). His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia\, volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3 1914 to 2008 (2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History. \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-launch-in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-poland-the-united-nations-war-crimes-commission-and-the-search-for-justice/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220119
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SUMMARY:Virtual Conference: Echoes of Fascism: The Radical Right in the Twenty-First Century
DESCRIPTION:Students at the University of Vienna saluting in a torchlight parade together with the Rector\, Hans Übersberger\, in 1931. ÖNB Bildarchiv. H 780 B \nA one-day conference organised by The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The European Fascist Movements 1918-1941 project\, the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right and HOPE not hate. \nThis academic conference is part of the Library’s This Fascist Life: Radical Movements in Interwar Europe exhibition and will explore the Radical Right in the twenty-first century. View the full conference schedule here. \nAlthough fascism was defeated militarily at the end of the Second World War\, neo-fascist and radical right movements have continued to spread racial hatred and to challenge liberal democracies ever since. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen right-wing political parties\, white supremacist scenes\, extremist organisations\, and governments promoting ultranationalist chauvinism in various forms. By interrogating the frames\, repertoires\, mobilisation strategies\, and activities of the radical right\, this conference seeks to understand how the radical right functions in today’s world so that we might be better equipped to combat it in the future. \nVirtual Conference Schedule: \nPlease note that this programme does not include all aspects of the conference. Some elements involve conference participants only and will not be live-streamed. \nYou will receive individual zoom links to join the conference on Tuesday 18 November via email\, please check junk folders. \n11.30am: Panel discussion: Fighting Fascism Today  \nChair: Matthew Feldman (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \nSpeakers: Joe Mulhall (HOPE not hate); Dave Rich (Community Security Trust); Bethan Johnson (Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right) \n1.30-2.45pm: Keynote lecture (online): Ruth Wodak\, Lancaster University/ the University of Vienna\, Collective amnesia: Normalizing a rhetoric of exclusion \nChair: Barbara Warnock\, The Wiener Holocaust Library \n5.30-7pm: Keynote public lecture: Julie Gottlieb\, University of Sheffield\, Memory Boom and Bust: Radical Right Women and the Politics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Britain  \nChair: Roland Clark\, University of Liverpool
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-conference-echoes-of-fascism-the-radical-right-in-the-twenty-first-century/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Conferences,This Fascist Life
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: The Holocaust in Public
DESCRIPTION:In his final book\, The Fate of the Jews\, 1933–49\, the British historian David Cesarani lamented the ‘yawning gulf’ between popular understanding of the Holocaust and academic scholarship. This public event provides an opportunity to evaluate the continued relevance of Cesarani’s critique\, as new initiatives are launched (the Imperial War Museum’s new Holocaust Galleries opened to the public in October 2021) and others undergo continued refinement (development of UK secondary school teaching on the Holocaust by UCL’s Institute of Education; plans for a UK Holocaust Memorial alongside Parliament). \nWhat is the value of academic involvement in processes of public education and commemoration? To what extent is such involvement a reality\, particularly in the UK? What are the prospects for further growth in collaborative initiatives\, and what are the obstacles? And how far does our expanded digital world impact this relationship? \nThe event will be moderated by Professor Shirli Gilbert (UCL\, Academic Director of the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre) and Dr Andy Pearce (Institute of Education\, UCL). Offered in collaboration with the British Association for Holocaust Studies. \nTo find out more about this event and to register please click here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-event-the-holocaust-in-public/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220126T193000
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SUMMARY:Holocaust Memorial Day 2022: Remembering the Day of Deportation
DESCRIPTION:Jewish deportees from the ‘Polenaktion’ in a makeshift camp in Polish-German border town Zbąszyń (Bentschen)\, November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nJoin The Wiener Holocaust Library to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 with the Mayor of Camden Sabrina Francis and Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller. \nThis year’s event will focus on the experiences of victims of Nazi genocide on the day that they were deported to ghettos and camps and will include readings from the Library’s collection of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust on this theme. The event will also feature a talk by Dr Christoph Kreutzmüller exploring the significance of the contemporary photographs taken of deportations of Jews during the Holocaust. \nWith remarks by Dr Toby Simpson\, Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library and readings by a Camden Youth MP. \nWe ask that audience members take a lateral flow test in the 24 hours before attending. \nIf you would like to join us virtually please register for a live stream ticket here. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Christoph Kreuzmüller is a Berlin-based curator\, educator and historian. In the new research project last seen\, he is currently designing an educational tool for a close reading of deportation photos. His acclaimed study Final Sale in Berlin. The destruction of Jewish commercial activity 1930-1945 was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books and presented at The Wiener Library. His latest study Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz (together with Tal Bruttmann und Stefan Hördler) has been published by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft in 2019. \nSabrina Francis is a Labour councillor for Bloomsbury\, currently serving her second term. She has lived in Camden for her whole life and attended Brecknock Primary School and Camden School for Girls. First elected in 2014\, Sabrina is Camden Labour’s first black woman councillor. In 2020 she launched and chaired a Youth Engagement Group\, giving young people from Camden the opportunity to co-design policy that tackles racial inequality in the criminal justice and education systems. Alongside being a councillor\, Mayor Francis currently works in digital engagement and has previously held digital roles at an agency and on a political campaign. In 2017 she was recognised on the New Year’s Honours List for services to the University of London. \n  \nWe regret to inform visitors that our exterior lift is currently out of service. This is due to ongoing repair works and we apologise for the inconvenience. If you have any comments\, questions\, or concerns regarding accessibility at the Library\, please email us at info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org or call us on +44 (0) 20 7636 7247.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holocaust-memorial-day-2022-the-day-of-deportation/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Genocide,Holocaust Memorial Day
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