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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Talk: The Day of 'Liberation'
DESCRIPTION:Former women inmates of Bergen-Belsen after liberation\, April 1945. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.  \nAs the German Army started to lose the war\, they were pushed into retreat towards Germany by the Allies. The Allies then began to liberate the hundreds of camps that the Nazis had constructed across occupied Europe. \nFor many prisoners\, liberation was only the beginning of their journey to freedom. \nThis talk\, aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to examine the topic of ‘liberation’. It will contextualise the final events of the Holocaust\, explore the concept of ‘liberation’\, consider life after ‘liberation’ in DP camps and frame why it is so important that we remember the Holocaust today. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this talk is suitable for those studying the following: \n\nYear 9 – as required by the National Curriculum\nGCSE: OCR Explaining the Modern World\, Germany 1925-1955\nA-Level: Edexcel Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89\,\nA-Level: OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963\nA-Level: AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945\nOther non-history courses (Religion and Philosophy\, Politics\, English Literature)\n\nEvent guidelines \n1. The Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email before the event. Please do check your junk 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-student-talk-the-day-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220204T130000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091308
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Third Reich’s Elite Schools with Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host a lunchtime book talk with Helen Roche. This event will take place online\, but it is possible that limited in-person places will be available closer to the event. \nDrawing on material from eighty archives in six different countries worldwide\, as well as eyewitness testimonies from over 100 former pupils\, Helen Roche presents the first comprehensive history of the Third Reich’s most prominent elite schools\, the National Political Education Institutes (Napolas / NPEA). The Napolas provided an all-encompassing National Socialist ‘total education’\, featuring ideological indoctrination\, premilitary training\, and a packed programme of extracurricular activities\, including school trips and exchanges throughout Europe and beyond. \nCombining all the most seductive elements of reform-pedagogy\, youth-movement traditions\, and the militaristic ethos of the Prussian cadet schools\, the schools took pupils from the age of ten\, aiming to train them for leadership roles in all walks of life. Those who successfully passed the gruelling entrance examination\, which tested applicants’ physical prowess\, courage\, and alleged ‘racial purity’ along with their academic abilities\, had to learn to live in a highly militarized and enclosed boarding school community. \nThrough an in-depth depiction of everyday life at the Napolas\, as well as systematic analysis of the ways in which different schools within the NPEA system were shaped by their previous traditions\, this study sheds light on the qualities which the Nazi regime desired to instil in its future citizens\, whilst also contributing to key debates on the political\, social\, and cultural history of the Third Reich\, demonstrating that the history of education and youth can illuminate the broader history of this era in novel ways. Ultimately\, the NPEA can be seen as the Nazi dictatorship’s most effective educational experiment. \nAbout the speaker: \nDr Helen Roche is Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham. Her second book\, The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas\, has recently been published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been featured in the press nationally and internationally\, including appearances in The Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Telegraph\, on the BBC and Sky News. Her first book\, Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet Corps\, 1818-1920\, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas)\, 1933-1945\, was published in 2013. \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-the-third-reichs-elite-schools-with-helen-roche/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220208T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091308
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SUMMARY:Virtual Ernst Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Natalia Aleksiun
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Dr Joanna Sliwa in conversation with Professor Natalia Aleksiun in honour of Dr Sliwa’s joint award of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Dr Sliwa’s award-winning manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published in 2021 by Rutgers University Press\, is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the Second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here\, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told\, analyzed\, and treated seriously. \nSliwa scours archives to tell their story\, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities\, Polish neighbors\, Jewish community and family\, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place\, a people\, and daily life\, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. \nOffering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises. \nAbout the speakers: \nDr Joanna Sliwa is a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history. She works as Historian at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claims Conference)\, the only NGO that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Jewish Holocaust survivors. She has worked at the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York\, and has taught at Kean University and at Rutgers University. She was jointly awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize in 2020 for her book manuscript\, Jewish Childhood in Kraków\, published by Rutgers University Press in 2021. \nDr Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida\, Gainesville. She holds doctoral degrees from Warsaw University\, Poland\, and NYU\, U.S. She specializes in the social\, political\, and cultural history of modern East European and Polish Jewry and the Holocaust. Aleksiun has written extensively on the history of Polish Jews\, the Holocaust\, Jewish intelligentsia in East-Central Europe\, Polish-Jewish relations\, and modern Jewish historiography. In addition to her 2021 book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)\, she is the author of Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (‘Where To? The Zionist Movement in Poland\, 1944–1950’) (Warsaw\, 2002) and co-editor of several volumes\, including Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry\, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe (2017) (with Brian Horowitz and Antony Polonsky) and European Holocaust Studies\, vol. 3: Places\, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust (2021) (with Hana Kubátová). She also serves as co-editor of East European Jewish Affairs. Currently\, she is a senior fellow at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw. She is completing a new book about Jews in hiding in eastern Galicia during the Holocaust. \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-ernst-fraenkel-prize-lecture-joanna-sliwa-in-conversation-with-natalia-aleksiun/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220209T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: Living in Two Worlds: The Else Behrend and Siegfried Rosenfeld Diaries
DESCRIPTION:Living in Two Worlds\, published on 17 December 2021\, is a unique collection of personal diaries and letters describing the lives of a remarkable couple\, Else and Siegfried Rosenfeld\, during the 1930s\, then throughout the Second World War and beyond.  \nElse’s writings were first published in Switzerland in 1945\, not so long after her daring night-time escape across the border in 1944. This marks the first time that her own diaries and her letters to Eva\, close friend and confidante\, as well as of her exiled husband’s diaries\, penned in isolation in England\, have been published in English. The diaries have been interwoven in such a way as to highlight their reliance on one another throughout the long years of enforced separation and yet also to present their differing views of their country’s actions and the conduct of its people. The writing makes accessible to historians and the general reader alike the facts of persecution and deportation but is not without humour thanks to Else’s wry remarks about certain Gestapo officers with whom she had to engage in the course of her work. \nThe original researchers and editors of the diaries and letters\, Professor Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger\, have worked closely with Deborah Langton\, the translator\, and with Cambridge University Press\, to bring this volume to a wider public. \nDeborah will talk about her experience of working on the book\, picking out key themes\, people and places\, as well as reading extracts from Else’s diaries while Steve Cooper\, Else’s grandson\, will read from Siegfried’s diaries. With contributions from Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \nCUP will kindly offer discounts on the book to those registering for this event. Purchase here. \nLiving in Two Worlds: Diaries of a Jewish Couple in Germany and in Exile published by CUP (2021) and translated by Deborah Langton. \nThe original German version is ‘Leben in zwei Welten’ published by Volk (2011). Edited by Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger. \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-living-in-two-worlds-the-else-behrend-and-siegfried-rosenfeld-diaries/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220210T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091308
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: The occupied Ruhr 1923 and the Munich Agreement 1938: two episodes from the career of the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955)
DESCRIPTION:Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955). \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nT. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955) is a unique but neglected figure in British political and religious history\, a Quaker pacifist who sat in the House of Commons in both world wars. He appears in literature only for his work in the First World War when he helped introduce a system of alternative\, non-military national service for conscientious objectors. Yet he was involved in many of the domestic and international issues of the first half of the twentieth century. The talk will be about two episodes in his career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923\, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938. \nAbout the speaker: \nMark Frankel is a retired civil servant and a PhD candidate with the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies\, University of Birmingham. The provisional title of his PhD is T. Edmund Harvey\, Liberal Quaker\, Quaker Liberal. \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-the-occupied-ruhr-1923-and-the-munich-agreement-1938-two-episodes-from-the-career-of-the-quaker-politician-t-edmund-harvey-1875-1955/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220215T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220215T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091308
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SUMMARY:Hans Albrecht Foundation Annual Lecture and Human Rights Award 2022
DESCRIPTION:Jewish refugees stranded on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border\, 1938 © B. Birnbach\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nThis is an in-person event at The Wiener Holocaust Library. If you would like to register for the live stream please book here.  \nJoin The Hans Albrecht Foundation (HAF) and The Wiener Holocaust Library for the HAF Human Rights Award and annual lecture. This year’s recipient is the Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN). The team at KRAN works with separated young refugees and asylum seekers also known as UASC’s (unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee minors). These are young people aged 16 to 24 who have arrived in Kent alone and are claiming asylum and KRAN provide them with a safe\, positive space supporting them to succeed through a range of services and pathways. \nFor 2022\, the HAF Annual Lecture will be given by award-winning journalist and author Daniel Trilling on the theme of ‘refugees in Europe then and now’. His latest book\, Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe\, won Italy’s inaugural Libri contro la Fame (“Books against Hunger”) literary prize and was shortlisted for the 2019 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Trilling is also currently a regular contributor to The Guardian’s Long Read and Opinion sections and writes for the London Review of Books\, among other publications. \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. \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/hans-albrecht-foundation-annual-lecture-and-human-rights-award-2022/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220217T193000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091308
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Launch: Remembering The Kitchener Camp
DESCRIPTION:Residents of the Kitchener Camp\, 1939. \nJoin us for a talk and reception to mark the launch of the Leave to Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue\, 1939 travelling exhibition at the Library. Leave to Land was authored by Clare Weissenberg and was based on materials collected through The Kitchener Camp Project\, a unique online resource that brings together archival records and family treasures to build a moving and compelling picture of this unlikely sanctuary. \nAntony Lishak\, chief executive of Holocaust Education charity Learning from the Righteous\, will explore the significance of this remarkable act of humanitarianism. Drawing extensively from the Kitchener Camp archives held at the Library\, he will show that\, far from being a mere footnote\, Kitchener Camp’s connections to the likes of Adolf Eichmann\, Benjamin Murmelstein\, Oswald Moseley and Lord Winterton of Evian fame\, intrinsically link it to the wider Holocaust narrative. \nAlmost 4\,000 Jews found sanctuary at the Kitchener Camp\, in a quiet corner of the Kent coast\, during 1939. Conceived of and funded by activists within the Jewish community and beyond\, it was set up as a transit camp for refugees with visas for third-party countries. Sadly\, the scheme was destined to be short-lived. Yet\, for the year or so it was operational\, the foundations of thousands of futures were laid\, and the local population of sleepy Sandwich\, which had doubled in a handful of months\, extended an overwhelmingly warm welcome to their foreign guests. Its enduring legacy can be found in the contribution made by the new citizens of this country\, and their future generations. \nAbout Learning from the Righteous \nBy teaching about the events of the Holocaust through the lens of the bystander\, Learning from the Righteous works with students and teachers to highlight its contemporary relevance. \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/exhibition-launch-talk-remembering-the-kitchener-camp/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Launch Event,The Kitchener Camp
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220222T170000
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Red Friday: The Wehrmacht\, the Order Police\, and the first wartime massacre of Białystok’s Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Market Place of Bialystok during the burning of the Synagogue. Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen Abt. Rheinland\, RWB 18256/176 \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nOn 27 June 1941\, the Wehrmacht 221st Security Division captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok\, encountering very little resistance. By the end of the day\, as many as 2000 Jewish residents of Białystok had been killed\, with the Grand Synagogue\, and at least one-third of the city\, razed to the ground. What happened in Białystok that day\, and why was such an atrocious massacre allowed to happen? This talk will draw upon Wehrmacht records\, survivors’ accounts\, and post-war criminal trial papers to answer these questions. \nAbout the speaker: \nJake Holliday is a PhD Military History Student with the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Buckingham. His thesis concerns a Wehrmacht security division that was deployed on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 and focuses on security warfare\, occupational policies\, and the Holocaust. \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-red-friday-the-wehrmacht-the-order-police-and-the-first-wartime-massacre-of-bialystoks-jews/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220224T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past
DESCRIPTION:This virtual event celebrates the launch of The Journey Home: Emerging out of the Shadow of the Past and will be introduced by the co-editor\, David Clark\, and two of the contributors to the book. This event is in partnership with the Second Generation Network.\n\n\n\n\nThis book is about the long-term implications of socio-political trauma as experienced by descendants of Holocaust survivors and refugees. As they recount their actual journeys of discovery in search of ‘home’\, where their parents\, grandparents lived\, they often tell us about an accompanying emotional journey. \nIt contains twenty accounts by Second-Generation authors of journeys to places connected with family history. These include Germany\, Austria\, Poland\, the Czech Republic\, Slovakia\, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys accompanied by a survivor or refugee parent\, a third without a parent\, and a third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history and impacted their identity and life choices. Another aspect touched upon is the mourning and grieving process these journeys entailed and facilitated. The book dwells on the search for belonging and identity\, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit and all that entails. \nThe epilogue draws on a body of work that suggests that as socio-political trauma is suffered within a social\, cultural and political context\, it requires society’s attention and acknowledgment beyond the individual.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-book-launch-the-journey-home-emerging-out-of-the-shadow-of-the-past/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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