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SUMMARY:Virtual Teacher Workshop: Using The Wiener Holocaust Library Resources to Support Teaching About the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alfred Wiener and Ilse Wolff at The Wiener Library in Manchester Square\, 1950s. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Spring Term educational talks and workshops. \nUsing sources from the Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop for teachers will explore the Library’s resources and collections and how they can be used to support classroom practice. \nWe will explore the history of the Library\, the collections we hold\, the resources we have on offer and how these can be utilised so that students can understand and analyse contemporary material. \nThe workshop is aimed at British secondary school teachers and educators and will be led by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer. \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 (17.55) 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-teacher-workshop-using-the-wiener-holocaust-library-resources-to-support-teaching-about-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220302T183000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Talk: The Kitchener Camp Rescue
DESCRIPTION:Residents of the Kitchener Camp standing outside the first aid station\, 1930. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Leave To Land: The Kitchener Camp Rescue 1939 exhibition event series. 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. \nIn this talk\, Professor Clare Ungerson will discuss how it came about that 4\,000 German Jewish refugee men moved from Greater Germany to live in an old army camp on the edge of the small town of Sandwich in East Kent in 1939. It is a remarkable story of speedy and highly effective action by Anglo Jewry who\, in 1938/9\, organised and funded two rescues – the much better known Kindertransports\, and the movement of 4000 adult men\, many from concentration camps\, from Greater Germany to the English coast. She will also discuss how the people of Sandwich\, a town the size of the camp\, reacted to this presence of 4\,000 Jewish refugees living on the edge of their town. \nAbout the speaker: \nClare Ungerson is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She retired in 2005 and moved to Sandwich in East Kent. She is the daughter and granddaughter of German Jewish refugees. On retirement\, she decided to investigate the story of the Kitchener camp. The Wiener Holocaust Library archives were an invaluable source\, as were the papers of Norman Bentwich\, lodged in the Hebrew University\, Jerusalem. Her book\, Four Thousand Lives: the rescue of German Jewish men to Britain\, 1939 was published in hardback by the History Press in 2014 and reprinted in paperback in 2019. In December 2019 it was named by one of the contributors to The Times Literary Supplement as his ‘book of the year’. \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-talk-the-kitchener-camp-rescue/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Kitchener Camp
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091026
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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Holocaust Refugees in British India: Perspectives from Two “Others”
DESCRIPTION:Close-up portrait of Jewish refugee\, Esther Weeg\, wearing a sari while living in India. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives\, Photograph Number: 77107\, copyright of USHMM.  \nPart of The Wiener Holocaust Library’s PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series. \nThe construction and use of the term “refugee” in Holocaust studies\, like refugee studies\, focuses on the role of nation-states operating unilaterally or in an interdependent international refugee regime. This focus\, however\, discounts the world of empires that shaped the administration and experiences of Jewish refugees through the twentieth century. \nThis paper adopts the perspectives of two groups of people “Other-ed” in the racial hierarchy of empire. First\, it uses photographs and writings of Jewish Refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society. It highlights the ways in which Jewish refugees responded to and participated in their changing categorizations prior to and following the start of the Second World War. Second\, it reads government records against the grain to put forward the perspective of Indians encountering these new “Europeans.” In doing so\, I show that scholars ought to account for an expanded conception of Britain which includes in its “domestic” sphere its imperial boundaries when analyzing refugee movements in the Empire. This\, I will demonstrate\, allows us not only to ask new questions on the Holocaust but also\, of the archives that allow us to study them and the perspectives they represent. \nAbout the speaker: \nPragya Kaul is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan’s Department of History and a Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Y. Gitelman Fellow at Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. From 2020-2021\, she was a Leo Baeck International Dissertation Fellow. Her research uses her knowledge of German\, Hindi\, Urdu\, and Yiddish to examine the experiences of Jewish refugees in the British Empire\, and to take an imperial framework towards understanding refugees broadly. She has been awarded grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)\, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes\, and the German Historical Institute. \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 (17.55) 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/8850/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220308T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Island of Extraordinary Captives
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Simon Parkin speak about his new book\, The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist\, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal. Using exclusive new archive material\, letters and diaries\, it reveals the untold story of history’s most extraordinary prison camp\, where Britain interned thousands of refugees during the Second World War. \nApproximately 73\,500 German and Austrian refugees from Nazism fled to Britain when war broke out. Initially\, these refugees were received under such lauded schemes as the Kindertransport. But in the following months\, the British media stoked national paranoia that a network of spies\, posing as refugees\, lurked among their ranks. The British government embarked upon a policy of mass internment of the very same people they had welcomed to our shores\, and of the so-called ‘enemy aliens’ living in Britain\, approximately 30\,000 were sent to camps indefinitely. On 13 July 1940\, Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man was declared open. Home to around 1\,200 prisoners\, by a twist of fate their number included some of the most prominent and celebrated German and Austrian artists\, musicians and academics of the day\, such as the pioneering German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters\, Ludwig Meidner (Artist)\, Paul Hamann (Artist)\, Fred Uhlman (Artist)\, Gerhard Bersu (Oxford archaeologist)\, Heinrich Fraenkel (author\, journalist\, chess-setter for New Statesman)\, Fred Weiss (film director)\, and Leo Wurmser (Conductor for BBC orchestras etc). The Austrian politician Emil Maurer survived not one but two Germany camps – Dachau and Buchenwald – only to be sent to the Isle of Man by his supposed saviours. Other internees\, like the orphan and aspiring artist Peter Fleischmann\, were barely out of school\, but found among the eminent men a community that would forever change their lives. \nLive stream tickets are also available. \nAbout the author: \nSimon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of A Game Of Birds And Wolves\, which told the little-known story of a small group of women in Liverpool who devised a war game which went on to be the thing that won the Battle of the Atlantic and has been bought for film by Steven Spielberg. He lives in West Sussex. \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 7242
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-the-island-of-extraordinary-captives/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Menachem Kaiser: Plunder
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the newest event in our Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust Event Series\, which explores the meaning and legacy of family research into the Holocaust. The Library is delighted to welcome Menachem Kaiser\, author of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure\, who will be in conversation with Christine Schmidt\, Deputy Director and Head of Research\, for this virtual event.  \nFrom a gifted young writer\, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland – and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story\, woven from improbable events and profound revelations\, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery – that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the Second World War but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast\, secret Nazi tunnel complex-leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure-seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research\, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent\, daring interrogation of inheritance – material\, spiritual\, familial\, and emotional. \nAbout the speakers: \nMenachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, the Atlantic\, New York\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nDr Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, where she oversees academic outreach and programming. \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/hybrid-book-talk-menachem-kaiser-plunder/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091026
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student Workshop: Source Analysis for Coursework
DESCRIPTION:This map indicates the number of Jews murdered by the Einsatzgruppen (killing squads that followed the German army) in each country. The map shows modern-day Belarus\, at the bottom\, then continuing clockwise\, Lithuania\, Latvia\, Estonia and Russia. The map was featured as part of the Stahlecker report and was used in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nPart of the Library’s Spring Term educational talks and workshops. \nUsing sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s unique archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust\, this virtual workshop for students and teachers will explore the Library’s resources and collections and how they can be used to support with primary source analysis for coursework. \nThe workshop will show participants how to access archival material\, and use original archival materials from the Library’s collections to investigate key historical questions such as who was responsible for the Holocaust. \nDelivered by Kiera Fitzgerald\, the Library’s Education Officer\, this session is suitable for those studying the following: KS3 History; GCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939; GCSE History OCR: Germany 1925-1955: The People and The State. Edexcel A-Level History – Germany and West Germany\, 1918–89; OCR History Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963; AQA History: Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918-1945. \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 (17.55) 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-workshop-source-analysis-for-coursework/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220329T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220329T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T091026
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SUMMARY:Virtual Panel Discussion: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations: History and Russian Instrumentalisation
DESCRIPTION:A crowd assaults and abuses Jewish women during the Lviv Pogrom\, 30 June and 1 July 1941. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. \nIn light of Vladimir Putin’s spurious goal of “de-Nazifying” Ukraine and to think about how historical knowledge can be applied to current crises\, the Library is pleased to host this panel which will analyse Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The panel brings together experts on the Russian Civil Wars and their aftermath\, the Second World War\, and the Euromaidan and ensuing war. They will discuss not only the history of these events but also the way in which Russia has instrumentalised them to justify its recent invasion of Ukraine. \nAmong other topics\, the panel will examine the role of Ukrainian nationalist groups in antisemitic violence in the periods 1918-1921 and 1941-1945. It will analyse and contextualise the “history wars” that erupted after the fall of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014\, which\, to a large degree\, focused on interpretations of these events. Here\, it will pay particular attention to the Russian use of Ukraine’s early twentieth-century history to delegitimise the contemporary Ukrainian state and the attempt by some Ukrainian historians to counter this through blank denial. It will not ignore\, however\, the development of a new generation of Ukrainian historians endeavouring to assess honestly the violent periods of the country’s past. \nAbout the speakers: \nProfessor Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (Indiana University Press\, 2013)\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History. Her new book\, entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews\, Pogroms\, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets\, was published with Oxford University Press in fall 2019 and won a National Jewish Book Award. \nProfessor John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alberta. He is co-editor (with Joanna B. Michlic) of Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe (University of Nebraska Press 2013)\, as well as author of a number of books and numerous articles on Ukrainian history\, including Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust. \nSam Sokol is a reporter for the Israeli daily Haaretz. He was previously a correspondent at the Jerusalem Post and has reported for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency\, the Israel Broadcasting Authority and the Times of Israel. He is the author of Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews. \nChaired by: \nDr Christopher Gilley did doctoral and post-doctoral research on Sovietophile Ukrainians in the 1920s and warlordism in Ukraine\, 1917-1922. As part of the latter project\, he also wrote about the antisemitic pogroms of the period. He then retrained as an archivist and is now working as a project archivist on The Wiener Holocaust Library’s Digital Transformation Project. \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-panel-discussion-ukrainian-jewish-relations-history-and-russian-instrumentalisation/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,Fighting Antisemitism
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