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SUMMARY:Book Talk: From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens
DESCRIPTION:This event is hosted with Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries and the Royal Holloway Holocaust Research Institute\, as part of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership (HGRP).\nFrom Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth multi-country field research from the Armenian Genocide\, Holocaust and Cambodian Genocide\, this book demonstrates that a pattern of specific escalating human rights abuses takes place in genocide. Offering an analysis of all these particular human rights as they are violated in genocide\, the author intricately brings together genocide studies and human rights\, demonstrating how the ‘crime of crimes’ and the human rights law regime correlate. Dr O’Brien then applies the pattern of rights violations to the Rohingya Genocide\, revealing that this pattern could have been used to prevent the violence against the Rohingya\, before advocating for a greater role for human rights oversight bodies in genocide prevention. \nThe pattern ascertained through the research in this book offers a resource for governments and human rights practitioners as a mid-stream indicator for genocide prevention. It can also be used by lawyers and judges in genocide trials to help determine whether genocide took place. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia\, and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). Her work on forced marriage has been cited by the International Criminal Court\, she has appeared before the ICC as an amicus curia and been an expert consultant for several UN bodies. She recently received a 10-year service medal for volunteering with the Australian Red Cross in the International Humanitarian Law Committee\, and was awarded the Filon Ktenidis Award by the Pontian Society of Sydney for her work on justice and recognition for victims of genocide. \nDr O’Brien has conducted research across six continents and was a 2022 Research Fellow at the Sydney Jewish Museum. She is a 2023 Visiting Fellow at the University of Loughborough and a 2023-34 Visiting Professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, University of Minnesota. Dr O’Brien the author of Criminalising Peacekeepers: Modernising National Approaches to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens. She tweets @DrMelOB. \nChaired by: \nDr Rebecca Jinks a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism. She is the author of Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?\, which examines the ways in which representations of the Holocaust have influenced how other genocides are understood and represented\, focusing on the ‘canonical’ cases of genocide – Armenia\, Cambodia\, Bosnia\, and Rwanda.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-from-discrimination-to-death-genocide-process-through-a-human-rights-lens/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,Genocide,HGRP
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Fate Unknown\, Dan Stone in conversation with Christine Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this hybrid event as part of its new academic book series. Participants can register to attend in person or online.     \nIn his newest book\, Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism\, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II\, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite them with loved ones. \nFrom retracing the steps of the ‘death marches’ with the aim of discovering the burial sites of those murdered across the towns and villages of Central Europe\, to knocking on doors of German foster homes to find the children of forced labourers\, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive and its more than 30 million documents. \nUnder the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross\, the tracing service became one of the most secretive of postwar institutions\, unknown even to historians of the period. Delving deeply into the archival material\, Stone examines the little-known sub-camps and\, after the war\, survivors’ experience of displaced persons’ camps\, bringing to life remarkable stories of tracing. Fate Unknown combs the archives to reveal the real horror of the Holocaust by following survivors’ horrific journeys through the Nazi camp system and its aftermath. \nThe postwar period was an age of shortage of resources\, bitterness\, and revenge. Yet the ITS tells a different story: of international collaboration\, of commitment to justice\, and of helping survivors and their relatives in the context of Cold War suspicion. These stories speak to a remarkable attempt by the ITS\, before the Holocaust was a matter of worldwide interest\, to carry out a programme of ethical repair and to counteract some of the worst effects of the Nazis’ crimes. \n  \nAbout the Speakers \n  \nDan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway\, University of London. He is the author or editor of numerous books\, including The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Pelican\, 2023). \n  \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. \n  \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n  \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\n  \nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-fate-unknown-dan-stone-in-conversation-with-christine-schmidt/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book talk: Depravity’s Rainbow: A Dark History of Space Travel
DESCRIPTION:Depravity’s Rainbow explores the influence of imperialism\, the Holocaust\, and the Cold War on contemporary space exploration. When and where does the history of space exploration begin? For many people\, it might be in 1969\, when American astronauts landed on the moon\, for others it might be in 1953 when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite. But the first manmade object to reach space in fact arrived far earlier\, in 1944\, and it was not a peaceful scientific instrument\, but a ballistic rocket\, a violent weapon of war built by slave labourers in a German concentration camp. \nDepravity’s Rainbow examines the origins of rocketry and space exploration during the Holocaust\, when nascent space technology was mobilised by the Nazi regime as a weapon which they hoped might turn the tide of war. The book focuses on the developers of these rockets\, many of whom were not avid Nazis\, but who made a Faustian pact to pursue rocketry. After the war many of these men went on to work prominently at organisations like NASA\, and so this wartime pact and the post-war choice to utilise the knowledge that it produced continues to haunt the field of space exploration nearly a century later. \nDepravity’s Rainbow employs a mixture of contemporary photographs made during visits to key early rocket development sites across Europe\, many of them today largely forgotten\, alongside historic photographs\, documents\, and other materials from a variety of government and scientific archives. Alongside these texts\, an extended essay examines the history and politics of space technology\, and the way that the militaristic dimensions of this field have often hidden themselves behind a cloak of peaceful civilian science. \nShortlisted for the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2018 and 2020\, The Kassel book award 2019\, and the Aftermath Grant 2018. \nAbout the speaker\nLewis Bush is a researcher and photographer. His photographic projects focus on the activities of powerful and often inscrutable organisations\, and the role their current or past actions play in shaping the world we know. Previous projects have focused on fields ranging from intelligence gathering to multinational property development and offshore finance. \nHis books and prints are held in national and international collections including at The Museum of London (UK)\, The Victoria & Albert Museum Library (UK)\, The Tate Library (UK)\, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)\, The Library of Congress (USA) Wende Museum (USA)\, Luma Foundation (FR)\, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DE). \nHe is senior lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication\, University of the Arts London\, and a current PhD researcher at the London School of Economics department of media and communication. \nChaired By:\nJames Bulgin is Head of Public History at Imperial War Museums and was previously Head of Content for the award-winning new Holocaust Galleries. Before joining IWM James worked as a commercial theatre producer and director\, with work in the West End and on national tour. He has recently completed his PhD at Royal Holloway College\, University of London on ideas of apocalypse in Holocaust and Cold War history and he has an MA (with distinction) in Holocaust Studies. His academic research focuses on issues of representation in Holocaust literature and film and he has presented papers at conferences in the UK\, Germany and Israel. He is the author of the book The Holocaust and is the presenter of How the Holocaust Began for the BBC.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-depravitys-rainbow-a-dark-history-of-space-travel/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Book event: Susan Ronald\, Hitler’s Aristocrats —The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941 With Amanda Foreman
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear author Susan Ronald in conversation with award-winning author and historian Amanda Foreman about Susan’s new book\, Hitler’s Aristocrats. \nAbout the speakers: \nSusan Ronald is a British-American historian\, biographer\, and acclaimed author of ten books\, four of which are about the influencers and enablers of Hitler\, the Nazis\, and appeasers in World War II: Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt\, the Nazis\, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures — A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty\, Noted Philanthropist\, and Nazi Collaborator — The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James’s 1938–1940. Her tenth book is entitled Hitler’s Aristocrats—The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis 1923–1941. Hitler’s Aristocrats was published in March 2023 by Amberley Publishing in the U.K. and St. Martin’s Press/Macmillan in the U.S.A. \nBefore becoming a fulltime writer in 2012\, Susan was the main commercial advisor on project finance and redevelopment to English Heritage\, the National Trust\, five British government departments\, and the Palace for the restoration of historic assets to alternative use\, including St. Pancras Chambers\, Giant’s Causeway\, and HMY Britannia. She was the Chief Executive of the British Shakespeare Association from 2009-2011 and Secretary and Treasurer of the Biographer’s Club from 2007-2011. She lives in a quintessential Cotswold village near Oxford with her writer husband and has three grown children. \nAmanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers\, ‘Georgiana\, Duchess of Devonshire’\, and ‘A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided’. In 2016\, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. That same year\, her BBC documentary series\, ‘The Ascent of Woman’\, was released. In 2019 she was invited to curate a special exhibition for Buckingham Palace as part of its summer opening. \nForeman has been a columnist for The Sunday Times and the Smithsonian Magazine. Currently\, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly ‘Historically Speaking’. Her next book\, ‘The World Made by Women: A New History of Humanity’\, is scheduled to be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. She is also a CBS News royal contributor.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-event-susan-ronald-hitlers-aristocrats-the-secret-power-players-in-britain-and-america-who-supported-the-nazis-1923-1941-with-amanda-foreman/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Przemysłowa Concentration Camp for Children – Katarzyna Person\, Johannes-Dieter Steinert
DESCRIPTION:As part of our new academic books event series\, The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host the authors of Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp\, the Children\, the Trial\, Dr Katarzyna Person and Prof Johannes-Dieter Steinert. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nThis book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemysłowa street\, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt as the Germans called it\, was a concentration camp for children. The camp at Przemysłowa existed for just over two years\, from December 1942 until January 1945. During that time\, an unknown number of children\, mainly Polish nationals\, were imprisoned there and subjected to extreme physical and emotional abuse. For almost all\, the consequences of atrocities which they endured in the camp remained with them for the rest of their lives. This book focuses on the establishment of the camp\, the experience of the child prisoners\, and the post-war investigations and trials. It is based on contemporary German documents\, post-war Polish trials and German investigations\, as well as dozens of testimonies from camp survivors\, guards\, civilian camp staff and the camp leadership. \nAbout the Speakers:\nKatarzyna Person is a historian of the Holocaust working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw\, Poland. \nJohannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton\, UK. \n  \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease 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).\nIf 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.\nThe event will be recorded for the Library’s YouTube channel and will be shared at a later date.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-book-talk-przemyslowa-concentration-camp-for-children-katarzyna-person-johannes-dieter-steinert/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks
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