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SUMMARY:Book talk: ‘The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation’ by Roger Moorhouse
DESCRIPTION:Between 1940 and 1943\, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable – and\, until now\, almost completely unknown – humanitarian operation. \nUnder the leadership of the Polish ambassador\, Aleksander Ładoś\, they undertook a systematic programme of forging Latin American passports and identity documents\, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust. \nThe Ładoś operation was one of the largest rescue missions of the Holocaust\, and The Forgers tells this extraordinary story for the first time. The author\, Roger Moorhouse\, will give a short talk about this remarkable book which follows the desperate bids of Jews to obtain life-saving documents\, and their painful uncertainty over whether they will be able to escape the murderous machinery of the Holocaust. After the talk\, Roger and the Director of the Library\, Dr Toby Simpson\, will conduct a conversation about the book\, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. \nAbout the speaker\nRoger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in modern German and Polish history. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw\, he is the author of Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots against the Führer\, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital\, 1939-1945\, The Devil’s Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin\, 1939-41 and\, most recently\, First to Fight: The Polish War 1939\, for which we was awarded the Polish Foreign Ministry’s History Prize in 2019.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-forgers-the-forgotten-story-of-the-holocausts-most-audacious-rescue-operation-by-roger-moorhouse/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocide,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchtime Talk: Anna Nyburg\, The Clothes on Our Backs: How refugees from Nazism revitalised the British fashion trade
DESCRIPTION:Jews had long been active in the clothing trade in Europe\, developing new production and retail methods and excelling as designers. However\, in the UK clothes production was mostly conservative and design was not a concept. What happened to these Jews in the clothing industry after the Nazis came to power in 1933\, bent on ridding Germany of Jews? Many found asylum in Britain\, where soon the refugee owners of Kangol and other firms were employing thousands of British workers at a time of dreadfully high unemployment. And when war broke out\, it was Kangol who made the berets for the British army and other forces. \nBritish companies started to recognise what the refugees could offer: Pringle of Scotland for one could see the benefits of hiring an Austrian refugee designer\, their first. It was he who thought up the twinset which became a huge commercial success. The refugees brought new technology\, new display methods\, a different attitude to export and much more. It was no wonder then that by the end of the war the refugee clothiers were recognised as having made a disproportionate contribution to the economy Just one who was honoured was Miki Sekers\, who was made an MBE in 1955 for services to the fashion industry. \nAdditionally\, to show their gratitude to the land that had saved their lives and given them hope\, several became major patrons to the British arts scene. Harry Djanogly\, supplier of clothing to M&S and a major donor to medical and educational projects also\, was knighted for his services to philanthropy in 1993. Here Anna Nyburg tells their stories. \nAbout the Speaker \nAnna Nyburg is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial college London where she has taught languages for many years. Her PhD dissertation (2009) in Exile Studies studied the way in which refugees from Nazism transformed art publishing in Britain. She is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University of London. \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-lunchtime-talk-anna-nyburg-the-clothes-on-our-backs-how-refugees-from-nazism-revitalised-the-british-fashion-trade/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: 85 Years On: ‘Polenaktion’ and The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht)
DESCRIPTION:On the last weekend of October 1938\, 25\,000 Jews with Polish passports were arrested\, rounded up and deported by train to the Polish border. After living in Germany often for decades\, they were expelled without prior warning. A huge humanitarian catastrophe played out at the German-Polish border. Hundreds were injured and dozens died as they were forced to cross into Poland at gunpoint. \nOnly a few weeks later on 9 and 10 November 1938\, in hundreds of towns across Germany and Austria\, thousands of Jews were terrorised\, persecuted and victimised. The November Pogrom\, known alternatively as Kristallnacht\, also led to the desecration of over 1\,200 synagogues and the looting of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes. Approximately 90 people were killed and over 25\,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to camps. \n85 years on\, this talk explores the experiences of Jewish men\, women and children whose lives were changed forever by the events of the Polenaktion and November Pogrom. \nAimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to gain an understanding of the history of Polenaktion; to explore the November Pogrom from the perspective of eyewitnesses; to consider why the events were so significant; and to reflect on them 85 years on. \nThis session is suitable for those studying the following: \nKS3 & KS4 History: \n\nAQA: Germany\, 1890 – 1945: Democracy and Dictatorship\nEdexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany\, 1918 – 1939\nOCR (History A): Germany\, 1925-1955: The People and The State\nOCR (History B): Living under Nazi Rule\, 1933 – 1945\n\nKS5 History: \n\nAQA: Democracy and Nazism: Germany\, 1918 – 1945\nEdexcel: Germany and West Germany\, 1918 – 1989\nOCR: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919 – 1963
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-85-years-on-polenaktion-and-the-november-pogrom-kristallnacht/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education,Expelled! The History of the "Polenaktion"
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SUMMARY:Their Finest Hour 'Digital Collection Day': A nationwide campaign to preserve Second World War and Nazi-era memories and artefacts
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is looking for people to bring their stories and artefacts relating to the Second World War\, the Nazi era and/or the Holocaust to a ‘Digital Collection Day’ on Friday 10 November (10am – 3pm). \n\n\n\nThe event is part of a nationwide campaign organised by Their Finest Hour\, a team based at the University of Oxford and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund\, which is collecting and preserving the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War. \n\n\n\nAs these stories are fast fading from living memory\, it is vital that they\, and the mementos that often accompany them\, are preserved for future generations. \n\n\n\nAt the Digital Collection Day\, stories about your family’s experiences – and associated objects such as diaries\, letters\, photos\, medals\, and journals– will be recorded\, digitised\, and then uploaded to the Their Finest Hour online archive\, which will be free-to-use from June 2024. \n\n\n\nDr Stuart Lee\, project leader\, said: “We’re delighted to be able to create an archive of memories of the Second World War era. We know from previous projects that people have so many objects\, photos\, and anecdotes which have been passed down from family members which are at risk of getting lost or being forgotten. Our aim is to empower people to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to posterity.” \n\n\n\nThe project team is especially interested in collecting contributions from people whose families lived through the Nazi era in Europe\, 1933-45. \nThere is no need to book if you wish to attend\, please just turn up on the day.\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about the event\, please contact Matthew Kidd. For more information about the project\, please visit the project website (theirfinesthour.org). You can also follow the project’s progress on Facebook\, Twitter\, and Instagram.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/their-finest-hour-digital-collection-day-a-nationwide-campaign-to-preserve-second-world-war-and-nazi-era-memories-and-artefacts/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections,Family Histories of the Holocaust
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231122T180000
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SUMMARY:Fourth Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories: Past\, Present and Future?
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place once again at Gresham College\, and will be delivered by esteemed historian Professor Sir Richard Evans. \nAntisemitism has existed and continues to exist on many levels\, from unthinking prejudice to highly developed theories. Common to all levels is an explicit\, or more often\, implicit belief that all Jews\, usually defined in racial terms\, are conspiring secretly to undermine civilisation\, order\, or social and cultural stability. \nThis lecture considers the evolution of this conspiracy theory since the Middle Ages\, examines its nature and operation today\, and considers its future development. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nProfessor Sir Richard Evans FBA was Provost of Gresham College from 2014-2020. He is a world-renowned historian and academic\, with many of his books now acknowledged as seminal works in the field of modern history. He was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge from 2008 until his retirement in September 2014. \n\nRegister to attend online or in person here.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/fourth-annual-alfred-wiener-holocaust-memorial-lecture-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Gresham College\, Barnard's Inn Hall\, London\, EC1N 2HH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231123T150000
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: Beyond Europe: The history and memory of Jewish Refugees in Japan
DESCRIPTION:The Hikawa Maru\, a ship which took Jewish refugees from Japan to onward destinations in the early 1940s. It’s now stationed in Yokohama in Yamashita Pier  \nPart of our new seminar series\, Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nIn the 1930s and 40s\, many Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe fled their homes to search for safety in countries away from persecution. Some of these destinations\, notably Britain and the United States\, are widely known about. But journeys to Western Europe and North America are only one part of a global story. This talk focuses on Jewish refugees who travelled to Japan\, and who in the process often made journeys covering multiple countries across land and sea. For example\, many Jews who arrived in Kobe\, a city in Japan\, in the early 1940s arrived via Poland\, Lithuania\, and the Soviet Union\, having used the Trans-Siberian railway and sea travel to cross multiple borders. \nFollowing this history\, and drawing on time spent researching in Japan\, this talk will draw on key research questions: how and why did Jewish refugees come to Japan? What were the possibilities open and closed to them? How is this remembered today? \nAbout the Speaker: \nNiamh Hanrahan is a PhD student at the University of Manchester\, based in the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute. Her PhD project is titled Beyond Europe: Jewish Journeys and Humanitarian Aid in Japan (1931-1953)\, covering a history of movement by Jewish refugees from Europe to Japan. Niamh was the postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies in the 2022/23 academic year. She has published research in blogs for the academic website Refugee History and for The Holocaust Centre North and has been awarded fellowships to conduct research in the USA\, Germany\, Japan\, and Australia. \nVirtual seminar 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\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.\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/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-beyond-europe-the-history-and-memory-of-jewish-refugees-in-japan/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231127T200000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Launch – Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Library\, in association with the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, is delighted to invite you to the launch of Music and Exile: From 1933 to the Present Day\, Yearbook 22 of the RCGAES (Brill 2023). \nCo-editors Dr Malcolm Miller and Dr. Jutta Raab Hansen will introduce the Yearbook\, delving into its international scope\, tracing refugee musicians in Europe\, the USA\, Australia\, and Shanghai. They will explore in detail the lives and legacies of three outstanding émigré British musicians: Ferdinand Rauter\, pianist and founder of the Anglo-Austrian Music Society\, the conductor-composer Peter Gellhorn and composer-pianist Franz Reizenstein. \nContributing to the discussion we are delighted to welcome their children Andrea Rauter\, Mary Gellhorn and John Reizenstein\, as well as the singer Norbert Meyn FRCM\, Principle Investigator of the ‘Music\, Migration and Mobility’ project at the Royal College of Music\, and a contributor to the volume. Refreshments will be served. \nAbout the speakers\nMalcolm Miller is Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in Music at the Open University\, UK. He has published widely on Beethoven\, Wagner and contemporary music. His essay ‘Music as Memory: British Émigré Composers and their Wartime Experience’ appeared in The Impact of Nazism on Twentieth-Century Music (ed. Erik Levi\, Böhlau Verlag\, 2014). \nJutta Raab Hansen studied musicology at Berlin Humboldt University and\, in 1988\, joined Peter Petersen’s exile music research group at Hamburg University\, resulting in her PhD thesis NS-verfolgte Musiker in England: Spuren deutscher und österreichischer Flüchtlinge in der britischen Musikkultur (Hamburg\, 1996). Research in the UK\, Australia and Jerusalem (2003–11) included a contribution to ORT’s ‘Music and the Holocaust’ project\, followed by her translation and edition of émigré singer Elena Gerhardt’s 1953 memoirs (Altenburg\, 2012). She worked as a music therapist\, between 2012–18 in Thuringia\, Germany. \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.\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/book-launch-music-and-exile-from-1933-to-the-present-day/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T180000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Debórah Dwork at the Leo Baeck Institute\, New York
DESCRIPTION:Two Roads Home\, Courtesy Doubleday Books  \nThis event has passed. It can be watched in full via the Library’s YouTube channel. \nThis special event hosted in partnership with the Centre for Jewish History will see British journalist and politician\, Daniel Finkelstein OBE\, in conversation with Prof Debórah Dwork in celebration of Two Roads Home: Hitler\, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family\, Daniel Finkelstein’s remarkable new book. Learn more about the legacy of the Wiener Library and the tragic personal histories embedded in its founding. Hosted by the US Friends of the Wiener Holocaust Library\, the talk will be followed by a light drinks reception. \nSpecial guests Chief of Staff to His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America and Consul General to New York Rian Matanky-Becker and renowned journalist Sarah Wildman will open the event. \n\nAbout the Book\n\n\nIn Two Roads Home (Doubleday\, September 2023) beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials they barely survived. Daniel Finkelstein’s grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam\, where they knew Anne Frank. But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel’s mother\, Mirjam\, also still a child\, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters. \nFinkelstein’s father\, Ludwik\, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father\, Dolu was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control\, Dolu\, was deported to Siberia and Ludwik and his mother were sentenced to forced labor in Kazakhstan\, starved and housed in a stable in freezing conditions. \n\nThis event will take place in-person at the Center for Jewish History\, and will be live streamed online. \nAbout the Speakers\n\n\nDaniel Finkelstein is the grandson of the German Jewish scholar activist Alfred Wiener\, who founded the Wiener Library in 1933 in order to warn the world of the Nazi threat. He is weekly political columnist at The Times of London. Formerly an adviser to Prime Minister John Major\, he was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. \n\n\nProfessor Debórah Dwork is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Crimes Against Humanity at The Graduate Center–City University of New York. She is renowned for her scholarship on Holocaust history and her pathbreaking early oral recording of Holocaust survivors\, weaving their narratives into the history she writes. Her award-winning books include: Flight from the Reich (W.W. Norton\, 2012); Auschwitz (W.W. Norton\, 2006); Holocaust (W.W. Norton\, 2002); and Children With A Star (Yale University Press\, 1991). Debórah Dwork is also recipient of the International Network of Genocide Scholars Lifetime Achievement Award (2020) and the Annetje Fels Kupferschmidt Award\, bestowed by the Dutch Auschwitz Committee (2022).
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/daniel-finkelstein-in-conversation-with-deborah-dwork-at-the-leo-baeck-institute-new-york/
LOCATION:Centre for Jewish History\, 15 West 16th Street\, New York\, NY\, NY 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books,Wiener Library 90
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Matthias Weniger – The Restitution of Stolen Silver
DESCRIPTION:Credit: Bastian Krack for the Bavarian National Museum  \nA Joint Wiener Holocaust Library and Second Generation Network event  \nAt this event\, Third Generation Network committee member Tom Willett will introduce Dr Matthias Weniger\, head of provenance research at the Bavarian National Museum. Dr Weniger directs a project tracing the heirs of 111 silver objects confiscated by the German Reich and later bought by the museum. The objects had been seized and sold to the museum as part of the gigantic silver levy imposed on German Jews in 1939. Dr Weniger will explain how he and his small team have been tracing the heirs and returning items to them since 2019. \nBy September 2023\, 54 objects had been restituted to some 70 families across the word; in some cases\, more than 30 descendants are involved in the return of one or two objects. After the talk there will be a chance to ask questions and share stories of family objects that have been returned or restituted. This event is open to members of the First\, Second and Third Generations. \nAbout the speaker: Dr Matthias Weniger has been head of provenance research at The Bavarian National Museum since 2021. Weniger studied Art History in Berlin\, Bonn and Barcelona\, completing his PhD in 1997. He has worked for the State Museums in Berlin\, for the paintings collection in Dresden\, and at The Bavarian National Museum\, Munich. He has long focused on the history of collecting and provenance issues. In 2011 he worked on a project concerned with the sculptures owned by Hermann Göring. Since 2021\, he has led the network of provenance researchers in Bavaria. \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.\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-event-mattias-weniger-the-restitution-of-stolen-silver/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
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