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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Safe Haven with Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood to speak about their new book\, Safe Haven: The UK’s Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice\, for its new academic book series. \nThe controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed\, and the expense of some £11 million\, it led to just one conviction: that in 1999 of Anthony (Andrzej) Sawoniuk. \nDrawing on previously unavailable archival documents\, transcripts of interviews with suspects\, and disclosures by senior lawyers and policer offers in the War Crimes Units (WCUs)\, in parallel with the history of bungled investigations in the 1940s\, Safe Haven considers for the first time why and how convictions failed to follow investigations. Within the broader context of war crimes investigations in the United States\, Germany\, and Australia\, the authors reassess the legal and investigative processes and decisions that stymied inquiries\, from the War Crimes Act itself to the restrictive criteria applied to it. Taken together\, the authors argue that these — including the interpretations of who could and should be prosecuted and decisions about the nature and amount of evidence needed for trial — meant that many Nazi collaborators escaped justice and never appeared in a criminal court. \nThe authors situate this history within the legacy of the Holocaust: how\, if at all\, do the belated attempts to address a failure of justice sit with an ever-growing awareness of the Holocaust\, represented by memorialization and education? In so doing\, Safe Haven provokes a timely reconsideration of the relationship between law\, history\, and truth. \nAbout the Speakers \n Jon Silverman was a BBC news journalist for twenty-six years. He was a correspondent in Paris (1987—1989) and spent thirteen years (1989—2002) as Home Affairs Correspondent. In 1996\, he was named Sony ‘Radio Journalist of the Year’ for his reports for the ‘Today’ programme (Radio 4) on the UK’s Nazi war crimes inquiries. He has been a research professor at the University of Bedfordshire since 2007 where he has focused on the media and justice in post-conflict states. He has written numerous journal articles\, mainly relating to research work in West and East Africa and the involvement of the International Criminal Court. \nRobert Sherwood was an operational Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police Service\, retiring in 2003. Having obtained an Honours Degree in Law in 1993 he returned to university in 2011 (Royal Holloway\, University of London) and obtained a MA in Holocaust Studies with a distinction in his dissertation comparing the UK War Crimes Team to the US War Crimes Teams. This ignited his interest in the subject of war crimes\, leading him to undertake research for a doctorate in the UK War Crimes Team since 1945\, receiving the doctorate in March 2020. He is now semi-retired\, concentrating on academic pursuits. \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.\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-safe-haven-with-jon-silverman-and-robert-sherwood/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Event: Curators in Conversation: Genocidal Captivity\, Rebecca Jinks with Christine Schmidt
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt\, curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition\, Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women\, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition and their curatorial choices. The discussion will include an overview of Dr Jinks’ research project\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council\, to analyse the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors in 1915 and 2014\, as well as reflections on challenges and choices they made in presenting this research as an exhibition. \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Rebecca Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. 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. Her current research project\, ‘Genocidal Captivity’\, is funded by the AHRC and explores the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women genocide survivors in 1915 and 2014. \nDr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts\, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany\, and comparative studies of collaboration\, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. Her current project focuses on a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s. \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.\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-event-curators-in-conversation-genocidal-captivity-rebecca-jinks-with-christine-schmidt/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: Reconfiguring Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire - Displacement and Relief in Turkestan\, 1914-1924
DESCRIPTION:To the starving Volga Region from Red Turkestan’ (Tashkent\, 1921). Source: Russian Perspectives on Islam \nPart of our new seminar series\, Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nDuring the First World War\, nearly 300.000 refugees and prisoners of war were displaced to Turkestan\, which brought the local population into direct contact with a conflict that was being waged thousands of miles away in Russia’s Western borderlands and on the Caucasus front. After the end of the war and the collapse of the Russian Empire\, Central Asia once again became host to refugees fleeing catastrophe in Soviet Russia. In 1921\, when famine struck the Volga region\, the Soviet government transported thousands of people to remote parts of the nascent USSR. \nThis presentation will examine efforts to provide relief to displaced persons in Central Asia during the First World War and the early 1920s\, in order to understand how it was reconfigured under the conditions of the new revolutionary state. What practices of relief survived the collapse of the old regime? How were these adapted by the Bolsheviks to fit the political context of early 1920s? What can this tell us about how the Red Cross was thought to contribute to building the new\, socialist order? \nMore broadly\, it will explore how the nature of humanitarianism changed in this period. While the domestic the activities of voluntary organizations such as the Russian/Soviet Red Cross act as a starting point\, my project also explores the transnational connections created by humanitarian aid and hopes to integrate the Russian/Soviet case into the wider literature on the history of humanitarianism\, which still tends to neglect non-western perspectives. \nAbout the Speaker:\nHanna Matt is a PhD candidate at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Her dissertation examines humanitarian relief in late Imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union by considering different groups of displaced persons\, including refugees\, prisoners of war\, and victims of famine in Central Asia. In 2022/23 she spent time in Tashkent as an affiliated visiting researcher at the History Institute of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. She is also the postgraduate representative for the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies’ Eurasian Regions Study group and a co-editor for the UK-based digital histories project ‘Peripheral Histories?’. \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/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-reconfiguring-humanitarianism-in-the-margins-of-empire-displacement-and-relief-in-turkestan-1914-1924/
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition Talk: Sinjar Destroyed: Photographs and stories of the aftermath of ISIS genocide in northern Iraq
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nAlmost a decade since the so-called Islamic State committed genocide against the Yezidi population of Iraq\, thousands of displaced Yezidis remain in crowded camps dotted across the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. With little to no hope of returning to their destroyed homeland of Sinjar\, those in the camps face increasingly limited access to resources\, education\, and healthcare\, while their struggle continues to obtain justice and accountability for the crimes committed against them. \nSince December 2016\, photojournalist Claire Thomas has been covering stories related to the devastation ISIS wrought in northern Iraq\, the human cost of the conflict to defeat the terror group\, and the genocide and mass displacement of the Yezidi population. Her work also explores the challenges Yezidis face in returning to Sinjar\, from the physical destruction of their homes and communities to the perceived threat from ISIS-affiliated families living in Sinjar. \nIn this talk\, Claire will share a selection of her most impactful images from Iraq and discuss some of the stories of the women\, men\, and children she’s met and photographed since 2016. She will highlight the challenges of documenting survivors’ stories and covering sensitive issues with the understanding and empathy needed to preserve the dignity of those sharing such harrowing experiences. \nAbout the Speaker \nClaire Thomas is an acclaimed photojournalist and fine art photographer from Wales\, currently based between the UK and Egypt. Her focus on photojournalism spans critical subjects such as political and military conflicts\, human rights\, and humanitarian and environmental crises. From refugee camps in Europe to the frontlines against ISIS in Iraq\, Claire has contributed impactful photo essays to leading global newspapers\, magazines\, and news agencies. \nHer work earned recognition at the 2023 Amnesty International UK Media Awards for its profound impact\, specifically for coverage in northeast Syria. Claire’s photography has garnered accolades\, including UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards\, Press Gazette British Journalism Awards for Photojournalist of the Year\, and inclusion in Women Photograph’s 2019 Year in Pictures. Claire has also served as a judge for various international photography competitions. \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.\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/sinjar-destroyed-photographs-and-stories-of-the-aftermath-of-isis-genocide-in-northern-iraq/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
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