BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Wiener Holocaust Library - ECPv6.7.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Wiener Holocaust Library
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20240331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20241027T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20230821T092713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151212Z
UID:13808-1713279600-1713283200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:PhD and a Cup of Tea: From Victimized to Victorious: The Marxist and Zionist Choreographies of Yehudit Arnon\, in the Framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary in the Immediate Post-War Period
DESCRIPTION:Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust\nFor her doctoral dissertation Gdalit Neuman researched the earliest dance repertoire of Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s founding artistic director\, the late Yehudit Arnon\, in the framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary in the immediate post-war period. \nThis was but one aspect of the relief and rehabilitation provided to Hungarian Jewish children by Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust following their significant and successful efforts to save Hungary’s Jews. Through dance reconstruction techniques\, personal accounts and stunning photography\, in this talk Neuman will illuminate some of the incredible and often less-known story of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary during\, and especially\, after the Holocaust; from resistance to resilience\, to recovery and renewal. \nAbout the Speaker\nGdalit Neuman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto\, where she completed both her BFA and MA in dance\, and where she was on faculty for five years. Her writings and research on dance and Zionism have been published in The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance\, Performance Matters online journal\, Dance International Magazine\, The Dance Current magazine\, as well as Dance Today and Rokdim-Nirkoda magazines in Israel. \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-from-victimized-to-victorious-the-marxist-and-zionist-choreographies-of-yehudit-arnon-in-the-framework-of-hashomer-hatzair-zionist-youth-movement-in-hungary-in-the-immediate-po/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/hockey-team-1-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240417T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240417T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240229T104443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151212Z
UID:14976-1713380400-1713384000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: The Weavers of Trautenau\, Janine Holc in conversation with Anna Hájková
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in late 1940\, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec\, Poland\, and its surrounding towns to worksites in the Sudetenland\, in today’s Czech Republic. Believing that they were helping their families to survive\, these young people were thrust into a world where they laboured at textile work for twelve hours a day\, lived in barracks with little food\, and received only periodic news of events back home. By late 1943\, their barracks had been transformed into concentration camps\, where they were held until liberation in 1945. \nUsing a fresh approach to testimony collections\, Professor Janine P. Holc reconstructs the forced labour experiences of young Jewish females\, as told by the women who survived and shared their testimony. Incorporating new source material\, the book carefully constructs survivors’ stories while also taking a theoretical approach\, one alert to socially constructed\, intersectional systems of exploitation and harm. The Weavers of Trautenau elucidates the limits and possibilities of social relations inside camps and the challenges of moral and emotional repair in the face of indescribable loss during the Holocaust. \nAbout the Speakers\nJanine P. Holc is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism: Polish-Jewish Relations Today. The Weavers of Trautenau was a finalist for a US National Jewish Book Award. \nDr Anna Hájková is a Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick\, UK\, and the author of the celebrated monograph\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (OUP 2020). \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/virtual-book-talk-the-weavers-of-trautenau-janine-holc-in-conversation-with-anna-hajkova/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Academic Book Talks,New and Noteworthy Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/9781684581696.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240418T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240327T170510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151212Z
UID:15070-1713465000-1713470400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Jewish Revolt by Rachel Auerbach\, with Professor Antony Polonsky
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Auerbach (1903 – 1976) was born in the Galician city of Łanowce\, and in the 1920s studied philosophy and psychology in Lviv. She then moved to Warsaw and worked as a journalist. In the 1940s\, Auerbach ran a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto\, and was involved in the creation of Emanuel Ringelblum’s underground archive Oyneg Shabes (‘The Joy of Sabbath’) in the ghetto. She witnessed the 1943 uprising\, and managed to escape\, surviving in hiding. \nAuerbach wrote Der Yidisher Oyfshtand: Varshe 1943 (The Jewish Revolt: Warsaw 1943) in 1948. it was first published in Yiddish in Warsaw. This book has now been translated and published in English for the first time. \nRachel Auerbach was one of the three post-war survivors of the underground Oyneg Shabbes. This book aimed both to commemorate the Jewish fighters who took up arms in the first major act of resistance to the Nazis and to describe the course of their revolt. \nAuerbach produced a large corpus of work on the fate of the Jews under Nazi occupation\, including Yizker\, a moving lament for the Jews of Warsaw written in 1943\, almost none of which has been translated into English. It is our hope that its publication will stimulate interest in the work of this important writer. \nAbout the Speaker\nAntony Polonsky is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of Global Education Outreach Project of  the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews\, Warsaw. His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1\, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3\, 1914 to 2008 (Oxford\, 2010\, 2012)\, published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014)\, which has been translated into French\, Polish and Lithuanian. \nIn 1999\, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010)\, the Jagiellonian University (2014) and the Polish University Abroad (Polski Uniwersytet na obczyźnie\, 2022). \n  \nThe re-publication of The Jewish Revolt was supported by The Jewish Brand. The Jewish Brand is a charity that is building with world-beating web 3 technology a world-wide Jewish community platform. It’s a dynamic hub uniting global Jewish communities through creativity. Via new tech\, social media\, streaming\, and an interactive marketplace\, we advance Jewish culture\, promote unity\, and combat antisemitism. Join us as we make history\, leaving an indelible mark on Jewish heritage and beyond.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-the-jewish-revolt-by-rachel-auerbach-with-professor-antony-polonsky/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:New and Noteworthy Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/auerbach.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240424T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240305T091528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:14998-1713983400-1713988800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Exhibition Event: Saving the Survivors: Danish relief workers and Armenian women genocide survivors in the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Karen Jeppe’s Rescue Home\, Aleppo\, mid-1920s. Photograph provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation\, Yerevan\, Armenia. \nZumroot Godjanian\, from Urfa\, c.1924. Photograph provided by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation\, Yerevan\, Armenia. \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person. \n*Change of speaker* \nThis talk will now be delivered by Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition. \nBetween 1921 and 1930\, 1\,880 Armenian survivors who had escaped genocidal captivity were taken in by the Danish relief worker Karen Jeppe\, who ran a Rescue Home on the outskirts of Aleppo. Most stayed a few months\, some just days\, some years\, until they located their relatives or had learnt a trade and could earn a living. \nFor each survivor she took in\, Karen Jeppe recorded their names\, ages\, place of birth\, parents’ names\, photography\, and a short version of their story: ten of these stories of survival are featured in our exhibition Genocidal Captivity. \nTo commemorate the 109th anniversary of the Armenian genocide\, historian Matthias Bjørnlund will join us from Copenhagen to discuss Karen Jeppe’s unique relief and rescue methods\, in the broader context of Danish humanitarian relief efforts in the aftermath of the genocide. \nBjørnlund’s discussion will be followed by a very special event: the reading of a play\, Sorrow is Turned into Joy\, written and performed by a group of Armenian women survivors in 1924\, in Thessaloniki\, for visiting Danish humanitarians. The play addresses their recent experiences of genocide and loss. The reading is directed by the distinguished theatre and opera director Seta White. \nAbout the Speaker:\nMatthias Bjørnlund is a historian and genocide scholar specializing in the Armenian genocide and related issues. He has\, written a comprehensive analysis and overview of the Armenian genocide\, a monograph on women relief workers and missionaries before\, during\, and after 1915\, and chapters on sexual violence during genocide. He was a university lecturer for a number of years\, and is currently working as an academic consultant for Danish Institute for International Studies. \nSeta White is a theatre and opera director\, theatre maker and actor. Trained at Bretton Hall University College – B.A. (Hons) Theatre Arts – there is a strong emphasis in multidisciplinary work throughout Seta’s work\, and she has devised work across dance\, music and drama\, most often in highly collaborative environments. Seta is particularly drawn to developing work with people who otherwise do not have a voice\, to find their stories & discover how they want their stories told.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-event-saving-the-survivors-danish-relief-workers-and-armenian-women-genocide-survivors-in-the-1920s/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity,Genocide,HGRP
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/12-scaled.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240429T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240130T140228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:14865-1714415400-1714420800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Exhibition Film Event\, Part I: Suzanne Khardalian\, Grandma’s Tattoos
DESCRIPTION:This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Content warning: Please note that this film contains descriptions of sexual violence.  \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition for a special two-part film screening event and QA with the film’s director\, Suzanne Khardalian. In Part I\, Grandma’s Tattoos (58 min) will be screened. \nSuzanne Khardalian will join the event via Zoom to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. \nGrandma’s Tattoos is a personal film about what happened to many of the Armenian women during the 1915 genocide. Author and filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian makes a personal journey into her own family’s history to investigate the truth behind the experiences of Khanoum\, her late grandmother. The film is like a ghost story; a mystery\, a taboo. No one wants to tell the whole story. In order to bring the pieces of the puzzle together the film moves between different scenes\, from today’s welfare Sweden all the way to Suzanne Khardalian’s childhood in Beirut. Through travels to Armenia\, Lebanon\, Syria and USA we also meet the children of other tattooed Armenian women and understand that their trauma was common\, that rape and sexual violence was a “typical” fate for all those women who survived the ordeal. Grandma’s Tattoos is a story where the worlds of reality and fantasy become so intermingled that it becomes difficult to tell them apart. \nAbout the Speakers \nSuzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until 1988 when she started to work with films. She holds a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School at Tuft’s University and contributes with articles to different journals. She has directed a dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and the United States. \nDr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. The Genocidal Captivity exhibition\, which she has co-curated with Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library)\, forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors\, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-film-event-part-i-suzanne-khardalian-grandmas-tattoos/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GRANDMAS-synopsis.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T150000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240307T105438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15012-1714476600-1714489200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Archive & Library discovery day with the Armenian Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Archive Discovery Day with the Armenian Institute\, organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nDiscover and explore a wealth of resources\, titles\, online access to video testimonies\, references\, and books in different languages\, all in the heart of London\, to support your studies and research projects. Focus on histories of peoples and genocide\, and see how memory is preserved for future generations in these two original institutions. Open in priority to postgraduate students. \nArchive Discovery Day Timings \n11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Introduction to Armenian Institute Archive and Library. This will include a presentation from the AI’s Archivist Kolya Abramsky and Librarians Eddie Arnavoudian and Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian. \n12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Grab some lunch and head over to the Wiener Holocaust Library (24 min walk/19 min public transport). \n2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Introduction to the USC Shoah Foundation Archive at the Wiener Holocaust Library with Dr. Becky Jinks. This session will focus on Armenian oral history testimonies. You will also have the opportunity to view the current exhibition\, Genocidal Captivity: Re-telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women. \nPlease note\, that for the session at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, we’d recommend bringing a laptop and headphones if you can.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/archive-library-discovery-day-with-the-armenian-institute/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Genocidal-Captivity-WebBanner_800x600px.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240430T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T072116
CREATED:20240130T140249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:14868-1714501800-1714507200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Exhibition Film Event\, Part II: Suzanne Khardalian\, Inside Her\, Inside Me
DESCRIPTION:This two-part event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Content warning: Please note that this film contains descriptions of sexual violence.  \nJoin Dr Becky Jinks\, curator of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition for a special two-part film screening event and QA with the film’s director\, Suzanne Khardalian. In Part II\, Inside Her\, Inside Me (68 min) will be screened. \nSuzanne Khardalian will join the event via Zoom to discuss the film and answer questions from the audience. \nSwedish Suzanne Khardalian’s film tells the stories of young Yezidi women in southern Germany. They were brought there through a unique project of the German federal state Baden-Württemberg\, which received 1100 young Yazidi women with the help of the Kurdish local government in northern Iraq. This was a secret project\, but finally Suzanne managed to reach out to Yazidi women in Germany. For nearly three years\, she followed Ghason\, Dalal and Lamia closely\, recording their experiences held in ISIS captivity. The film is told through their point of view. \nAbout the Speakers \nSuzanne Khardalian is an independent filmmaker and writer. She studied journalism in Beirut and Paris and worked as a journalist in Paris until 1988 when she started to work with films. She holds a Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School at Tuft’s University and contributes with articles to different journals. She has directed a dozen films that have been shown both in Europe and the United States. \nDr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway\, University of London. The Genocidal Captivity exhibition\, which she has co-curated with Dr Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library)\, forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors\, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibition-film-event-part-ii-suzanne-khardalian-inside-her-inside-me/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cc.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR