BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Wiener Holocaust Library - ECPv6.7.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Wiener Holocaust Library
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:20240501T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240416T094131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15198-1714579200-1714582800@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Post War Categorization(s): Humanitarian Aid Organizations and Displaced Persons (1945-1951)
DESCRIPTION:Helen Bamber (1925 – 2014) was a British psychotherapist and human rights activist who worked for the Jewish Relief Unit in post-war Germany \nPart of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust.\nUpon arrival in post-war Germany\, humanitarian aid organizations had to take over the care of millions Displaced Persons from military authorities. It became obvious\, that the categorization “Displaced Person” was too broad to describe and handle the diverse group of DPs. The legal term did neither take into consideration the different aspects of vulnerability nor their agency in planning their future after what they had been through. \nThe humanitarian aid organizations – from UNRRA to smaller groups – took part in multiple re-classifications of DPs in subcategories\, such as Jewish DPs or Hard-Core DPs\, which eventually resulted in the term refugee. In her dissertation Christina Wirth analyzes the different agents and practices that took part in categorizing people in transit between 1945 and 1951\, including the individual’s agency and self-classification. \nIn her presentation Christina Wirth will introduce the categorization practices with a case study about the small village Kaunitz in Westphalia\, Germany\, where approximately 800 Jewish women were liberated from a death march and placed in German civilian \nhomes by the liberating American army forces. After the Americans left\, the Jewish Relief Unit as well as the officials of the British Occupation Zone of Germany and the German major were responsible to take care of the DPs in Kaunitz. It will become apparent how the different agents tried to influence the categorization of these 800 women and how categorizations matter\, since they are key for attesting political rights and influence to people in transit. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristina Wirth is a Ph.D. student at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” Mainz\, Germany\, academic staff at the Leibniz Institute for European History\, and is currently the USC Shoah Foundation’s first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies. She studied history and German philology as well as educational studies at Georg-August-University Goettingen and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. \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/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-post-war-categorizations-humanitarian-aid-organizations-and-the-displaced-persons-1945-1951/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea,Refugees
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Roxy-Helen-Bamber-and-prob-Albert-Newark-002.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240502T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240326T133932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15081-1714676400-1714680000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: Archiving ISIS
DESCRIPTION:Islamic State Select Worldwide Activity Map\, Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, A Zelin \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nThis virtual panel will discuss how primary source documentation related to the activities of the transnational jihadist terrorist organisation\, Islamic State (IS\, or ISIS)\, has been collected\, archived and made accessible for research\, intelligence and other purposes over the last two decades. \nChaired by co-curator Dr Becky Jinks\, the panel will discuss the myriad practical and legal issues of collecting IS-related materials\, as well as the ethics of archiving and making accessible extremely sensitive materials that relate to unfolding events. \nAbout the Speakers:\nDr Leyla Ferman is the Co-Founder of Yazidi Justice Committee and Director of Women for Justice. She is the coordinator of FERMAN\, a documentation and education project\, at the Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation in Germany. Before\, she was working as an advisor to the co-Mayors at Mardin Metropolitan Municipality. \nDr Devorah Margolin is the Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Fellow at The Washington Institute and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Her research primarily focuses on terrorism governance\, terrorism financing\, the role of propaganda and strategic communications\, countering/preventing violent extremism\, and the role of women and gender in violent extremism. She was also the Project Manager for the ISIS Files Digital Repository\, a collection of over 15\,000 pages of original ISIS materials found in Nineveh Province in Iraq by the New York Times. \nDr. Aaron Y. Zelin is the Gloria and Ken Levy Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, where he also directs the Islamic State Worldwide Activity Map project. Zelin is also a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University\, Founder of the widely acclaimed website Jihadology\, and a contributing writer for War on the Rock’s Adversarial newsletter. He is author of the book Your Sons Are At Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad (Columbia University Press) and is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Heart of the Believers: A History of Syrian Jihadism. Zelin’s research focuses on Sunni jihadi groups in the Levant\, North Africa\, the Sahel\, and Afghanistan as well as the trends of jihadi governance\, online mobilization\, and foreign fighting. He has conducted field research in Tunisia\, Turkey\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, and Israel. Zelin has also testified and served as an expert witness in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and with the Department of Justice in federal judicial terrorism trials. \nChaired by: \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. \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/virtual-exhibition-panel-archiving-isis/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Image-3-26-24-at-10.27-AM-002.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240513T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240219T121428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:14936-1715626800-1715630400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Exhibition Panel: On Interviewing and Listening to Survivors
DESCRIPTION:The room where Dr Becky Jinks conducted interviews with survivors of genocidal captivity. Khanke\, Northern Iraq. © Claire Thomas \nThis event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. \nThis virtual panel will bring together speakers in conversation\, moderated by Dr Rebecca Jinks\, to discuss their foundational and wide-ranging work on interviewing survivors of the Holocaust and genocide. Reflecting on themes in the Library’s current exhibition\, the panel will explore different contexts in which survivors have ‘testified’ and in which their experiences are told and heard. \nHow do different contexts impact how survivors’ stories are shaped\, retold and received? What is the role of the interviewer in shaping these accounts? What impact do interviews and ‘testimony’ have on the survivors themselves\, the relationships between interviewers and interviewees\, and our understanding of the historical events? How do interviews and ‘testimony’ impact the lives of survivors\, the relationships between interviewers and interviewees\, and our understanding of these events more generally? \nAbout the Speakers \nDr Bea Lewkowicz is an orał historian\, filmmaker and photographer. Her work focusses on identity\, displacement\, trauma and loss\, often through the lens of her interviews with Holocaust survivors and refugees. She is the director and co-founder of the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive and Sephardi Voices UK. Bea has curated exhibitions\, such as ‘Continental Britons’\, ‘Double Exposure’\, ‘Still in Our Hands’ and has directed many testimony-based films. She was one of the academic advisor for the Kindertransport exhibition ‘I said Auf Wiedersehen’\, displayed at the German Bundestag in 2024. Among her publications are ‘The Jewish Community of Salonika: History\, Memory\, and Identity (2006)\, ‘This is the Story of my Life’: An Interview with Julius Carlebach’ (2020)\, and Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria (2022). www.bealewkowiczarchive.com. \nHenry (Hank) Greenspan\, Ph. D.\, is an Emeritus Lecturer IV in the Residential College affiliated with the Social Theory and Practice program. Greenspan is a psychologist\, oral historian\, and playwright at the University of Michigan who has been interviewing\, teaching\, and writing about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s. Rather than single “testimonies”\, Greenspan has pursued multiple conversations with the same survivors over months\, years\, even decades.  That practice\, which  centers on collaborative exploration rather than witness declaration\,  is most fully described in his  On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony. \nAnika Walke is Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. She was recently appointed as the inaugural Askwith Family Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Carnegie Mellon University\, effective August 2025. Her book\, Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Oxford University Press\, 2015) shows how the first generation of Soviet Jews experienced the Nazi genocide and how they have remembered it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. A current research project is devoted to the long aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II in Belarus. From 2014 to 2022\, Walke served as Co-PI of “The Holocaust Ghettos Project: Reintegrating Victims and Perpetrators through Places and Events\,” an NEH-funded endeavor of the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative to develop a Historical GIS of Nazi-era ghettos in Eastern Europe. At the moment\, Dr. Walke is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at Freiburg University (Germany). \nModerated by: \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. \nChaired by: \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-exhibition-panel-on-interviewing-and-listening-to-survivors/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity,Genocide,HGRP
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/projection-screen_-CT_IRAQ_14JUN23_5262-1-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="The Wiener Holocaust Library":MAILTO:info@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T170000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240411T075131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15171-1715702400-1715706000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Forgotten Victims: The Mass Murder of Soviet Prisoners of War (POWs) During the Second World War
DESCRIPTION:British intelligence report on interviews with Soviet POWs who had been forced to serve in German forces\, Wiener Holocaust Library Collections \nOn 22 June 1941\, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa\, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Most historians regard this as the start of the Holocaust and the mass murder of European Jewry. SS Einsatzgruppen units began shooting tens of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews and Roma and Sinti as well as hundreds of political officers (Commissars) in the Soviet Army. \nWithin three months  over a million Soviet soldiers had been taken prisoner but no provision was made for their proper treatment as required by the Geneva Convention. Thousands were shot and beaten to death whilst two million were deliberately starved to death by March 1942 in the wholly inadequate POW camps provided. It is estimated that of 5.7 million Soviet POWs\, up to 3.3 million died between 1941 and 1945 in captivity. \nThis may well have represented the largest mass murder of a particular group in terms of deaths per day (during 1941-2) in human history. \nThis talk looks at the experiences of different groups within the Soviet POW population and how they were affected by Nazi racial\, demographic and economic policies in occupied Eastern Europe. It also looks at the significance of these events in relation to the Holocaust and the questions and issues they raise. \nWith the Library’s Education Officer\, Dr Peter Morgan \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\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/virtual-student-and-teacher-talk-forgotten-victims-the-mass-murder-of-soviet-prisoners-of-war-pows-during-the-second-world-war/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/809-002_003-0001-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240516T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240327T154012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15096-1715878800-1715889600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair - Fate Unknown Exhibition Curator Talk & Drinks Reception
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our Recovery and Repair Programme of events taking place in Cardiff. Find out more about the events programme here. \nJoin the co-curators of the Fate Unknown exhibition\, Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt\, who will explore the remarkable\, little-known story of the search for the missing after the Holocaust. Fate Unknown draws upon The Wiener Holocaust Library’s family document collections and the International Tracing Service archive to illustrate the legacy of the ongoing search for missing victims. \n\n\n\nThey will be joined by Dr Tetyana Pavlush\, Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University\, where they will discuss the development of the exhibition and reflect on some of the issues and themes it highlights. \n\n\n\nThe Curator Talk will be followed by a drinks reception\, providing an opportunity to view the Fate Unknown travelling exhibition and meet the co- curators of the exhibition.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-and-repair-fate-unknown-exhibition-curator-talk-drinks-reception/
LOCATION:Glamorgan Archives\, Clos Parc Morgannwg\, Cardiff\, CF11 8AW
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Manchester-in-situ2-scaled-e1653557978481.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240517T133000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240327T154523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:15100-1715941800-1715952600@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Recovery and Repair: Family History Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our Recovery and Repair Programme of events taking place in Cardiff. Find out more about the events programme here. \nThis workshop will help you take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service digital archive\, including using sources freely available online. \nThe workshop will also feature speakers from family research support services available from other partner organisations\, including Rhian Diggins of the Glamorgan Archives\, Beryl Evans from the National Library Wales\, and Laura Henley Harrison  of the Jewish History Association of South Wales. \nParticipants will have the chance to sign up for one-on-one consultations with The Wiener Holocaust Library’s expert researchers. Bring your research questions! \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recovery-and-repair-family-history-research-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Glamorgan Archives\, Clos Parc Morgannwg\, Cardiff\, CF11 8AW
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust,Family Histories of the Holocaust,Recovery & Repair
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ITS-Manchester-family-history-workshop-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240304T105842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151211Z
UID:14982-1716229800-1716235200@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk: Anne Berest in Conversation with Rachel Seiffert\, The Postcard
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to host this in conversation book talk event with author Anne Berest on her latest book\, The Postcard as part of our Family Histories of the Holocaust series. You can sign up to attend this event in person or online – registration details below. \nAnne Berest’s The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page\, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets\, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters\, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. \nJanuary\, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards\, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front\, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On the back\, the names of Anne Berest’s maternal great-grandparents\, Ephraïm and Emma\, and their children\, Noémie and Jacques—all killed at Auschwitz. \nFifteen years after the postcard is delivered\, Anne\, the heroine of this novel\, is moved to discover who sent it and why. Aided by her chain-smoking mother\, family members\, friends\, associates\, a private detective\, a graphologist\, and many others\, she embarks on a journey to discover the fate of the Rabinovitch family: their flight from Russia following the revolution\, their journey to Latvia\, Palestine\, and Paris. What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling that shatters long-held certainties about Anne’s family\, her country\, and herself. \nWINNER OF THE AMERICAN CHOIX GONCOURT PRIZE \nWINNER OF THE PRIX RENAUDOT DES LYCÉENS \nWINNER OF THE ELLE READERS PRIZE \nFINALIST FOR THE GONCOURT PRIZE \nFINALIST FOR BOOK CLUB FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD \nFINALIST FOR FICTION FOR NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD \nAbout the Speakers\nAnne Berest is the bestselling co-author of How to Be \n Parisian Wherever You Are (Doubleday\, 2014) and the author of a novel based on the life of French writer Françoise Sagan. With her sister Claire\, she is also the author of Gabriële\, a critically acclaimed biography of her great-grandmother\, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia\, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse. She is the great-granddaughter of the painter Francis Picabia. For her work as a writer and prize-winning showrunner\, she has been profiled in publications such as French Vogue and Haaretz newspaper. The recipient of numerous literary awards\, The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize and has been a long-selling bestseller in France. \nRachel Seiffert is a British novelist\, whose first book\, The Dark Room (2001)\, explored the legacy of Nazi guilt in Germany through the related stories of three twentieth-century Germans. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction the \n \nsame year\, and won a Betty Trask Award in 2002. Rachel has worked in film and community education and currently writes for a living. In 2003 she was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. Her book A Boy in Winter (2017)\, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award. \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-anne-berest-in-conversation-with-rachel-seiffert-the-postcard/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-Postcard.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T160000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240311T101118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151210Z
UID:15017-1716476400-1716480000@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition PhD and a Cup of Tea: British Representations of the Armenian Genocide and the Role of Gender
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nDuring the First World War the authorities of the Ottoman Empire headed by the Committee of Union and Progress carried out a policy of genocide against the empire’s Armenian minority population. This presentation will examine the interaction between British politicians\, writers and national and local newspapers as they dealt with this subject at a time when the divisions between the civilian and military spheres during ‘Total War’ were being eroded. As this unfolded there was a growing acceptance of this erosion at the same time as a mounting condemnation of the process. \nIt will demonstrate that a polemical and listing ‘literature of denunciation’ of carefully described acts of atrocity (‘atrocitarian’)\, often on an individual level\, underwent significant change. It was supplemented with one involving criterion-driven descriptions of staged and facilitating acts of the mass killing of civilians as groups rather than individuals. In short these were descriptions of a process of systematic extermination. \nThese representations demonstrated a growing awareness of how an ethnic or religious group could be taken to pieces and partially or completely destroyed. This was also closely linked to an apparent understanding of how geographical areas could be statistically altered in terms of population and homogenised. The tropes mobilised in these representations used biomedical language and concepts\, and often referred to a rural idyll. Moreover\, these representations often mirrored to an extent the language and rationales of the perpetrators themselves. \nTo tie in with the Library’s current ‘Genocidal Captivity’ exhibition which focuses on the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women facing genocide in 1915 and 2014\, this presentation will concentrate on how much of this discourse was highly gendered. It will demonstrate how the increasingly analytical descriptions of a process of extermination contained within them an awareness of the importance of stages of persecution that were directed firstly against men\, and then women and children. Furthermore\, an understanding of the particular role of women within the structure of an ethnic group and how an attack on them facilitated its destruction\, in whole or in part. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Peter Morgan studied history at the University of Leeds between 1986 and 1989 before working as a history teacher in secondary schools for 21 years. Since 2010 he became increasingly involved in Holocaust education. He left the teaching profession in 2015 to research and write a doctoral thesis on British Representations of the Armenian Genocide 1915-23 at the University of Brighton. \nRoutledge has included a chapter on this work in a collection on Communication in the First World War (2020) and is planning to publish a monograph later this year or next. He has recently started work as an education officer at the Wiener Holocaust Library. \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-exhibition-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-british-representations-of-the-armenian-genocide-and-the-role-of-gender/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Genocidal Captivity,PhD and a Cup of Tea
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:20240523T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240523T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T071401
CREATED:20240327T120240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T151210Z
UID:15090-1716489000-1716494400@wienerholocaustlibrary.org
SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition Event: The Yezidi Genocide today - ‘It’s been nine years\, and we are still there\, in the tent’
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nWhat are the challenges facing Yezidi genocide survivors and internally displaced people living in the camps of northern Iraq today? How is Yezidi society changing? How do survivors feel about returning to their homes in Sinjar\, the administration of the Iraqi government compensation scheme\, and efforts to seek justice and accountability? And how are humanitarian organisations trying to help them meet these needs? \nJoin exhibition curators Dr Rebecca Jinks and Dr Christine Schmidt in conversation with Hewan Omer and Khalida Ilyas\, Country Director and Livelihoods Manager of Yezidi charity Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF)\, which partnered in gathering the research for the exhibition Genocidal Captivity.  FYF supports the Yezidi community in the aftermath of the 2014 Yezidi Genocide. \nFYF promotes the rights and well-being of Yezidis in Iraq and the diaspora\, with an emphasis on women’s empowerment\, the pursuit of justice\, and helping the community rebuild through trauma treatment\, education\, training\, and economic development. \nAbout the Speakers\nHewan Omer is Country Director of the Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF). Hewan is one of thousands of Yezidis who fled ISIS’ genocide against the community in 2014\, enduring the struggles and discrimination that came with protracted displacement. After graduating with an English degree from the University of Duhok in 2016\, she worked as a translator and interpreter\, English language instructor\, secretary\, and women’s rights advocate. Having experienced religious and gender-based discrimination in previous jobs\, Hewan came to FYF with a strong dedication to fight for the rights of Yezidis\, particularly women. She has been a profound changemaker\, helping the community rebuild through trauma treatment\, education\, training\, and economic development. In 2020\, Hewan was nominated to become a member of CARE’s Global Women’s Advisory Board for Advocacy – a forum that brings together feminist leaders and activists from around the world. As a member of the board\, she advocates for the rights of women\, supporting and empowering them to obtain justice\, and amplifies the unheard stories of ISIS survivors. Hewan regularly meets with high-level government officials and visiting delegations to explain the plight of the Yezidis. She is a skilled public speaker who has advocated for the Yezidi cause at international conferences\, commencement events\, virtual panels\, and media outlets. As FYF’s Country Director\, Hewan oversees the organization’s operations in Iraq\, empowering her colleagues to build their capacities and step into leadership roles. \nKhalida Ilyas is Country Director and Livelihoods Manager of the Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF). Khalida\, a biology graduate turned humanitarian\, has been pivotal in rebuilding livelihoods post-Yezidi Genocide. Rising from translator to Livelihoods Manager at the Free Yezidi Foundation\, she leads programs empowering Yezidi and other vulnerable women with skills and income generation opportunities. Khalida manages programming at the Foundation’s Enterprise and Training Center\, driving economic independence and community resilience. \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.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-event-its-been-nine-years-and-we-are-still-there-in-the-tent/
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/2024/03/IMG_9709-scaled.jpeg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR