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SUMMARY:Proximities: Space\, Memory\, and Perpetrator Perception in “Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies”
DESCRIPTION:For “Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies\,” British filmmaker Luke Holland (1948–2020) interviewed hundreds of German speaking men and women about their memories of—and involvement in— the Nazi regime\, the war\, and the Holocaust.  \nThe resulting collection\, accessible at the Wiener Holocaust Library\, is rare in its ambition to record oral histories from the “perpetrator side.” Holland’s interviewees were non-Jewish men and women who spent their childhood and their youth in the Nazi era.  \nMost of them grew up in Nazi youth organizations\, and many of them later joined the Wehrmacht\, the SS\, or the Waffen SS. Although not many of them can be seen as hands-on perpetrators\, most of them reveal some degree of complicity. \nIn his presentation Zoltán Kékesi talks about his work with the collection and focuses on the interplay between space\, perception\, and memory. While we know so much about the characteristic spaces of the Third Reich\, imagined and constructed\, such as the expansionist notion of Lebensraum\, the examples of Nazi architecture\, or the design of the concentration camps\, there has been less attention on how these spatialities were experienced\, perceived\, and remembered by ordinary Germans. Yet\, perception is central to our sense of involvement and space is key to how we remember our past: involvement implies proximity while our memories are inherently spatial.  \nIn his talk\, Zoltán Kékesi uses examples from Holland’s monumental work to explore questions related to spaces of everyday life\, political rituals\, and mass violence in the Nazi era. \nAbout the Speaker\nZoltán Kékesi is a cultural historian of Central and East Central Europe with an interest in memory studies. He works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Collective Violence\, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies\, University College London. He is the author of two books in English: Agents of Liberation. Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film (Central European University Press\, 2015)\, and Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History\, Routledge\, 2023). \nThis event is supported by the Pears Foundation.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/proximities-space-memory-perpetrator-perception-final-account/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collections
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SUMMARY:Book Talk & Performance: The Piano Player of Budapest - Unearthing a family's melodies and memories
DESCRIPTION:When her father died\, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather\, Stephen\, playing one of his compositions\, the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano\, this man and her family begins to unravel. \nStephen de Bastion was a concert pianist and film composer and found success in and around his native Hungary in the 1930s. Being of Jewish descent\, Stephen was sent to the Russian front as a forced labourer. He survived both the labour camp\, as well as a lonely walk back from Russia after their group was disbanded and left to die\, as well as imprisonment in Mauthausen and Gunskirchen camps. \nJoin us for a Q&A with author Roxanne de Bastion to learn about Stephen’s remarkable story of survival\, as well as his music. Roxanne will be joined by her aunt Julie de Bastion (Stephen’s daughter)\, as they share thoughts on how trauma is passed down through generations and how shining a light on the past can be healing for future generations. \nThe evening will close with a performance of some of Stephen’s work by Roxanne.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-performance-the-piano-player-of-budapest-unearthing-a-familys-melodies-and-memories/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Family Histories of the Holocaust,New and Noteworthy Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240613T183000
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Book Talk with LCSCA: The New Antisemitism\, Shalom Lappin
DESCRIPTION:This is an LCSCA event in collaboration with the Wiener Holocaust Library. \nGenerations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity\, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and extremism have returned in force. \nAs Shalom Lappin explains in this worrying book\, an upsurge of antisemitism across the political spectrum has accompanied them. Recent events in the Middle East have transformed it into a tidal wave. \nReviews of ‘The New Antisemitism’: \n“This fine book has found its terrible moment. Shalom Lappin helps us to recognize\, understand and fight against the menace of antisemitism.”\nMichael Walzer\, Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University \n“A deep and thoughtful analysis of a pernicious phenomenon that has made a tragic reappearance in intellectual life.”\nSteven Pinker\, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and author of ‘Rationality’ \nAbout the Speaker\nShalom Lappin is Professor of Natural Language Processing at Queen Mary University of London\, Emeritus Professor of Computational Linguistics at King’s College London\, and Research Scientist at the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interests are the application of machine learning to natural language\, and cognitive modelling of linguistic knowledge. He has written about political issues in publications such as Dissent and The Guardian. \nCatch up on this event via our YouTube channel: \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-with-lcsca-the-new-antisemitism-shalom-lappin/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Antisemitism,New and Noteworthy Books
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SUMMARY:Virtual Student and Teacher Talk: Refugees from Nazism in Britain
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised for Refugee Week 2024. \nIn Europe in the 1930s and 1940s\, economic and political breakdown and the rise of extremist politics turned citizens into refugees. From 1933 onwards\, Jews fled Nazi persecution in Germany and later Austria\, Czechoslovakia and Poland. By 1946\, war\, genocide and forced population movements had created millions of refugees. \nAround 80\,000 Jewish refugees arrived to the UK between 1933 and 1945. Aimed at GCSE and A-Level students\, this talk will utilise sources from the Library’s unique archive to trace some of the journeys made by these 80\,000 refugees\, focusing on ‘ordinary’ people. It will also explore British responses to these refugees\, including governmental actions and the activities of community and voluntary organisations. \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-refugees-from-nazism-in-britain/
LOCATION:Isle of Man
CATEGORIES:Education,Refugees
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SUMMARY:Refugee Week 2024: Refugee policy from the Kindertransport to the present day\, with René Cassin
DESCRIPTION:An event to mark Refugee Week 2024 with René Cassin. \nWhy has the Home Office exacerbated the use of dangerous routes\, such as small boats to cross the English channel\, when the UK society has a history of welcoming refugees via safe routes via the Kindertransport?  \nThese boats used are often overcrowded and the people on board are at risk of capsizing\, hypothermia\, and collisions with larger vessels. Refugees and asylum seekers have little choice but to make these journeys. There is no evidence to support the government’s claim that their harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers serves as a deterrent for people seeking refuge and asylum to make the journey to the UK. Even if it were true\, we see no moral\, legal\, or economic reason to deter refugees in the first place.  \nThere is particular alarm about the government’s dismissive response to the Home Affairs Committee’s recommendation for establishing safe routes. Between November 1938 and September 1939\, the UK’s Kindertransport Scheme helped 10\,000 Jewish children travel to Britain and escape the Holocaust. A voluntary scheme led by organisations including the Central British Fund for German Jewry (now known as World Jewish Relief) welcomed fleeing children and oversaw their welfare\, ensuring them a safe home in the UK.  \nThe government has repeatedly spoken of the illegal ways refugees and asylum seekers enter the UK\, without providing safe and legal routes for them after their often dangerous fleeing from persecution. This hostile environment undermines the Refugee Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights\, set out in response to Jewish experience in the Holocaust. The government has failed to learn from history\, and it is imperative that we remind it of its lessons.  \nThis panel\, hosted by René Cassin\, will take us from the Kindertransport to the present day\, exploring how and why vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers risk their lives to make the UK their home and what we can do about the implementation of safe and legal routes. \n About the speakers:\nEnver Solomon is Chief Executive Officer at Refugee Council. Before joining the Refugee Council\, he held senior management posts at the National Children’s Bureau\, the Children’s Society and Barnardos. He has also sat on advisory boards at the Department for Education\, HM Inspector of Prisons and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner. His Chairmanship roles have included the Standing Committee for Youth Justice\, End Child Poverty Campaign and the trustee board of Asylum Aid. \nDebora Singer has been working part-time at René Cassin since July 2019. As Safeguarding Human Rights Lead her focus is on protecting and promoting the human rights framework in the UK. Debora’s background is in policy and campaigning for the rights of women seeking asylum at Asylum Aid and for survivors of sexual and domestic violence whilst at Victim Support. Debora’s family were refugees from Nazi Germany and this underlies her passion for human rights. In 2012 she was awarded an MBE for services to women. \nZoe Gardner is an independent migration and asylum policy specialist\, researcher\, advocate\, and writer. Before working independently\, Zoe has a long history of working for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Brussels\, Asylum Aid\,  the Race Equality Foundation\, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the European Network on Statelessness. She was on the board of Trustee Medical Information for Ethnic Minorities (MIEM) and Tell MAMA\, and the steering committee of Movement Against Xenophobia.  
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/refugee-week-2024-refugee-policy-from-the-kindertransport-to-the-present-day-with-rene-cassin/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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SUMMARY:Safe Haven - the Leslie Brent story: Travelling Exhibition and Talk
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Brent \nChild refugees at Dovercourt Holiday Camp \nIn September 2022 a statue was unveiled at Harwich quayside of 5 figures of refugee children to represent the journey to England and the first taste of freedom of nearly 10\,000 Kindertransportees from Europe rescued from Nazi tyranny. \nThe Harwich Kindertransport Memorial and Learning Trust (HKMLT) raised the funding  and commissioned this statue to realise the aim of celebrating the role of Harwich and also nearby Dovercourt in the new and free lives of so many Jewish child refugees. \nThe mobile exhibition Safe Haven – the Leslie Brent story gives some context to the new memorial by describing Leslie’s journey from Berlin to England\, his brief stay in the Dovercourt holiday camp\, and his life from childhood in a new and strange place to his adult career as a distinguished immunologist. \nThis exhibition will be on show on Thursday 20th June at the Wiener Library from 10.00am – 5pm followed by a talk by Mike Levy\, Holocaust educator and author\, based on his extensive research about the importance of Dovercourt in acting as the first safe haven for many kindertransportees. \nThe exhibition will be open to the public all day\, with no need to register\, but attendees for the evening talk can sign up to attend below. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/safe-haven-the-leslie-brent-story-travelling-exhibition-and-talk/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Refugees
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240627T180000
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SUMMARY:Screening: Filmmakers for the Prosecution\, with Sandra Schulberg and Sharon Rosen Leib
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the UTA Theater\, Beverly Hills\, California\nThe US Friends of The Wiener Holocaust Library are pleased to be hosting an event featuring the screening of  Filmmakers for the Prosecution\, a documentary produced by Sandra Schulberg that retraces the steps of two men\, Budd and Stuart Schulberg\, tasked with gathering evidence for the Nuremberg Trials. \nAdapted by director Jean-Christoph Klotz from Ms. Schulberg’s monograph\, the film retraces the hunt for film evidence that helped convict the accused at the Nuremberg Trials. \nThe screening\, at UTA in Beverly Hills\, will be followed by a conversation between Sandra Schulberg and journalist Sharon Rosen Leib. They will discuss the significance of the documentary and the legacies of those who laid the foundations of our knowledge about the Holocaust through their courageous efforts to collect and safeguard the evidence. \nAlso\, Dr. Toby Simpson\, Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library in London\, will discuss the Library’s role in gathering key intelligence and documentation for the prosecution at Nuremberg. The motion pictures and documentary evidence presented in the court room continue to shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. \nLearn more about the work of The Wiener Holocaust Library\, now marking its 90 years of operation\, in a drinks reception following the screening and speakers. \nAbout the Speakers \nAn independent film activist\, Sandra Schulberg founded the IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project)\, co-founded First Run Features\, and now heads the IndieCollect film preservation campaign. Her producer credits include the Oscar-nominated Quills\, Sundance Grand Prize winner Waiting for the Moon\, and Beth’s B Exposed. \nHer work with Nuremberg has allowed her to collaborate with jurists and criminal justice NGOs around the world. Sandra Schulberg led the team that restored Stuart Schulberg’s historic film about the Nuremberg trial\, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today [The Schulberg/Waletzky Restoration]\, a project that took 5 years to complete with the collaboration of archives in the U.S\, Germany\, and Holland. \nSharon Rosen Leib is a former Deputy Attorney General in California’s Department of Justice\, an award-winning freelance journalist and contributing writer for the Forward and the Times of Israel. Her recent essays about Hollywood’s Jewish founders went global – translated into Spanish\, French\, German and Hebrew and were referenced by multiple publications including the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. \nDr Toby Simpson has been Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library since 2019. He completed his PhD in history at the University of Cambridge supervised by Sir Richard Evans with a thesis on criminology and post-war criminal justice reforms in West and East Germany. He led the project Testifying to the Truth: Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust which catalogued\, digitised\, and translated over 1\,000 eyewitness accounts\, gathered by the WHL between 1954 and 1961. Dr Simpson joined the WHL in 2011\, setting up a new programme of exhibitions\, tours\, and events. \nDoors open 6 pm; Introduction 6.15pm; Screening 6.30 – 7.30pm; In-Conversation and Q&A: 7.30-8.15pm; Reception: 8.15-9:30pm \nParking: Ample street parking on Civic Center Drive
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/screening-filmmakers-for-the-prosecution-with-sandra-schulberg-and-sharon-leib/
LOCATION:United Talent Agency Beverly Hills\, 9336 Civic Center Drive\, Beverly Hills\, CA\, CA 90210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wiener Library 90
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