To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, René Cassin together with The Wiener Holocaust Library, Waging Peace and the Darfur Diaspora Association UK, is hosting a joint event where we will learn about the current situation in Darfur and South Sudan, challenges facing survivors and their families as they seek safety in the UK and the allyship and support we can offer.
In this discussion, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the publication of the third edition of Martin Winstone’s The Holocaust Sites of Europe, Winstone and Professor Gilly Carr will consider issues of significance to those interested in the memorialisation of the Holocaust and the preservation of its material history, including the question of what constitutes a ‘Holocaust site’, and how these sites have changed in recent years.
The world’s largest decentralised memorial art installation, the Stolperstein (stumbling stone) project has placed over 100,000 stones in 26 countries. The stones to be installed in Amsterdam commemorate Dr Margarete Wiener-Saulmann, Kurt Zielenziger, and Bernhard Krieg. All worked for The Wiener Holocaust Library’s predecessor organisation in Amsterdam, the Jewish Central Information Office, and the stones will be placed outside the offices of the JCIO on Jan van Eyckstraat.
The Wiener Holocaust Library is looking for people to bring their stories and artefacts relating to the Second World War, the Nazi era and/or the Holocaust to a ‘Digital Collection Day’ on Friday 10 November (10am – 3pm). The event is part of a nationwide campaign organised by Their Finest Hour, a team based at the University of Oxford and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which is collecting and preserving the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War.
Following the installation of Britain’s first Stolperstein, ‘stumbling stone’, at Golden Square, the Wiener Library will host a panel discussion featuring the artist Gunter Demnig, who will speak about his work.
