Trude Levi: The After-effects of the Death Marches and ‘Liberation’
This blog examines several accounts given by Hungarian Holocaust survivor and former Library staff member Trude Levi.
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Virtual Talk: Manfred Goldberg: My Death March Experience
For the final event in our exhibition series, we are delighted to be joined by Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM who will share his experiences of his own death march journey and liberation, led in conversation with Professor Dan Stone.
The Heroic Rescue of Thirteen Prisoners from a Death March near Regensburg
The story of the rescue of thirteen Jewish prisoners from a death march in Bavaria in April 1945.
Virtual PhD and A Cup of Tea: Benno Gantner’s Clandestine Death March Images
This PhD talk examines the clandestine nature and cartographical significance of a series of death march images taken by Benno Gantner from the window of his home as prisoners were marching southeast from Dachau after its liquidation in 1945.
Virtual Panel: The Politics of Dead Bodies
As part of the Library’s exhibition events series, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the forensic turn in Holocaust and genocide studies.
Virtual Panel: Reckonings and Forced Confrontations after the Holocaust
As part of the Library’s new exhibition events series, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss aspects of reckonings with the Holocaust in the immediate post-war period.
Virtual Panel: Remembering the Death Marches
As part of the Library’s new exhibition events series, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss different ways of commemorating the death marches, including pilgrimages, memorials at former Nazi camps and other sites of significance, and artistic and photographic responses to such sites.
Virtual Panel: On the Trail of the Death Marches
As part of the Library’s new exhibition events series, we are pleased to announce a virtual panel of speakers who will discuss the sources and new research methods that have uncovered different aspects of the history of the death marches and the end of the Second World War.
Highlighting the Voices of Survivors
In this staff blog, Dr Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Library, reflects on the prevailing power of survivor testimony.
The Liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora
This blog marks the the 76th anniversay of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora. Written by the Library’s Photo Archivist, Torsten Jugl.
