To celebrate the publication of ‘Alice’s Book’, which uncovers the truth about a stolen cookbook and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime, author and historian Karina Urbach will be in conversation with leading political journalist Lord Daniel Finkelstein.
For the next event in the Library’s Family Histories of the Holocaust event series, Dr Christine Schmidt will be talking to Menachem Kaiser about his new book which explores his family’s journey to recover property stolen from them by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Learn how to take the first steps in conducting your own family research using the International Tracing Service archive of the Linen Hall Library’s resources. This workshop will provide a demonstration of the ITS archive and a skills workshop as well as the opportunity for short, one-on-one consultations with the panellists.
This event will explore the history of the ITS archive and what it reveals about the Second World War helps provide context for research, both family and academic, within the archive itself. The discussion will include themes raised by the exhibition, including war, migration, rupture, survival and victimhood.
In this two-day event series we invite those interested in the history of the Second World War, the Holocaust and its aftermath to participate and reflect on the legacies of confronting difficult histories, both on the personal and broader, historical level.
In this guest blog, Joanna Beata Michlic explores two cases of missing child Holocaust survivors for whom searches continue to this day.
In honour of Refugee Week, this blog post follows the story of Peter Briess, who donated his extensive collection of family papers and photographs to the Library.
Professor Wendy Lower in conversation with Dr Christine Schmidt.
As part of its ‘Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust’ events series, the Library is delighted to host a panel discussion of new works that explore Sephardi family microhistories of the Holocaust
