Within the context of the fascist conquest of Ethiopia, the history of the Ethiopian Jews, the Beta Israel, is significant. After the arrival of Italian troops in the 1930s, the Jewish group, which has always been divided by the Christian majority, gained special treatment. However, the regime’s attitude towards them changed due to the 1938 racial laws.
Madeline Vadkerty is a Samuel P. Mandell Fellow at Gratz College (Philadelphia, USA) in its Holocaust and Genocide studies doctoral program. Originally from the US, she lives in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she conducts Holocaust-related research at the Slovak National Archive.
In February 2022, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club launched its “The WhY Word” campaign, which is calling on the fans to discontinue using the term “Yid.” Based on the analysis of numerous primary sources, interviews, and on-site research, this presentation seeks to understand the various perspectives on and the contested meanings of the term in the context of Tottenham Hotspur FC and the local fan culture.
Using Ruth Locke’s Private Photographs from the Imperial War Museums Photograph Archive to Explore the Family’s Experiences and Intergenerational Memories.
Cristina Teodora Stoica, a PhD candidate at Western University, Canada, discusses the Deportation and persecution of Romanian Roma ando’Bugo (at the Bug River).
Using data from a new pre-/post-treatment survey of ~3600 North American teenagers, Dr Lerner argues that mandated Holocaust education interventions not only increase factual knowledge and decrease Holocaust denial in general, but that they also correspond with an increased likelihood that students will take necessary action to protect minority communities when confronted with hatred or intolerance.
With an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 victims, the Jasenovac concentration and death camp complex (1941–1945) was a major killing site during the Second World War and the epicentre of state-organized destruction in the fascist Independent State of Croatia. Emil Kjerte’s doctoral research focuses on the Croatian men and women stationed at the camp complex.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Pragya Kaul will explore photographs and writings of Jewish refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society.
On 27 June 1941, the Wehrmact captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok and murdered 2,000 Jews. In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Jake Holliday will draw upon official records, survivors’ accounts and post-war criminal trial papers to try and understand what happened in Białystok that day.
In this virtual doctoral seminar, Mark Frankel will talk about two episodes in the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey’s career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938.
