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E-Newsletter for October 2022 |
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We were delighted to launched our latest exhibition, 'There was a time...' on 21st September.
Featuring selected photographs from twelve family collections, the exhibition shows domestic, everyday photographs from our unique family papers collection. They span holiday snaps from the 1920s, photo-postcards sent during the First World War, and formal studio portraits from the 1890s.
The Library holds the UK’s largest archive of family papers related to Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, including extensive collections of photographs: portraits, snapshots and albums. Family photographs have often been overlooked as historical or artistic objects in their own right. This exhibition asks visitors to reconsider their significance.
The exhibition is on display until 4th November, and is accompanied by a series of events:
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We are seeking a Digital Asset Manager & Project Lead who can pro-actively implement new workflows and standard operating procedures while working in a team.
The key focus of the role will be to help the organisation make the most of its digital assets, its digitisation facilities and the skills of its staff and volunteers.
How to apply
For more details and the person specification, please download the job description.
For an informal talk about this position, please contact Dr Toby Simpson at tsimpson@wienerholocaustlibrary.org.
Please send your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience to: Olivia Oakley, Office Coordinator, ooakley@wienerholocaustlibrary.org.
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Reading Room Exhibition
Our current Reading Room exhibition draws upon historical documents to focus on the theme of the renewal of Jewish communities after the Holocaust. The exhibition features materials from post-war Displaced Persons camps relating to the lives and experiences of Holocaust survivors, and uncover stories of the births, weddings, family reunions and migrations to new lives that happened in these most difficult of circumstances.
This exhibition has been curated as part of B’Nai B’rith UK’s Jewish Heritage Festival.
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The PhD and a Cup of Tea doctoral seminar series is designed for early-career researchers and PhD candidates to present their research for feedback from other researchers, PhD candidates, and faculty in a constructive, inclusive and friendly virtual setting. We are particularly interested in welcoming MA, doctoral students, and faculty to attend the seminars to share their views and perspectives.
Follow the links below to sign up for our upcoming events.
To get involved and to present your research, please contact Dr Christine Schmidt.
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13 October, 6:30-8pm
Part of the Library’s Excavation-Confrontation-Repair? Family Histories of the Holocaust events series. Join online or in person at the Library by registering to attend below.
Maria Chamberlain’s book, Never Tell Anyone You’re Jewish is a story of two assimilated Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Poland in the eye of the Holocaust. The two families were joined by marriage after the war and Maria was born soon after. Not surprisingly her mother initially urged her to hide her Jewishness. Later, in old age, she relented, recognising that testimonies make history, and that the lives of those who perished deserve to be celebrated. The material in the book is compiled from recounted memories of the survivors, unfinished memoirs, letters, photographs, and historical archives.
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19 October, 6:30-8pm
Join us at The Wiener Holocaust Library for a book talk and Q&A by author Julia Boyd on her new work.
Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf – a place where for hundreds of years people lived ordinary lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime… From the author of the bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich, an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler which shines a light on the lives of ordinary people.
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31 October, 6-7pm
Through whose eyes are we seeing the past? When it comes to the history of the Holocaust, we often rely on perpetrator photos. To counter-balance this biased gaze, we need to draw on Jewish photos: photos celebrating Jewish lives before 1933, but also photos documenting lives marred by exclusion and persecution, and photos of Jewish flight, migration, and lives re-built beyond Europe.
This talk by Maiken Umbach, Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham, takes a fresh look at a sample of ‘Jewish’ photos, asks how we can interpret them, and explores ways in which they might reveal aspects of Jewish experiences on which other sources remain silent.
The event forms part of our exhibition series: 'There was a time...': Jewish Family Photographs before 1939.
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As part of our Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership activities we're delighted to announce that the Third Annual Alfred Wiener Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place at Gresham College on the 23rd November.
The lecture will highlight the experiences of Jewish refugees fleeing from antisemitic persecution and from World War II to Portugal. It describes how they were treated, how they attempted to escape Europe, and how they struggled in a “no-man’s land” between a painful past and an unknown future.
About the Speaker:
Professor Marion Kaplan is the Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. Her newest book, published in 2020, is Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal.
She has edited other books on German Jewish history, European women’s history, and German women’s history and has taught German and European history as well as European Jewish history, Jewish women’s history, and German-Jewish history.
Register to attend this event online or in person here.
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This month we received our newly digitised collection relating to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials back from our external digitisation partners.
The collection spans 27 boxes, and was donated to the library by the Nuremberg War Crimes trial authorities shortly after the trials were completed as quid pro quo for the services which the Wiener Library provided to the prosecutors.
The collection comprises authenticated copies and English translations of trial documents which specifically relate to the fate of European Jewry. The collection contains both contemporary documentation (e.g. correspondence, directives and orders between Nazi authorities) and post-war testimony from witnesses.
The entire digitised collection will soon be available to access via the Reading Room.
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Wednesday 4th – Friday 6th January 2023 |
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Booking Now Open - Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution |
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The conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution and who explore its aftermath in Europe and beyond. A variety of methodologies and highlighting work of new and more established scholars, papers and panels will explore issues of survival, rehabilitation, postwar trials and justice, and memory.
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The British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies have launched their Autumn Lecture Series for 2022, starting with a round table discussion on New Directions in Holocaust Literature. See the full schedule of events below...
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Our programme of free educational events is now open for booking for the Autumn Term! Our educational and outreach team offer a variety of tours, workshops and talks to school, university, adult learner and community groups.
To book a school visit or tour, please email the Learning Team or sign up to one of our scheduled events below...
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The Wiener Holocaust Library Blog |
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Why not check out the Library's blog? Read staff articles, past book reviews, guest posts and more.
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The Library's YouTube Channel |
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Did you know that the Library has a YouTube channel? Browse through some of the past events the Library has hosted. Includes virtual events, book talks, curator talks and more.
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Become a member of the Library |
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Demands upon the Library continue to increase as we face rising antisemitism, racism, distortion and denial of the Holocaust and genocide. We need to continue our important work to ensure our Collections are put to the best possible use and to the service of the future.
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Becoming a member is a powerful way you can support us in working towards our wider mission. In return, you can enjoy our exclusive member benefits and know that you are playing a significant role in the future success of the Library.
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