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Beyond Camps
and Forced Labour
Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 January 2023
Programme
Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Seventh International Multidisciplinary Conference
Hosted by
Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
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2Beyond Camps and Forced Labour
Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Seventh International Multidisciplinary Conference, London
Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 January 2023
This conference, postponed from 2021, follows six successful conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015
and at Birkbeck, University of London and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018. It builds on areas previously investigated, and also opens up new fields of
academic enquiry.
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. These groups of survivors include – but are not limited to – Jews, Roma and Sinti, Slavonic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called ‘racially impure’, and forced labourers.
For the purpose of the conference, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial,
political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War. Using 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.
Tuesday 3 January 2023, Pre-Conference Event
Imperial War Museum London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ
17.00 – 18.30 Viewing of the IWM’s award-winning Holocaust Galleries, opened in 2021
18.30 – 19.00 Welcome: Jon Card, Deputy Director-General, IWM, and Rüdiger Bohn, Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy in London
Talk: ‘Re-presenting the Holocaust at the IWM‘, James Bulgin, Head of Public History, IWM, followed by Q&A
19.00 – 20.30 Reception on the IWM’s Roof Terrace, hosted by the Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy in London, Rüdiger Bohn
3Wednesday 4 January 2023
09.00 – 09.30 Registration Birkbeck, University of London, Room G13, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
09.30 – 11.30 Plenary Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Main Lecture Theatre
Welcome David Feldman, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London, UK
Toby Simpson, The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
Keynote lecture Emma Kuby, Northern Illinois University, USA
The Expert Witnesses: Nazi camp survivors as activists in the Cold War West
Chair: Christine Schmidt, The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
11.30 – 13.00 Lunch Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Terrace 5 Restaurant, Fifth Floor
13.00 – 15.00 Panels
Panel 1 Mary Fraser Kirsh, College of William & Mary, USA
“Well on the way to normality”: rehabilitation, mental health, and the goal of “normality” after the Shoah
Relief and rehabilitation Vojtěch Kyncl, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
War consequences on human health
Chair: Suzanne Bardgett,
Imperial War Museum Silke von der Emde, Vassar College, USA
Institute, UK Dis/abling affect: building community out of trauma at the International Tracing Service
Room 1
Panel 2 Julie Dawson, University of Vienna, Austria
“We are starving and cannot bear the hunger any longer…”: marginalization and impoverishment of survivors in early
New beginnings postwar Romania
Kamil Kijek, University of Wrocław, Poland
Chair: Dan Stone,
Beyond teleology of Shearit ha Pleta: Holocaust survivors, Soviet Union returnees and the Jewish community of Polish Lower
Holocaust Research Institute,
Silesia, 1945–1950
Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK Katja Seybold, Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany
“A Victim of Landsmanshaftn”: Landsmanshaftn in the Jewish Displaced Persons Camp Bergen-Belsen and their meaning for
Room 2 the survivors
4Panel 3 Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College and Shaanan College, Israel
Israeli Holocaust memory and the Cold War
Remembrance Victoria A. Fernandez, City University of New York, USA
The politics of remembering: Polish communism and historical revisionism at the State Museum of Auschwitz Birkenau,
Chair: Dieter Steinert,
1947–1989
University of Wolverhampton,
UK Sarah Grandke, The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany
Moving memories – memories on the move? Remembrance, initiatives and Christian Displaced Persons in Flossenbürg, 1946/47
Cristina Stoica, Western University, Canada
Room 3 The “Forgotten Holocaust”: remembrance and commemoration of Roma persecution in Romania
Panel 4 Waitman Wade Beorn, Northumbria University, UK
Drawing on experience: Zeev Porath’s drawings of the Janowska Camp
Visual representations Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan, University of Haifa, Israel
Sexual exploitation of children during the Holocaust and its representations in Israeli film and television
Chair: David Feldman,
Birkbeck Institute for the Study Gerald Lamprecht, University of Graz, Austria
of Antisemitism, University of Digital memory mapping: on the way to a digital pedagogy of remembrance
London, UK
Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK
Rethinking the modernity thesis: Zygmunt Bauman and Claude Lanzmann
Room 4
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Room G13
Birkbeck, 30 Russell Square, Panel Room 4
15.30 – 17.00 Panels
Panel 5 Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University, UK
Becoming survivors: the genesis of the term ‘child Holocaust survivor’
Child survivors (I) Helga Embacher, University of Salzburg, Austria
”Alone in this world”: young unaccompanied survivors constructing (new) identities after the Shoah
Chair: Dan Stone,
Holocaust Research Institute, Anke Kalkbrenner, Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg
Royal Holloway, University of Shadow stories of adoption: aspects of transnational adoption of Jewish child survivors
London, UK
Room 1
5Panel 6 Paula Chan, Georgetown University, USA
Lost in translation: French witnesses of Nazi crimes in Soviet Ukraine
Non-Jewish survivors (I) Thomas Irmer, Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany
POW in Berlin – Stalag IIID and forced labour during World War II
Chair: Katja Seybold,
Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Amine Laggoune, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)/CERCEC, France
Germany Soviet survivors of Nazi persecutions in France after the liberation: between resisting repatriation to build a new life or going
back to the motherland (1944–1947)
Room 2
Panel 7 Alain Blum, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)/CERCEC, France:
Emilia Koustova, Strasbourg University, France
Jewish survivors: Jewish trajectories in postwar USSR: a study from the Soviet police archives
Soviet paths Thomas Chopard, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Polish Jews surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Union: combining microhistorical and quantitative approaches
Chair: Chris Gilley,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Anna P. Ronell, Independent Scholar, USA
UK Jewish survivors from the Soviet Union: who knew what and when?
Room 3
Panel 8 Viorel Achim, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
The Jewish workshops in Transnistria in documents from the Jewish Center and survivors’ testimonies
Testimonies (I) Éva Kovács, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Austria
Surviving Strasshof: history of ego-documents of Hungarian slave labour in Vienna
Chair: Christine Schmidt,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Therkel Straede, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
UK A death camp known to few: the Judenlager Kisselewitschi, Bobruisk, Belarus, 1942–1943
Room 4
Panel 9 Malin Thor Tureby, Linköping University, Sweden
‘Hearing’ Holocaust survivors: on collections and research with Holocaust survivors in Sweden, 1945–2020
Beyond survivor- Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Linköping University, Sweden
witnessing – Redefining Historicizing women survivors in Sweden: agency and action after the destruction
a field
Kristin Wagrell, Linköping University, Sweden
Jews, gender and the ideal witness: constructing the Holocaust survivor in Sweden, 1943–1966
Chair: Dieter Steinert,
University of Wolverhampton,
UK
Room 5
619.30 – 20.15 Concert Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Main Lecture Theatre
Yiddish Glory: the lost songs of World War II This lecture-concert brings back to life Yiddish songs created in Ukraine and other parts of the Soviet
Union during World War II.
Performed in Yiddish by Grammy-nominated singer Psoy Korolenko, with narration by Anna Shternshis,
University of Toronto.
Thursday 5 January 2023
09.30 – 11.30 Panels
Panel 10 Elizabeth Anthony, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, USA
Protecting the “Rückstellungsbetroffenen”: experiences of the retention of Jews’ former property in
Reassembling fractured lives: tangible and postwar Austria
intangible elements of reconstruction Kierra Crago-Schneider, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, USA
Seeking survivors: postwar efforts to reunite with family after liberation
Chair: Christine Schmidt,
Alexandra Kramen, Clark University, USA
The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK
In the face of injustice: Jewish Holocaust survivors’ narratives of revenge in postwar Europe
Room 1
Panel 11 Eliyana R. Adler, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Representing survival: the Holocaust’s discursive eclipse of Polish Jewish refugees in the USSR
Jewish victims, self-representation, and Sara Halpern, Cardiff University, UK
the politics of victimhood/survival in The myth of silence among Shanghai’s central European Jewish refugees
global contexts
Yael Siman, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
Between the personal, local and global: rendering public Holocaust testimony in Mexico, 1950s–2000s
Chair: Suzanne Bardgett,
Imperial War Museum Institute, UK
Room 2
7Panel 12 René Bienert, KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg, Germany
Survivors helping survivors: Simon Wiesenthal, his early search for Nazi criminals and the survivors’ rehabilitation
Trials and justice (I) Rachel Blumenthal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Advocate for reparations for Jewish survivors of National Socialism
Chair: Toby Simpson,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Michael Fleming, The Polish University Abroad, London, UK
UK The Polish Government in exile, the United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Holocaust
Philip Ginnings, Independent Scholar, UK
Room 3 Reactions to the Belsen Trial in 1945
Panel 13 Ildikó Barna, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
Gendered analysis of Hungarian Jewish displaced persons in Italian DP camps
Family and Karl Krotke-Crandall, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
gender studies Memory uninterrupted: a case study on collective memory transmission within Jewish survivors and their kin living in the
former Soviet Union
Chair: Elise Bath,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Martina Staats, Memorial at the Wolfenbüttel Prison, Germany
UK Broken silence: how family members dealt with the consequences of Nazi court verdicts
Room 4
Panel 14 Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College, USA
Shattered homes: Jews in hiding in eastern Europe during the Shoah
Internment and Sara Ann Sewell, Virginia Wesleyan University, USA
displacement in the Train sounds: sonic experiences in deportation trains
memory of Holocaust
Aleksandra Szczepan, Jagiellonian University, Poland
survivors Cartographies of witnessing: maps as a form of Holocaust testimony
Chair: Eliana Hadijsavvas, Hannah Wilson, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Birkbeck, University of London, From a Polish shtetl to the shores of California: the spatial and material memory of Sobibór survivor Thomas ‘Toivi’ Blatt
UK
Room 5
11.30 – 13.00 Lunch Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Terrace 5 Restaurant, Fifth Floor
813.00 – 15.00 Panels
Panel 15 Jakub Gałęziowski, University of Warsaw, Poland
Children born to Polish female forced labourers and DPs and fathered by foreigners as a separate category of Children Born of
Child survivors (II) War (CBOW)
Rita Horvath, Independent Scholar, Austria / Israel
Chair: David Feldman, Investigating the concepts/terminology through which Hungarian Jewish child forced labourers related and understood their
Birkbeck Institute for the Study experiences during the Holocaust
of Antisemitism, University of
London, UK Josefine Wagner, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Education for inferiority: race hygienic continuities in special needs education after 1945
Room 1
Panel 16 Naida-Michal Brandl, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Navigating repatriation and restitution: Jewish survivors in Croatia in the immediate postwar period
Compensation and Juliet D. Golden, Syracuse University Abroad, USA
restitution Under the blue sun: the identity games, property expropriations and after-lives of H. Mikolas(ch)ek across central Europe’s
borderlands
Chair: Dan Stone,
Holocaust Research Institute, Dóra Pataricza, Szeged Jewish Community, Hungary
Royal Holloway, University of The restitution of looted everyday objects in Szeged, Hungary
London, UK Paul Weindling, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Compensating survivors of Auschwitz Block 10
Room 2
Panel 17 Silvia Goldbaum, Independent Scholar, France
Written in Sweden in April 1945: the earliest testimonies from Danish survivors of Ghetto Theresienstadt
Testimonies (II) Sharon Kangisser Cohen, Yad Vashem, Israel
“The cold shower of a new life”: Child Survivor Yehuda Bacon and his early postwar writing
Chair: Dieter Steinert,
University of Wolverhampton, Kateřina Králová, Charles University, Czech Republic
UK Matalon family secrets: silenced memories and network dynamics in Holocaust testimonies
Ellis Spicer, University of Kent, UK
Room 3 ‘One sorrow or another’: narratives of hierarchical survivorship and suffering in Holocaust survivor associations
9Panel 18 Joanna Beata Michlic, University College London, UK / Lund University, Sweden
Stigmatization of genuine rescuers of Polish Jews within Polish society: early postwar recollections
Trials and justice (II) Darcy C. Benson, Ohio State University, USA
Remembering resisters: the nuanced identity of resisters in France and the evolution of monuments in their honour
Chair: Toby Simpson,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Philipp Dinkelaker, Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin, Germany
UK “...hat Beihilfe bei der Verfolgung der Juden in der Hitlerzeit geleistet.” German authorities and Jewish honour courts creating
“Jewish collaborators” in Cold War Berlin
Paula Oppermann, University of Glasgow, UK
Room 4 Perpetrator and victim? The case of Latvian fascist leader Gustavs Celmiņš, 1932–1968
Panel 19 John V. Jensen, Vardemuseerne Varde, Denmark
Turning of the tables: German emigrants as influencers
Emigrés from National Andrea Strutz, LBI for Research on the Consequences of War and University of Graz, Austria
Socialist Germany Building a new life elsewhere: integration experiences of Austrian Jewish refugees and contributions to the post-45
Canadian society
Chair: Christine Schmidt,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Anne Uhrlandt, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
UK A survivor of a double exile: Dr. Max Stern
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Room 5 Bringing the past to life: epistolary conversations of Jewish-Austrian classmates (1938–1944)
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Room G13
Birkbeck, 30 Russell Square, Panel Room 4
15.30 – 17.00 Panels
Panel 20 Lauren Cantillon, King’s College London, UK
Embodied remembering and textures of emotion(s): women’s recollections of sexual violence during the Holocaust
Women’s experiences Beth B. Cohen, California State University, USA
and recollections Ruptured grief: Shoah rituals of bereavement and mourning
Chair: Elise Bath, Alexandra M Szabo, Brandeis University, USA
The Wiener Holocaust Library, The trembling Holocaust in women after survival: a look at miscarriages
UK
Room 1
10Panel 21 Andreas Kranebitter, Mauthausen Memorial Research Center Vienna, Austria
Of good-for-nothings and no-gos: family memories of stigmatized Nazi victims
Non-Jewish survivors (II) Robert Obermair, University of Salzburg, Austria
Repressed, dismissed, forgotten: coming to terms with the past of former satellite camps in Austria based on the example of the
Chair: Helga Embacher,
Vöcklabruck camp and its Spanish inmates
University of Salzburg, Austria
Riki Van Boeschoten and Antonis Antoniou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Room 2 Greek forced labourers in the Third Reich: an untold story
Panel 22 Iason Chandrinos, University of Regensburg, Germany
Unwanted returnees and the reestablishment of political order in early postwar Greece, 1945–1947
Trials and justice (III) Franziska Exeler, Free University Berlin, Germany / University of Cambridge, UK
Ghosts of War: personal responses to the aftermath of Nazi occupation in Soviet Belorussia
Chair: Toby Simpson,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Lukasz Krzyzanowski, University of Warsaw, Poland / University of Ottawa, Canada
UK Village heads on trial: village communities and early postwar trials in provincial Poland
Room 3
Panel 23 Maya Camargo-Vemuri, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Finding autonomy in victimhood: sex and sexuality for survival in the Holocaust
Survival and survivors (I) Lauren Fedewa, University of Toronto, Canada
‘Always one step away from death, and always afraid’: Jewish women who passed as Polish-Christian forced labourers
Chair: Yvonne Kozlovsky
in Germany
Golan, University of Haifa,
Israel Andrea Feldman, University of Zagreb, Croatia
The way out of Hades: Vera Erlich and the question of repatriation of the Yugoslav Jews in the aftermath of WWII
Room 4
17.00 – 18.00 Afternoon Tea Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Room G13
EHRI Meet & Greet: Come and learn more about the work of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
and the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK)
18.00 – 19.30 Plenary Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Main Lecture Theatre
Keynote public lecture Stephanie Schüler-Springorum, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Antisemitism, Racism, National Socialism, and what does this history mean for public memory today?
Chair: Dan Stone, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
19.30 – 21.00 Reception The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP
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09.30 – 11.30 Panels
Panel 24 Katherine Aron-Beller, Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Tel Aviv University, Israel
Between perception and memory: 1945 and 1995
Testimonies (III) Wolf Gruner, University of Southern California, USA
Individual Jewish resistance in Nazi Germany: ‘Why was it forgotten after 1945?’
Chair: Barbara Warnock,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Denisa Nešťáková, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
UK Two stories, one woman: a saviour and a kapo of Auschwitz
Amy Smith, Yale University, USA
When is testimony “testimony”? Exploring conversations between Jewish survivors about the Holocaust in the immediate
Room 1 aftermath of the war
Panel 25 Robin Judd, Ohio State University, USA
‘We are narishe yunge’: dating Allied soldiers in the aftermath of genocide
Expanding histories of Patricia Kollander, Florida Atlantic University, USA
liberation: encounters Recent emigres from Germany and Austria in the U.S. Army and their encounters with victims and perpetrators of Nazi terror
between liberators and
Richard Menkis, University of British Columbia, Canada
survivors of Nazi terror Old/new landscapes: Canadian soldiers and the reconsecration of synagogues in the Netherlands
Chair: Ian Rich, Veerle Vanden Daelen, University of Antwerp, Belgium
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Jewish survivors in immediate postwar Antwerp and their encounters with Jewish Allied soldiers,
UK September 1944–1945
Room 2
Panel 26 Giurgea Florinela, George Emil Palade University, Târgu Mureş, Romania
Deportation of Jewish and Roma in Transnistria during World War II: some differences
Trials and justice (IV) Monika Kokalj Kočevar, National Museum of Contemporary History, Slovenia
The Dachau trials in Slovenia
Chair: Toby Simpson,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Gintarė Malinauskaitė, German Historical Institute / Branch Office Vilnius, Lithuania
UK Preparing the people for Soviet justice: Holocaust and the 1964 war crimes trial in Soviet Lithuania
Verena Meier, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Room 3 Transitional justice of Nazi Crimes against Sinti and Roma in the Soviet Zone of occupation and GDR
12Panel 27 Merle Bieber, Institute of Jewish History in Austria in St. Pölten, Austria
“My dirndl is over the ocean”: the importance of “Tracht” for Austrian Jewish emigrants or survivors of the Shoah and
”Refugee heißt nebbich“: émigrés, their descendants
Jewish DPs, survivors and Christoph Lind, Institute for Jewish History, Austria
their belongings People and things: The Jewish DP camp in the former Rothschild-Hospital of Vienna
Philipp Mettauer, Institute for Jewish History, Austria
Chair: Suzanne Bardgett, Materialized memory: “Aryanization” and the meaning of things in exile
Imperial War Museum Institute, UK
Gerhard Milchram, Wien Museum, Austria
Room 4 Escape and immaterialized belongings: Robert Haas’ photographs of apartments of the exiled, 1938
Panel 28 Nicole Freeman, Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, USA
“Tanned and taller, heavier and healthier”: Jewish summer colonies in Poland after the Holocaust, 1945–1949
Child survivors (III) Abby Gondek, USA
The Holocaust, Jewish refugees and psychiatric care for black youth in New York
Chair: David Feldman,
Birkbeck Institute for the Study of
Antisemitism, University of London, UK
Room 5
11.30 – 13.00 Lunch Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Terrace 5 Restaurant, Fifth Floor
13.00 – 15.00 Panels
Panel 29 Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge, UK
‘You are requested to ascertain the nationality of Jews residing in Guernsey’: an analysis of refugees to the Channel
The internment of Jewish refugees Island of Guernsey, 1933–1940
across the British world Eliana Hadjisavvas, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Exile in East Africa: European refugees and political detainees – legacies of the Holocaust in Kenya, 1940–1950
Chair: David Feldman,
Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Alan Morgenroth, Independent Scholar, UK
Antisemitism, University of London, UK The deportations of civilian internees from the UK to Canada and Australia in June and July 1940: who was deported
and what was the effect on Jewish refugee trajectories?
Rachel Pistol, King’s College London / EHRI, UK
Room 1 Second World War internment of Jewish refugees in Great Britain: archival challenges and opportunities
13Panel 30 Jan Burzlaff, Harvard University, USA
Victimhood and survival in Poland: the case of Bełżec
Survival and survivors (II) Chad S. A. Gibbs, College of Charleston, USA
The last survivor of Treblinka: exploring place-based definitions of Holocaust survivorship
Chair: Christine Schmidt,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Roni Mikel-Arieli, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
UK Ungrateful survivors or unfortunate victims? The Yishuv perception of the Jews detained at the Baeu Bassin Camp in Mauritius
Michał Studniarek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Room 2 After the war: life experience of the Robinsons of Warsaw
Panel 31 Peter Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK
Knowledge, testimony, translation: interpreters at the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
Trials and justice (V) Jens-Christian Hansen, Vendsyssel Historiske Museum, Denmark
Bringing justice to the subcamps: former prisoners as key witnesses in postwar trials
Chair: Toby Simpson,
The Wiener Holocaust Library, Nadine Jenke, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
UK On the relationship between persecution and prosecution: former camp inmates and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany
Room 3
Panel 32 Gabriel Finder, University of Virginia, USA (retired)
“I’m allowed, I’m a Jew”: Oliver Polak and Jewish humour in contemporary Germany after the Holocaust
From generation to Avinoam Patt, University of Connecticut, USA
generation: children Laughing off the trauma of Jewish history: HaYehudim Ba’im (The Jews are coming)
and grandchildren of
Liat Steir-Livny, Sapir College / Open University, Israel
Holocaust survivors “The mufti made me do it”: humorous internet memes by the “second and third generations”
and Holocaust-inflected
humour
Chair: Dan Stone,
Holocaust Research Institute,
Royal Holloway, University of
London, UK
Room 4
14Panel 33 Lúcia Bentes, Independent Scholar, Portugal
Spaces of colours and liberty in the autobiographies by Theodor Wonja Michael (1925–2019) and Hans Jürgen Massaquoi
Literary representations (1926–2013)
Simo Muir, University College London, UK; Riikka Tuori, University of Helsinki, Finland
Chair: Barbara Warnock,
“In the lands of slaughter”: a Finnish response to the Holocaust
The Wiener Holocaust Library,
UK Traci S. O’Brien, Auburn University, USA
What is to be remembered? Writing literature in the aftermath of the Shoah
Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto, Canada
Room 5 Do not forget that we existed and how we died: Soviet Yiddish songs documenting the Holocaust in Ukraine
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Room G13
15.30 – 16.00 Plenary Birkbeck, Torrington Square, Main Lecture Theatre
Closing remarks Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum Institute, UK
Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour:
Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Organised by Beyond Camps and Forced Labour:
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum Institute, UK Proceedings of the Sixth International
David Feldman, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London Conference, edited by Suzanne
Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck, University of London Bardgett, Christine Schmidt and
Christine Schmidt, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London Dan Stone, was published in 2020
Toby Simpson, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (Palgrave Macmillan). The volume
Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton highlights new, transnational
Dan Stone, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London approaches and findings based on
underused archives and on historical
actors often on the periphery of
English-language historiography.
It provides a snapshot of the vibrant
and varied state of research on the
aftermath of the Holocaust.
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