Sunday, 27 November 2022

18:00–18:15 – Opening remarks

18:15–19:30 – Keynote lecture
Dieter Pohl – "Aktion Reinhardt": Research in the 21st century.

Monday, 28 November 2022

09:00–10:30 – Panel 1: Between the Reich and the General Government. (Chair: Michał Trębacz)

Aleksandra Namysło – "All elements that cannot be Germanized must be absolutely removed...". The situation of the Jews in the General Government and in the territories incorporated into the Third Reich on the eve of the Operation "Reinhardt."

Hannah Riedler – "They lived there before": Jews deported from the Incorporated Areas to the General Government during Operation "Reinhardt."

Andrea Löw – German speaking Jews deported to the Lublin District: Expectations and Experiences.

10:30–10:50 – Coffee break

10:50–12:20 – Panel 2: Deportations (Chair: Dariusz Libionka)

Anna Wylegała – Operation "Reinhardt" in the countryside of District Galicia: towards the new sources and new methodological approaches.

Agnieszka Wierzcholska – "Street-corner" – Genocide. The "Resettlement Action" in one Polish Town and the role of the Baudienst.

Marta Marzańska-Mishani – Deportations of Jews from villages in the Biłgoraj and Zamość counties: Presenting Yad Vashem's digital research project and database "Transports to Extinction."

12:20–12:40 – Coffee break

12:40–13:40 – Panel 3: Perpetrators (Chair: Michael Fleming)

Sara Berger – The German perpetrators of the "Aktion Reinhardt" death camps: From "Euthanasia" to the Holocaust.

Ingo Loose – The role of the Kulmhof extermination camp for the Holocaust in occupied Poland, 1941–1945.

13:40–15:00 – Lunch break

15:00–16:30 – Panel 4: Forced labour camps (Chair: Natalia Aleksiun)

Waitman Beorn – The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Galicia.

Wojciech Lenarczyk – Old Airfield Camp in Lublin, and its role and functions in the Operation "Reinhardt."

Martin Winter – Company Killers: HASAG staff and the "Werkschutz" as non-governmental perpetrators of the Holocaust.

16:30–17:00 – Coffee break

17:00–18:30 – Panel 5: Visual documentation (Chair: Agnieszka Haska)

Andreas Kahrs – Making the invisible visible: Perpetrator pictures from Sobibor and survivors testimonies.

Iwona Kurz – Primary images: Visual evidence of Operation "Reinhardt."

Tomasz Butkiewicz – Operation "Reinhardt": The last days of the Jewish enclave of Bialystok in the iconography of German soldiers in 1942–1943.

19:00 – Dinner for panelists and invited guests

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

09:00–10:30 – Panel 6: Local administrations and the Holocaust (Chair: Andrea Löw)

Miranda Brethour – The ‘Jewish question’ and the village united: Sołtysi in the aftermath of Operation "Reinhardt" in the Lublin District.

John-Paul Himka – The role of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in the liquidation of the Jewish population of Distrikt Galizien.

Katarzyna Person – Jewish Councils and the Jewish Ghetto Police and the implementation of Operation "Reinhardt."

10:30–10:50 – Coffee break

10:50–12:20 – Panel 7: Bystanders (Chair: Krzysztof Persak)

Omer Bartov – Local genocide and the question of bystanders.

Dariusz Libionka – The extermination of Jews in the light of the diary of the administrator of Lublin diocese priest Józef Kruszyński.

Jacek Tebinka, Anna Zapalec – SOE’s activity in occupied Poland and the extermination of Jews during the Operation "Reinhardt."

12:20–12:40 – Coffee break

12:40–13:40 – Panel 8: Around Operation "Reinhardt" (Chair: Suzanne Brown-Fleming)

Klemen Kocjančič – Beyond and after Poland: Operation "Reinhardt" and Sonderaktion 1005 in Italian, Slovenian, and Croatian territory

Michael Fleming – International jurists, the Polish War Crimes Office and the destruction of Polish Jews.

13:40–15:00 – Lunch break

15:00–16:30 – Panel 9: Jewish survival strategies (Chair: Barbara Engelking)

Natalia Aleksiun – Circumscribed agency: Jews hiding in Eastern Galicia during the Holocaust.

Agnieszka Haska – "Happy citizens of foreign countries": Foreign citizenship as a method of survival.

Antoni Sułek – Refugees from a Jewish town in the villages of the Lublin District of the General Government before Operation "Reinhardt."

16:30–17:00 – Coffee break

17:00–18:30 – Panel 10: Microhistories (Chair: Omer Bartov)

Bożena Iwanowska, Peter Lawson – Massacres of Jews in seven small villages near Kletsk, in German-occupied Poland during the years 1941–1942.

Johannes Steinert – Jewish child slave labourers in the camps of Operation "Reinhardt."

Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin – Spreading "impossible" news: The role of couriers in raising the awareness of mass murder and establishing Jewish resistance movements.

18:30 – End of Conference