Local Administrations and the Holocaust: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance

Day 1. Wednesday, January 10, 2024

location: FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin

18.00 c.t.-20.00
Opening: President of the Freie Universität Günter M. Ziegler and Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

Peter Romijn (key note): Local Administrations and the Holocaust: An Ongoing Debate

Day 2. Thursday, January 11, 2024

location: FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16–20, 14195 Berlin
https://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/en

10.00–11.30
Panel I: Local Administration and the Holocaust in the Netherlands
chair: Mary Fullbrook
Jeroen Svetman: Searching for ‘The Right Attitude’
Laurien Vastenhout: Collaboration or Cooperation? Dutch Jewish Leaders’ Interplay with Nazi Authorities
Meta Huijsmans: Administrative dilemmas in a Dutch Provincial Capital

11.30–12.00
Coffee break

12.00–13.30
Panel 2: Local Administration and the Ghettos
chair: Jan Grabowski
Justyna Majewska: “When Exchanging Housing between Jews and Aryans, Clerk Needs to Be Helpful”. Polish and Jewish Administration on House Exchange while Creating Warsaw Ghetto
Michał Adam Palacz: Local Administration and the Scapegoating of Jews as Carriers of Typhus in German-Occupied Warsaw
Frank Grelka: Where Work Was Not a Way. Jewish Administration of Forced Labor in the General Government, 1940-1941

13.30–15.00
Lunch

15.00–16.30
Panel 3: Local Administration, City Administrations, and the Jewish Councils
chair: Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Marija Vulesica: The Jewish Community Zagreb and the Ustaša´s Jewish Section: Local Administrational Bodies of the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941—1942
Leonid Rein: The Local Auxiliary Administration and the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Belarusian Territory
Alicja Jarkowska: Gestapo Agents in Occupied Kraków
Andrew Apostolou: Collaboration, Collusion, and Concealment: Greek Local Government and the Murder of the Salonika Jews

16.30–17.00
Coffee break

17.00–18.30
Discussion: Mary Fullbrook, Jan Grabowski, Bert Hoppe and Peter Romijn

19.00
Dinner for the participants

Day 3
Friday, January 12, 2024
location: FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16–20, 14195 Berlin
https://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/en

10.00–11.30
Panel 4: Holocaust and the Mayors
chair: Peter Romijn
Radosav Tucović: Role of the Belgrade Mayor during the Holocaust in Occupied Serbia (1941—1944)
Miranda Brethour: The Role of Village Elders in Anti-Jewish Policy and Liquidation Aktionen in the Lublin District: A Case Study of the Mełgiew, Nałęczów, and Niemce Gminy
Svetlana Suveica: A Mayor of Odessa under the Romanian Occupation: Gherman Pântea and the Jews

11.30–12.00
Coffee break

12.00–13.30
Panel 5: Local Administrations and Deportations
chair: Irina Rebrova
Anna Batzeli: “The Local Population Welcomed the Deportation of the Jews”: Bulgarian Public Administration Involvement in the Deportation of the Jews from Yugoslav Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
András Szécsényi: Collaboration in the Jewish Deportations from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen: The Role of the Local Administration
Vojtěch Kyncl: The Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague

13.30–15.00
Lunch

15.00–16.30
Panel 6: Documents to Study the Local Administrations
chair: Bert Hoppe
Irina Makhalova: Judging Local Administration: Closed Trials of Collaborators in Crimea during and after World War II (1944—1953)
Cornelia Shati-Geissler: Taking Part in “Transports to Extinction.” Local Involvement in Deportations in Western Europe, with Examples from Yad Vashem’s Digital Database of Deportations during the Holocaust