Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution. Third international multidisciplinary conference

Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution. Third international multidisciplinary conference

Veranstalter
Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London; David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London; Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London; Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
Veranstaltungsort
Imperial War Museum London
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
07.01.2009 - 09.01.2009
Von
Johannes-Dieter Steinert

Around 100 speakers from all over the world will present and discuss the latest results of their research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These include - but are not limited to - Jews, Gypsies, Slavonic peoples, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, the disabled, the so-called ‘racially impure’, and forced labourers.
Join us in London!

Programm

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

9.30-10.30 Registration and Coffee

10.30-12.00 Opening Session (Cinema)
Welcome
Opening Panel
Paul A. Shapiro, Lisa Yavnai and Joseph White
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington -
Exploring the newly opened ITS archive

12.00-14.00 Lunch Break (Conference Room)

14.00-16.00 PANELS
PANEL 1 (Room 1)
Child survivors’ testimonies
Boaz Cohen (Bar-Ilan University / Israel)
Representing children’s Holocaust: Children’s survivor testimonies published in Fun Lezten Hurban, Munich 1946-1949
Rita Horváth (Bar-Ilan University / Israel)
Analyzing testimonies of Child Survivors: History and methodology
Joanna B. Michlic (Lehigh University / USA)
The ‘Raw Memory of War’: The reading of early post-war testimonies of children

PANEL 2 (Room 2)
DPs in post-war Europe
Peter Bergmann (University of Florida / USA)
From displacement to replacement: Americanizing German historiography
Atina Grossmann (Cooper Union / USA)
Individual reconstruction as collective project: Body, family, nation, and the pursuit of ‘normality’ among Jewish survivors in post-war occupied Germany
Tamar Lewinsky (University of Munich / Germany)
Continuities and discontinuities in Yiddish DP-culture
Silvia Salvatici (University of Teramo / Italy)
Lost homelands and reconstructed homes: Gender and displacement in post-war Germany

PANEL 3 (Room 3)
Holocaust memory in Austria: Forgotten victims and neglected aspects
Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg / Austria)
Ambivalent victimhood: Jehovah’s Witnesses and their coming to terms with persecution in catholic Austria
Alois Nussbaumer (University of Salzburg / Austria)
Forbidden relationships: Forced labourers and ‘German’ women in rural Austria
Maria Ecker (University of Salzburg / Austria)
‘Prisoners of fear’? The perception and recognition of psychological effects of Nazi persecution in Austria

PANEL 4 (Room 4)
Remembrance and memorials
Sara Valentina Di Palma (University of Sienna / Italy)
The Holocaust: Remembrance and memorials
Elizabeth Harrington Lambert (Indiana University-Bloomington / USA)
Contested memory: East German representations of Weimarer Klassik and Gedenkstätte Buchenwald
Marianne Neerland Soleim (Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre / Norway)
Remembrance of Soviet prisoners of war in northern and central Europe

16.00-16.30 Tea Break (Conference Room)

16.30-18.30 PANELS
PANEL 5 (Room 1)
Child survivors
Kerry Bluglass (University of Birmingham / UK)
Evolution and devolution of hidden children groups: A comparison between France and Belgium
Carole Bell Ford (State University of New York / USA)
After the Girls Club: How a small group of child survivors rebuilt their lives in America
Elisabeth Kohlhaas (University of Leipzig / Germany)
Children about the Holocaust: Post-war testimonies from child survivors in Poland 1944-1948
Pamela Shatzkes (London School of Economics / UK)
‘Lost souls’: Efforts to retrieve Jewish war orphans after the Holocaust

PANEL 6 (Room 2)
Reception and resettlement
Elizabeth Anthony (Clark University / USA)
A Jewish nursing home in post-war Vienna: Serving the elderly immediately after the Holocaust
Andreas Braemer (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg / Germany)
‘… the return of a rabbi to Germany is not a self-evident matter’: Remigration of Jewish clericals to West Germany, 1945-1965
Izabela Dahl (Humboldt University, Berlin / Germany)
Collective memory, individual narrative: Polish Holocaust survivors’ memory in Sweden
Malin Thor (Malmö University College / Sweden)
The Swedish Jews and the survivors of 1945: Narratives about and from the Jewish refugee activities and the Jewish survivors in Sweden, 1945–1946

PANEL 7 (Room 3)
DPs in post-war Europe
Ada Schein (Yad Vashem / Israel)
From curse to blessing: Rehabilitation through vocational training in the Jewish DP camps in Germany and Austria
Nancy Hamlin Soukup (Boston College / USA)
‘A difficult art’: The Unitarian Service Committee’s refugee relief operations in post-World War II Europe
Lynne Taylor (University of Waterloo / Canada)
‘Please report only true nationalities’: The classification of DPs in post-WW II Germany and its implications
Tillmann Tegeler (Südost-Institut, Regensburg / Germany)
‘By far the best class of displaced persons’: Imagining the Balts

PANEL 8 (Room 4)
Remembrance and memorials
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs (Jagiellonian University Krakow / Poland)
What do we want to remember? What don’t we want to remember? Coming to terms with collective memory of the Holocaust in post-communist Poland
Christina Kleiser (University of Vienna / Austria)
‘History’ and / or ‘Memory’ – A misleading debate? On the importance of a history ‘after Auschwitz’ for a culture of remembrance in the European context
Jon Reitan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim / Norway)
Norwegian images of the destruction: The Holocaust and historical culture, 1945-2008

19.00-20.00 Reception (Main Atrium)

20.00-22.00 Film: Undzere Kinder (Cinema)
Introduction by Sharon Pucker Rivo (Brandeis University / USA); reminiscences and comments by Shimon Redlich (Ben-Gurion University / Israel)

Thursday, 8 January 2009
10.00-10.30 Coffee (Conference Room)

10.30-12.30 PANELS
PANEL 9 (Room 1)
Undzere Kinder (Our Children): A Yiddish film from Poland in the aftermath of the Holocaust
Chair and introduction: Sharon Pucker Rivo (Brandeis University / USA)
Shimon Redlich (Ben-Gurion University / Israel)
Jews in post-war Łódź, 1945-1950
Gabriel Finder (University of Virginia / USA)
Child survivors and the formation of Jewish collective memory after the Holocaust: The case of Undzere Kinder

PANEL 10 (Room 2)
Conflicting memories after WWII: Global Holocaust memory, European concentration camp memory, memory of Communism
Dirk Rupnow (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna / Austria)
Transforming the Holocaust: Memory and remembrance in a global age
Alexander Prenninger (University of Salzburg / Austria)
European concentration camp memory: The memory of the camps in transnational perspective
Regina Fritz (University of Vienna / Austria)
Competing memories of the Holocaust and of Communism between national narratives and transnational influences
Irina Sherbakova (University of Afanassjev / Russia)
The GULAG in memory: The role of memoirs in the study of Stalinist repression

PANEL 11 (Room 3)
Survivors in Eastern Europe
Anna Lipphardt (University of Konstanz / Germany)
A community on the move: the Holocaust survivors from Vilna between 1944/45 and 1948
Pavel Polian (University of Freiburg / Germany)
The geodemographical impact of the WWII on the post-war population development of the Soviet Union: The international and internal forced migrations and resettlements of Soviet citizens and foreigners in the USSR in 1940s
Svetlana Shklarov (University of Calgary / Canada)
Between worlds: Narratives of Soviet child survivors of the Holocaust: Recent newcomers to Canada
Anika Walke (UC Santa Cruz / USA)
‘It wasn’t that bad in the ghetto, was it?’ Living on in the USSR after the Nazi Genocide

PANEL 12 (Rom 4)
Reception and resettlement
Suzanne L. Bunkers (Minnesota State University / USA)
The fates of Jewish Luxembourgers during and after World War II
Raphaël Spina (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris / France)
Returning home after the forced labour in the Reich: The case of the French of the Compulsory Work Scheme (Service du Travail Obligatoire, STO)
David Weinberg (Wayne State University / USA)
The problem of young Jewish survivors in post-war Europe
Jolande Withuis (Netherlands’ Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam / Netherlands)
The politics of war trauma: A comparative European research project on the psychological consequences of war

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break (Conference Room)

14.00-15.30 PANELS
PANEL 13 (Room 1)
Remembrance and memorials
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester / UK)
The French Mission in search of corpses in Germany, 1945-1969
Nichola Hunt (Oxford Brookes University / UK)
Nameless victims? Nazi human experiments on Russians in World War II: Statistics, stories and stereotypes
Sophie Wagenhofer (Humboldt University Berlin / Germany)
Contested narratives: Debates on the Second World War and Vichy in contemporary Morocco

PANEL 14 (Room 2)
Arts and artists
Mirjam Rajner (Bar-Ilan University / Israel)
Johanna Lutzer: A Viennese artist, Jewish refugee, Tito’s partisan and an immigrant to Palestine
Ulrike Smalley (Imperial War Museum / UK)
Survivor art: Remembering the Holocaust
Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas / USA)
Visions of a revisited past

PANEL 15 (Room 3)
Remembering the Camps: Narratives of Slave Labourers and Camp Survivors
Chair and introduction: Gerhard Botz (University of Vienna / Austria)
Barbara N. Wiesinger (University of Birmingham / UK)
Remembering and representing Communist activism in a post-socialist context: The case of Serbian slave/forced labourers in the Third Reich
Imke Hansen (University of Hamburg / Germany)
Who owns Auschwitz? A spatial perspective on conflicting memories and the instrumentalisation of the Holocaust at Auschwitz

PANEL 16 (Room 4)
Film and photography
Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary / UK)
From atrocity to action: How Soviet cinema founded the Holocaust film
Johannes Hofinger (University of Salzburg / Austria)
Concentration camps and their aftermath in Austrian cinema
Anna Holian (Arizona State University / USA)
Framing the problem of displaced children: Wartime trauma and post-war recovery in ‘The Search’

15.30-16.00 Tea Break (Conference Room)
16.00-18.00 PANELS
PANEL 17 (Room 1)
Fragments of memories: Photos, films and witness testimonies in the new permanent exhibition at the Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen
Chair: Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum / UK)
Karin Theilen (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle / Germany)
Memories in black and white: The use of historical photographs and films in the Bergen-Belsen memorial’s permanent exhibition
Diana Gring (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle / Germany)
Memories in faces and words: The use of video interviews in the Bergen-Belsen memorial’s permanent exhibition
Rainer Schulze (University of Essex / UK)
Opportunities and limitations of witness testimony for documenting the history of concentration and displaced persons camps

PANEL 18 (Room 2)
Testimony and memory
Adam Brown (Deakin University / Australia)
The other side of a slap in the face: ‘Privileged’ Jews and the problem of judgement in Holocaust testimonies
Beth B. Cohen (University of California, Los Angeles / USA)
The myth of silence: Survivors tell a different story
Laura Jockusch (University of Leipzig / Germany)
Working through destruction: The beginnings of Holocaust research from a Jewish perspective in early post-war Europe
Lara Silberklang (University College London / UK)
Jewish displaced people and the reinvention of ‘normal’, as recounted in post-war memoirs and testimony

PANEL 19 (Room 3)
Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
Kurt Düwell (University of Düsseldorf / Germany)
Philipp Rappaport (1879-1955) and his secret protectors: Specific and general issues
Matthew Frank (University of Leeds / UK)
‘The last free German’: Wenzel Jaksch, the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans and post-war exile, 1944-49
Eleonore Lappin (Institute for Jewish History / Austria)
Stella Klein-Löw and Hedda Eppel: Two Jewish returnees from Britain to Austria
David Simon (Royal Holloway / UK)
Forced migration, career choice and development: Holocaust ethnographies

PANEL 20 (Room 4)
Trials and justice
Ladislaus Löb (University of Sussex / UK)
The trial and assassination of Rezső Kasztner
Aleksandra Loewenau (Oxford Brookes University / UK)
Role and merits of The Association of Ex-Political Prisoners of German Prisons and Concentration Camps: Polish survivors in Great Britain
Julia Riddiford (University College London / UK)
‘Nazi hunters’ in post-war Austria
Andrea Strutz (University of Graz / Austria)
Forced labour and compensation measures for Roma and Sinti in Austria: Exemplified by Opferfürsorge-applications in the province of Styria

18.15 Departure by coach from the Imperial War Museum to the
German Embassy (22 Belgrave Square)
Reception

Friday, 9 January 2009
10.00-10.30 Coffee (Conference Room)

10.30-12.30 PANELS
PANEL 21 (Room 1)
Transformative, absent and veridical memory: Narratives of the Holocaust
Sue Grand (New York University / USA)
Burying Mengele: Transformative memory in the second generation
Johanna Bodenstab (University of Kassel / Germany)
Arrival at Auschwitz: Diverging narrative perspectives in the joint testimony of a mother and a daughter
Dori Laub (Yale University / USA)
The evolution of testimony: A personal and societal process

PANEL 22 (Room 2)
Psychological approaches and intergenerational transmission
Diane Garst (University of Texas at Dallas / USA)
Negotiating multiple identities: A case of a German-Jewish immigrant turned American Army veteran
Dieter Nelles and Heinz Sünker (University of Wuppertal)
‘Children of the resistance’ and their relationship to politics after 1945
Yaffa Singer (Clinical Psychologist / Israel)
Holocaust trans-generational transmission: The life affirming story of Bergen-Belsen D.P. camp leaders as conveyed to the second generation
Aure Veyssiere (University of Paris / France)
The homecoming of French resistance fighters deported to Nazi concentration camps: A study on endured difficulties and coping strategies

PANEL 23 (Room 3)
Film and photography
Henriette von Holleuffer (Hamburg / Germany)
The iconography of relief and hope: The liberated, visual documentation and collective memory
Danuta Kądzielawa (University of Warsaw / Poland) and Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas / USA)
The legacy of superior memory of an Auschwitz survivor
Verena Lucia Nägel (Free University of Berlin / Germany)
Potentials and limits of the educational use of video testimonies from Shoah survivors: Experiences with the Visual History Archive at the Freie Universität Berlin
Stefan Schröder (Stadtarchiv Greven / Germany)
From illustrations to sources: A survey on photographs of and about displaced persons

PANEL 24 (Room 4)
Survivors in Eastern Europe
Michael Fleming (Academy of Humanities and Economics, Łodz / Poland)
Minorities, violence and the establishment of communist rule in Poland
Alice Freifeld (University of Florida / USA)
Jews negotiating Hungary’s borders, 1945-48
Alastair Noble (Foreign and Commonwealth Office / UK)
Journey into a desert: British perceptions of Poland’s recovered western territories, 1945-1948
Anna Rosmus (Passau / Germany)
‘Certain Jewish shipments’

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break (Conference Room)

14.00-16.00 PANELS
PANEL 25 (Room 1)
Testimony and memory
Kinga Frojimovics (Yad Vashem / Israel)
Testimonies of former forced labourers given in People’s Court Trials in the immediate aftermath of WW II in Hungary as historical sources documenting the Holocaust in the eastern territories
Mary Fulbrook (University College London / UK)
On the complexity of ‘collective memories’: The case of Będzin and the class of 1933
Cord Pagenstecher (Free University of Berlin / Germany)
Remembering forced labour. A digital interview archive and the future role of testimonies in education and memory
Christoph Thonfeld (University of Trier / Germany)
Memories of National Socialist forced labour: Eastern and western Europe, Germany and Israel in comparison

PANEL 26 (Room 2)
Trials and justice
Michael S. Bryant (Bryant University / USA) and Wolfgang Form (University of Marburg / Germany)
Victim groups in US and British war crimes trials: Transitional justice in process
Stephan Lehnstaedt (Institute of Contemporary History, Munich / Germany)
Once again trapped by German bureaucracy: Executing the ‘Gesetz zur Zahlbarmachung von Renten aus Beschäftigungen in einem Ghetto’
Ilaria Pavan (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa / Italy)
The restoration of Jewish rights in post-war Western Europe and United States. The legislations compared, 1944-1964
Jeff Porter (Birkbeck College / UK)
Allied discord over a clear moral imperative: Restitution, German Jews dispossessed by the Nazis and the response of the powers occupying Germany, 1945-1949

PANEL 27 (Room 3)
Women survivors and gender issues
Jessica Anderson Hughes (Rutgers University / USA)
Forced prostitution: Sexual labour in the concentration camp brothels
Olga M. Cooke (Texas A&M University / USA)
Russian women writers displaced by World War II: Evgeniia Dimer, Tatiana Fesenko and Irina Saburova
Robin E. Judd (Ohio State University / USA)
Love at the zero hour: European war brides, GI husbands, and reconstruction strategies, 1945-1950
Elizabeth A.L. Vlossak (Brock University / Canada)
Malgré-nous and Malgré-elles: Gender and the memory of Nazi persecution in Alsace

PANEL 28 (Room 4)
Remembrance and memorials
Paola Bertilotti (Sciences-Po Paris / France)
A silent memory? Jewish deportation and genocide in Post-War Italy, 1945-1965
Elena Mazzini (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa / Italy)
The Shoah memory in the Italian Jewish press, 1945-1960
Adrian Wójcik, Michał Bilewicz, Maria Lewicka (University of Warsaw / Poland)
Living on the ashes: Collective representations of the Polish-Jewish history among people living in the former Warsaw Ghetto area

16.00-17.00 Tea & Closing Session (Conference Room)

Kontakt

Johannes-Dieter Steinert

University of Wolverhampton

j.d.steinert@wlv.ac.uk

http://www.iwm.org.uk/BCFL2009