Day I - Wednesday, November 19 2014
18:00 Atina Grossmann (New York/Berlin)
Remapping Death and Survival: Shifting Geographies and Definitions
20:00 Reception
Day II - Thursday, November 20 2014
Opening (09:30-10:00)
Welcome Note by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)
Introduction by Alina Bothe and Markus Nesselrodt
Panel 1 (10:00-11:00) Who is a Survivor? (I) Early Postwar Definitions
Chair: Karen Körber (Berlin)
Thomas Rahe (Bergen-Belsen)
Survival and New Beginnings. Jews and Roma in Bergen-Belsen 1945
Katarzyna Person (Warsaw)
Building a Community of Survivors in the Post-War Jewish Honor Courts
Coffee Break (11:00-11:30)
Panel 2 (11:30-13:00) Semantics of Survival
Chair: Micha Brumlik (Berlin)
Adam Stern (Cambridge)
Survival Before Auschwitz: On Rosenzweig and Christianity
Linda Asquith (Nottingham)
“What did you survive?” An Exploration of the Nature of Being a Survivor and the Concept of a Survivor Hierarchy
Zofia Waślicka (Prague)
The Use of the Term “Survivor” in Poland
Lunch Break (13:00-14:30)
Panel 3 (14:30-16:00) Politics of Survival
Chair: Michael Wildt (Berlin)
Susanna Schrafstetter (Vermont)
Hidden Jews as a Sub-group of German Holocaust Survivors
Antoine Burgard (Lyon/Montréal)
“Child to be Placed with a Family who Will Appreciate his Tragic Past”. Early Understandings of Young Survivors and Future Migrants’ Experiences in Immediate Post-War Europe
Benno Nietzel (Bielefeld)
The Jewish Claims Conference and Reparations for Holocaust Survivors 1951-2000
Coffee Break (16:00-16:30)
Panel 4 (16:30-18:00) On Survival in Literature
Chair: Eva Lezzi (Berlin)
Daniel Pedersen (Stockholm)
Surviving through Poetry – The Case of Nelly Sachs
Andree Michaelis (Frankfurt/Oder)
The Survivor as Writer and as Witness or Why Primo Levi Did not Want to Be Called a “Survivor”
Jan Taubitz (Erfurt/Berlin)
From Anne Frank to Amy Bellette: How Philip Roth Anticipated the Memory Boom and the Role of the Survivor
Day III - Friday, November 21 2014
Keynotes (9:00-11:00) Survival Post Migration
Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)
Anne Rothe (Detroit)
Survivors Made in America: Intersections of Social Darwinism, Holocaust Memory, and Popular Culture
Noam Zadoff (Bloomington)
Bridging the Abyss? Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Coffee Break (11:00-11:30)
Panel 5 (11.30-13:00) Who is a Survivor? (II) – Responses by Historians
Chair: Gertrud Pickhan (Berlin)
Elisabeth Gallas (Jerusalem)
Framing Holocaust Research in New York – The Role of Survivor Historians in the Aftermath of World War II
Julia Menzel (Lüneburg)
Between "Nothing" and "Something". Narratives of Survival in H. G. Adler's Scholarly and Literary Analysis of the Shoah
René Schlott (Potsdam)
The Survivor as a Historian. Raul Hilberg (1926-2007) and the Holocaust Historiography
Lunch Break (13:00-14:30)
Panel 6 (14:30-15:30) Survivors' Movements
Chair: Atina Grossmann (New York/Berlin)
Sebastian Schönemann (Koblenz)
The Name Registry as Testimony: About the Commemorative Function of Survivors‘ Early Tracing Services
Ran Zwigenberg (Penn State)
From the Ashes: Hiroshima, the Holocaust and the Rise of the “Survivor” as a Moral Category
Closing remarks (15:30-16:00)
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)
Closing with Coffee (16:00)