Monday 30/11/2015
09:30 Welcome
- Yvonne Kleinmann (Director, Aleksander Brückner Center, Halle)
- Magdalena Sedlická (Shoah History Department, Jewish Museum in Prague)
09:45 Introducing Remarks
- Stephan Stach (Halle)
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Panel 1
Socialist Shoah Historiography
Chair: Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg)
- Gabriel N. Finder (Charlottesville): Ber Mark‘s Odyssey from Regime Historian to Bona Fide Historian
- Estera Flieger (Łodz): Arthur Eisenbach as the Polish Shoah Historian
- Peter Hallama (Strasbourg): True to the Socialist Ideology? Miroslav Kárný and Czech Shoah Research in the 1970s and 1980s.
12:45 Lunch Break
14:00 Panel 2
Shoah Remembrance in the Jewish & non-Jewish Sphere
Chair: Audrey Kichelewski (Strasbourg)
- Miriam Schulz (New York): Shoah Commemoration within the Yiddish Community. The Case of Sovyetish Heymland
- Katarzyna Person (Warsaw): Postwar Remembrance and the Ringelblum Archive (1946 – 1952)
- Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Warsaw): Editing the Shoah for Polish Masses: A Case Study in the History of Polish (and Jewish) Censorship
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Panel 3
Eye Witnesses & their Role in Socialist Commemoration
Chair: András Lénárt (Budapest)
- Kata Bohus (Göttingen): Anne and Éva. The Janus-Faced Memory of the Holocaust in Communist Hungary
- Hannah Maischein (Munich): Forgetting and Forgotten Eye-Witnesses? – Polish Pictures of the Polish-Jewish Relation during the War
- Jakub Mlynář (Prague): Between Remembrance and Indifference: Reflection of the Shoah during the Post-War Period as Narrated by the Czech Survivors
Tuesday 01/12/2015
09:30 Panel 4
Discourses around the Shoah
Chair: Stephan Stach (Halle)
- Alexander Walther (Jena): Beyond Anti-Fascism: The Shoah, the GDR, and the (non-) Historians
- Tomasz Żukowski (Warsaw): A Model of Culture Transcending Political Divisions: Discourse on the Righteous in the Communist Poland of the 1960s
- Richard S. Esbenshade (Urbana-Champaign): Hungarian Holocaust Memory, 1945 – 1975. The Gap that Wasn’t
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Panel 5
Socialist Shoah Memorials & Jewish Sites of Memory
Chair: Magdalena Sedlická (Prague)
- Imke Hansen (Uppsala): When Auschwitz was not Holocaust yet.
The Jewish Community in Poland, the Memorial of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Emergence of a Symbol
- Yechiel Weizman (Haifa): Remembrance through the Ruins: Jewish Sites in Communist Poland and the Memory of the Shoah
- Gintarė Malinauskaitė (Berlin): Shoah Narratives in Soviet Lithuania: The Case of the 9th Forth Museum in Kaunas
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Panel 6
Representations of the Shoah in Literature and Films
Chair: Michael Zok (Warsaw)
- Michala Lônčíková (Bratislava): Facing the Trauma: Artistic Reflection of the Cohabitation of the Jewish Minority and Slovak Majority during the Shoah
- Aránzazu Calderón Puerta (Warsaw): Attempted Critique of Dominant Models of Shoah Narratives. Polish Cinema of the 1950s and the 1960s
- Anja Tippner (Hamburg): Conflicting Memories, Conflicting Stories. Fictionalizing the Shoah in Rybakov’s Novel Tyazhelyi Pesok (Heavy Sand)
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Concluding Panel
Chair: Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg)
Discutants:
- Audrey Kichelewski (Strasbourg)
- András Lénárt (Budapest)