Book Presentations
The VWI provides the opportunity to present various new publications (ranging from relevant professional literature to popular works of scholarship to literature) in a special context. These presentations usually combine a special location chosen for this event with appropriate musical accompaniment, selected to reflect each given publication.
Additionally, the VWI repeatedly presents scholarly projects that are either based directly at the institute itself or are being conducted in co-operation with other institutions. External projects that suit the institute's profile are also presented to the broader public here.
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Gergely Kunt: The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis. The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950), CEU Press, Budapest 2022 | |||
Tuesday, 7. March 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 Bookshop Singer am Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien
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CEU Press, CEU Jewish Studies Program and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invite to the discussion and book launch of ”The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis. The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950)”. Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in a post–World War II orphanage in Budapest. The book tells the story of this children’s republic that sought to heal the wounds of wartime trauma, address prejudice and expose the children to a firsthand experience of democracy.
Discussion Reception to follow
Gergely Kunt is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He is one of the founding members of the European Ego-Documents Archive and Collections Network (EDAC). He was European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies; Core Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University; Weickart Postdoctoral Fellow at Fritz Bauer Institut at University of Frankfurt am Main.
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