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| 03. June 2023 08:00 - 15. June 2023 23:00 CfP - TagungQuantifying the Holocaust.Classifying, Counting, Modeling: The Contribution to Holocaust HistoryInternational ConferenceParis, 15–16 May 2024 Submission We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers. Individual submissions will be grouped into appropriate thematic panels by the conference organisers. We welcome researchers at all levels of their PhD or post-doctoral...Weiterlesen... |
| 03. June 2023 08:00 - 30. June 2023 23:59 FellowshipsUkraine Emergency CallIn 2023, in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the City of Vienna again provides rapid and uncomplicated assistance to those Ukrainian researchers and historians who now find themselves war refugees. The VWI is pleased to announce that it will take part and contribute to this impor...Weiterlesen... |
| 03. June 2023 16:00 - 15. July 2023 23:59 Call for ApplicationsEHRI Seminar | What’s new in Austrian Holocaust Studies? Digital Tools & MethodsDate: 16-18 January 2024Location: Vienna, Austria,Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) This seminar is organised in the framework of The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) EHRI-AT In the last decade, Austrian Holocaust research and education has go...Weiterlesen... |
| 05. June 2023 18:30 InterventionRound Table: Holocaust Distortion. Contested Memory in Europe The Holocaust serves as the political, cultural and moral anchor for addressing forms of exclusionary nationalism, antisemitism, racism, and genocide after 1945. Yet, the meaning of the Holocaust in the collective memory of many nation states is changing and has become subject to cont...Weiterlesen... |
| 06. June 2023 13:00 InterventionInternationaler Tag der Archive Anlässlich des Internationalen Tags der Archive öffnet das VWI am 6. Juni seine Tore und lädt Interessierte in seine Räumlichkeiten am Rabensteig 3 ein.Verschiedene Präsentationen und Führungen bieten Einblicke in das Archiv. 13:00-13:45:Sandra B. WeissBildquellen in der Holocaustfor...Weiterlesen... |
| 19. June 2023 18:00 BuchpräsentationAri Joskowicz: Rain of Ash Roma, Jews, and the HolocaustJews and Roma died side by side in the Holocaust, yet the world did not recognize their destruction equally. In the years and decades following the war, the Jewish experience of genocide increasingly occupied the attention of legal experts, scholars, educators, curators, and politicia...Weiterlesen... |
| 21. June 2023 18:30 VWI Visual"Ver Vet Blaybn?",Directors: Emily Felder, Christa P. Whitney, USA, 2021, 56 minutes. OV with English subtitlesAttempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life in Vilna and his survival of the Holocaust. Sutzkever (1913–2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet — described by Th...Weiterlesen... |
| 22. June 2023 18:30 Simon Wiesenthal LectureThomas Chopard: Images and Voices from the 1941 Lviv PogromOf the around one hundred pogroms of the summer of 1941, the Lviv pogrom is probably the most pictured. This talk intends to use the various photographs of this moment as an entry point to analyse anti-Jewish violence in Western Ukraine on the early days of the German invasion of the ...Weiterlesen... |
Now online: Wiesenthal in Linz - A Virtual Exhibition
We are happy to announce the publication of our newest project: Wiesenthal in Linz - A Virtual Exhibition. The online exhibition presents the so-called “Linz documents” - a set of documents that form the basis of the Jewish Documentation Centre's (JDC) archival collection. Like many other Holocaust-related Jewish collections after WWII, the documents are highly dispersed: While the majority of the DP camp files are held by the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, the six folders Simon Wiesenthal brought to Vienna himself are located in the archives of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Other relevant documents can be found in the archives of the Jewish communities in Linz and Vienna, in the DP camp collection of the YIVO Institute in New York, and in the archives of “The Joint”.
Wiesenthal in Linz - A Virtual Exhibition is the result of a three-year project of the VWI funded by the Claims Conference. The goal was to start reconnecting, at least virtually, this closely related collection of documents from Simon Wiesenthal’s time in Linz and to provide a single place to find information on the history and characteristics of the material for researchers.
Gender Equality and Diversity Statement 2023-2025 published
Starting in 2023, the VWI committed to establish a roadmap to promote and implement measures to strengthen gender equality and diversity in its organisational structure, academic and programmatic work as well as in its representation and external communication. This process will build on International, European and national legislation. The full text of the Gender and Equality Statement 2023-2025 can be found here.
Das VWI als Gastinstitution für Holocaustforscher:innen aus der Ukraine
Angesichts des russischen Invasionskrieges in der Ukraine ermöglicht und finanziert die Stadt Wien Rechercheaufenthalte von ukrainischen Wissenschaftler:innen an Wiener Forschungsinstitutionen, eine dieser Institutionen ist das VWI. Das VWI veröffentlichte im April 2022 einen Call für diese “Emergency Fellowships”, diese sollen ukrainischen Wissenschaftler:innen ermöglichen, ihre Recherchen fortzuführen, Archive und Bibliotheken zu besuchen, sich mit den VWI-Fellows und -Mitarbeiter:innen auszutauschen und nicht zuletzt dem Kriegsalltag zu entkommen. In den kommenden Monaten wird das VWI Gastinstitution für die folgenden fünf Forscher:innen sein:
Olena Bezhan, außerordentliche Professorin für fremdsprachige Literatur an der Nationalen I.-I.-Metschnikow-Universität Odessa, wird während ihres Forschungsaufenthaltes Darstellungen des Holocaust in der amerikanischen und ukrainischen Literatur vergleichend analysieren und die darin entworfenen Konzepte von Trauma und Erinnerung kritisch befragen.
Andrij Kudrjatschenko, Professor für Zeitgeschichte, Direktor des Instituts für Weltgeschichte der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Ukraine, wird während seines Aufenthaltes über Unterschiede zwischen westeuropäischem Holocaustdiskurs und ukrainischer Geschichtsbetrachtung arbeiten.
Nadiia Skokova, Historikerin für das moderne Ost- und Mitteleuropa an der Ukrainisch Katholischen Universität in Lwiw, untersucht in ihrem Projekt soziale, wirtschaftliche und politische Facetten jüdischen Lebens in Ostgalizien vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Zwischenkriegszeit.
Viktoria Soloschenko Expertin im Bereich der Provenienzforschung. In ihrem aktuellen Projekt geht sie den Spuren geraubter Kulturgüter während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in der Ukraine nach.
