Events
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) organises academic events in order to provide the broader public as well as an expert audience with regular insights into the most recent research results in the fields of Holocaust, genocide, and racism research. These events, some of which extend beyond academia in the stricter sense, take on different formats ranging from small lectures to the larger Simon Wiesenthal Lectures and from workshops addressing an expert audience to larger international conferences and the Simon Wiesenthal Conferences. This reflects the institute’s wide range of activities.
The range of events further extends to the presentation of selected new publications on the institute’s topics of interest, interventions in the public space, the film series VWI Visuals, and the fellows’ expert colloquia.
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„Pokłosie“ (Aftermath), 2012, Władysław Pasikowski, OmeU | |||
Thursday, 5. December 2013, 18:30 - 21:00 Admiralkino, 1070 Wien, Burggasse 119
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Franciszek Kalina, who left Poland in the eighties for Chicago, returns to his native village after a long absence. There he discovers that his brother Józef has become an outcast, for reasons that only gradually become clear. Józef has been gathering gravestones from an old Jewish cemetery that, since the Jewish population's extinction in World War II, had been used for other purposes. Józef has lined the gravestones up on his lands, and Francziszek is confronted with the outrage of his brother's neighbours. The visit back home turns into a nightmare.
Szewach Weiss, born 1935 in today's Boryslav (Ukraine), politician, author and university teacher; having survived the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel in 1947 where he studied and graduated from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he also holds a degree in Law from the Tel Aviv University. In 1975, he became a professor of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa. Parallel to the scholarly career, Weiss was active in politics. He was a member of the Knesset from 1981 to 1999, during that time he held position of Deputy Speaker and then acting Speaker of the 13th Knesset. He was Israel's Ambassador to Poland from 2001 to 2004. Weiss published several books, including: Yoman parlamentari (1988), Those High-Topped Boots (2012), and People and Places (2013).
The evening is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Vienna.
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