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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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+++ CANCELLED +++ Andrew Wisely: The Deception of SS-Physician Franz Lucas. Making Sense of His Defense Narrative Between 1955 and 1980 | |||
Tuesday, 14. April 2020, 15:00 - 17:00 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, Research Lounge, 3rd Floor
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VWI invites the Medical University of Vienna.
Commented by Herwig Czech Andrew Wisely is a Research Fellow at VWI and an Associate Professor of German at Baylor University: he is currently completing a book titled Between Auschwitz and Frankfurt: The Deceptions and Exceptions of SS Dr. Franz Lucas (1911-1994). Articles include War Against ‘Internal Enemies’: Dr. Franz Lucas’s Sterilization of Sinti and Roma in Ravensbrück Men’s Camp in January 1945 (Central European History 2019) and Confession that Isn’t: The Fear Claims of Dr. Franz Lucas Between Accusation and Acquittal in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-65) (Holocaust Studies 2020). The essay Renewed Trauma: Abraham de la Penha’s Testimony against Dr. Franz Lucas in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, will appear in Recognizing the Past in the Present: New Studies on Medicine Before, During, and After the Holocaust (New York 2020). Herwig Czech is a postdoctoral researcher in the history of medicine at the Medical University of Vienna (Josephinum/Department of Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine) and co-director of the research project Brain Research at Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Crimes (funded since 2017 by the Max Planck Society). He has numerous publications on medicine and biopolitics under National Socialism, more recently a paper on the pediatrician Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and „race hygiene“ in Nazi-era Vienna (Molecular Autism 2018). Photo: The accused Franz Lucas (in the middle) on Dezember 14, 1964 on the ramp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest Friday, 10 April, 12.00 am and bring your ID. Click here to download the invitation as a PDF file. In cooperation with: |
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