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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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Violeta Davoliūtė: The Holocaust Perpetrator in Local Memory. Case Studies from Lithuania in European Perspective
   

Wednesday, 11. January 2023, 16:00 - 18:00

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, 1st floor, Sitzungssaal

 

VWI goes to the Institute of Culture Studies and Theater History (ÖAW/IKT)

IlluThe outbreak of communal violence against Jews catalysed by the German invasion of the USSR continues to raise controversy. Research on the testimonies of Jewish survivors and previously inaccessible Soviet archives have increased our understanding, but the perspective of non-Jewish eyewitnesses on the violence is less well known. This project surveys under-researched collections of audio-visual testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to genocide in the provincial towns and villages of Lithuania. They diverge from mainstream narratives of the Second World War in their concern with local context, agency and individual accountability. While the memory of the Holocaust has been externalised under prior memory regimes, these testimonies may serve as an important resource for historical understanding and reckoning.

Commented by Ljiljana Radonić

Violeta Davoliūtė, Senior Fellow at the VWI, Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Senior Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History, and the coordinator of the Horizon Europe Twinning project entitled Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe (2022-2025). A graduate of Vilnius University, she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. A specialist in cultural memory and social trauma, she has published extensively on these topics with a focus on the Baltic States and East-Central Europe. In recent years she has been a visiting scholar at Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Yale University, EHESS, and Uppsala University.

Ljiljana Radonić is the vice-director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and heads an ERC project entitled “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals” there. She wrote her habilitation on World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her PhD dealt with the “War on Memory. Croatian Memory Politics between Revisionism and European Standards”, Frankfurt 2010.

Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

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