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Since the 1980s, the politics of remembrance and the central place held by the Holocaust therein have moved into the focus of a global cultural policy debate. Triggered by popular formats such as TV series, the establishment of Holocaust museums, and the erection of memorial sites and memorials, and by documentations, feature films, plays, as well as exhibitions, the highly controversial debate has addressed and continues to address the question of the sense and form of Holocaust remembrance as well as its possibilities and limits.

 

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) understands its educational mission as the task of preserving the visibility of the cultural context of remembrance and the media anthropological background as well as the discursive context of popular remembrance of the Holocaust and other genocides for its audience. The materiality and the act of remembrance itself are focussed on by making these the very topic and issue of educational questions. This is achieved on the one hand via academic debate and reasoning, on the other by testing the issue in various contexts by experiment. The latter takes place in the framework of “Interventions in Public Spaces”, involving especially artists and writers.

 

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Echoes, memories, and aftereffects – resonances – are usually laden with emotion, sentimental and individual. The aim of this event series is therefore to cultivate anew a conversation beyond the today much discussed ‘echo chambers’ of social media and to offer a space for mutual thought and reflection – in other words for resonating – at the intersection of living memory, collective memory, and scholarly analysis: Different aspects of, approaches to, and perspectives on the research areas of the VWI will be sounded out here; intergenerational conversations will be enabled; questioning, ruminating, and doubting will be allowed – borrowing freely from the words of Bertolt Brecht and Marcel Reich-Ranicki: “Curtains closed and all the questions open.”

 

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Racheli Kreisberg: Simon Wiesenthal's Legacy
   

Thursday, 26. January 2023, 15:00 - 17:00

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) 1010 Wien, Rabensteig 3, Research Lounge

 

Over the course of the last 25 years, Racheli Kreisberg’s genealogy research led to to the development of the Simon Wiesenthal Genealogy Geolocation Initiative (SWIGGI). SWIGGI is an innovative platform which assists people to identify the (exact location of) 19th and 20th century houses of their family members. SWIGGI focuses on the Galician towns Skala Podolska and Nadworna, nowadays in the Ukraine, (Ghetto) Lodz and its 250,000 Jewish inhabitants, Vienna, and the life before the war as well as the fate of its 65,000 transported Jews, the Netherlands and the deportation of its 104,000 Jews. Holocaust victims are commemorated via the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Memorial.

In this talk Racheli Kreisberg will present SWIGGI, the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Memorial as well as the deportation maps of the Viennese and Dutch Jews. Examples of prominent Jews, of elderly people, of children and of entire families will be demonstrated.
https://simonwiesenthal-galicia-ai.com/

Racheli Kreisberg is an entrepreneur and an innovation expert. She serves as Innovation Attaché at the Netherlands Embassy in Israel and established the Israeli Dutch Innovation Center in 2016. Racheli Kreisberg is commemorating Simon Wiesenthal, her late grandfather. She develops the Simon Wiesenthal Genealogy Geolocation Initiative (SWIGGI), an innovative genealogy platform which links family trees to Google Maps, as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Memorial (SW-HoMe) to commemorate Holocaust victims. Racheli Kreisberg holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology and Molecular Microbiology and an Executive MBA from Tel Aviv University (TAU), and a M.Sc. in Chemistry (summa cum laude) from the Technion.

Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest 26 January 2023, 12:00 am and bring an ID. By attening, you consent to the publication of photographs, video and audio recordings made during the event.

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