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Simon Wiesenthal Lectures

 

The Simon Wiesenthal lecture series takes place regularly every six to eight weeks and aims to present the latest research findings on the Holocaust to both a professional and a broader audience. They take into account the impressive spectrum of this discipline, the numerous questions and issues from empirical-analytical historiography to topics of cultural studies and involve young scholars as well as established academics.

 

Since 2007, when the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) was still being established, the lecture series – at that time in cooperation with the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna– has developed into the flagship of the VWI's outreach activities as a supporting element in the communication of recent academic findings in the field of Holocaust research and Holocaust and genocide studies.

 

For over a decade, the Austrian State Archives generously offered shelter to the Simon Wiesenthal Lectures in the roof foyer of the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv. During the challenging years of the pandemic, the lectures were held online. From autumn 2022, in order to reach out to further audiences, a new cooperation partner was found in the Wien Museum. Until the reopening of the main location at Karlsplatz, the SWL will take place at MUSA, Felderstraße 6-8, next to the Vienna City Hall.

 

 

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Wolf Gruner: Hans Oppenheimer And Other “Impudent Jews”. Forgotten Stories Of Individual Resistance In Nazi Germany
   

Wednesday, 7. December 2022, 18:30 - 20:00

Wien Museum MUSA 1010 Wien, Felderstraße 6–8

 

Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. Based on a new approach and new sources, including police and court materials from various German cities and video testimonies of survivors, the talk will introduce the forgotten stories of 17-year-old Hans Oppenheimer and other resistors, which the Nazis called “Impudent Jews”. The talk will show how between 1933 and 1945 Jewish women and men performed countless acts of resistance in Nazi Germany proper, by destroying Nazi symbols, publicly protesting against the persecution, disobeying Nazi laws and local restrictions, and defending themselves from verbal insults and physical attacks. The fact that so many German Jewish women and men of all ages, educations and professions defied the Nazis obliterates the widespread assumption of the alleged passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust. Their courageous acts, however, still need to be incorporated into the general narrative of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and the Holocaust in general.

Wolf Gruner is the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles since 2008, and Founding Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research since 2014. He is an appointed member of the Academic Committee at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. His new book about the forgotten stories of individual Jewish resistance in Hitler’s Germany is forthcoming with Yale University Press in 2023.

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