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Schließtage der VWI-Bibliothek – Closing days of the VWI Library

 

Die Bibliothek ist von 1. bis 5. April 2024 geschlossen.

 

The library will be closed from 1 to 5 April 2024.

The Lodz Ghetto and the Kriminalpolizei: Jews, Neighbors, and Perpetrators in the Holocaust

 

VWI Senior Fellow Winson Chu will hold the Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture in Eastern European Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on Thursday, 4 April 2024.

 

The German criminal police (Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo) maintained a permanent station in the Lodz ghetto, which over the four years of its existence imprisoned some 200,000 Jews. Responsible for stopping smuggling networks and for gathering information about hidden possessions inside and outside the ghetto, the Kripo relied heavily on local ethnic Germans, the so-called Volksdeutsche. These policemen exploited their prewar social networks in their investigations and carried out violent acts against Jews familiar to them. They deployed their Polish and Yiddish language skills in interrogations of suspects, and they used their knowledge of Jewish religious practices and local customs to spy on the Jews and later to evaluate their confiscated property.

 

In this talk, Winson Chu focuses on how police records in Poland and survivor sources at YIVO enable a better understanding of such prewar connections with wartime perpetrators. By providing additional detail and context to existing accounts of ghetto experiences, this approach re-embeds Jews into interethnic relations in prewar Lodz and Nazi-occupied Poland and questions the common perception of the Lodz ghetto as “hermetically sealed.”

 

https://www.yivo.org/Kriminalpolizei 

EHRI Workshop and Microarchives in Austria

 

EHRIThe full-day workshop "EHRI and Microarchives in Austria" took place at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) on 4 March 2024. The Institute presented EHRI's plans to improve support for microarchives and invited Austrian microarchive owners and experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges of collaboration. The microarchive owners shared their wishes and requirements with the VWI-EHRI team, which may lead to further cooperation.

 

 

EHRI-Workshop und Mikroarchive in Österreich

 

Unter dem Titel “EHRI und Mikroarchive in Österreich“ fand am 4. März 2024 ein ganztägiger Workshop am Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) statt. Das Institut präsentierte hier das Vorhaben von #EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure), die Unterstützung für Mikroarchive zu verbessern und lud hierfür österreichische Mikroarchivinhaber:innen sowie Expert:innen ein, um Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen einer Zusammenarbeit zu diskutieren. Die Mikroarchivinhaber:innen haben mit dem VWI-EHRI-Team ihre Wünsche und Anforderungen geteilt, mit denen eine weitere Zusammenarbeit zustande kommen kann.

Workshop: Europe and the USSR. Literature in the Face of the Persecution and Extermination of the Jews

 

A workshop organised by VWI Senior fellow Atinati Mamatsashvili, hosted by the VWI on 22 March 2024

 

The workshop’s purpose is to examine the literary, artistic, musical and cinematographic responses to the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s, which led to the systematic persecution and extermination of Europe’s Jews. It will focus on the period before as well as after the war. This will allow to consider, on the one hand, the capacity of literature (and other media) to project an aftermath as a consequence of ongoing events, and on the other hand the aftermath as it was felt in the years following the Shoah.
What was the response or capability of writers who were subjected to censorship during the Stalinist and post-Stalinist regimes? How did authors depict the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and European countries in the decades before and after the Second World War in their literary (artistic) works? This workshop aims to raise initial questions on a vast subject that is still very under-explored in certain areas and from certain perspectives, such as minor literature and forgotten writers.

 

Organisers

Anke Bosse (Universität Klagenfurt/Musil-Institut/Kärntner Literaturarchiv)
Atinati Mamatsashvili (Ilia State University / Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien)

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Das Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) wird gefördert von:

 

bmbwf 179

 

wienkultur 179

 

  BKA 179