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Dienstag, 14. Jänner 2025, 18:00 - 19:30 Please use the link below to join the event
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Launch Event
Join us for the Launch of the EHRI Online Edition The Sunflower. History and Reception of a Literary Holocaust Testimony! This digital edition provides context and archival documentation on a key text of Holocaust education: Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower. On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, first published in 1969. In this book, Simon Wiesenthal takes us back to his experiences as a forced laborer in the Janowska camp in Lviv and tells us about his encounter with a mortally wounded SS soldier. He asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness for having participated in the destruction of a house with 300 Jews. Wiesenthal leaves the room without saying anything. More than 20 years later, Simon Wiesenthal sent this story to public figures from politics, literature, science, and theology asking them to consider the question: “What would I have done?” The Sunflower was published in 16 languages in over 20 editions. Replies were sent by Primo Levi, Simone Veil, Saul Friedländer, Jean Améry, Esther Bejarano, Heinrich Böll and many others. Editorial team: Kinga Frojimovics, Éva Kovács, Ines Koeltzsch, Florine Miez, Fabio Rovigo and Marianne Windsperger, special thanks to Teresa Preis, Wolfgang Schellenbacher and Sandra B. Weiss (VWI and EHRI-3) Program Presentation of the EHRI Online Edition The Sunflower: History and Reception of a Literary Holocaust Testimony Kinga Frojimovics, Fabio Rovigo and Marianne Windsperger (VWI) Podium Discussion “What Can We Learn from the Sunflower Edition? And How Can We Use it for Education?” Barbara Agnese (Université de Montréal), Gerald Steinacher (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) in conversation with Éva Kovács (VWI) Zoom-link: EHRI Online Edition: Listen to the EHRI Podcast about the book “The Sunflower”: |
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