Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of

Jewish Museum in

Workshop in the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

Date: 21-23 October 2014 Venue: Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Science (http://www.ucl.cas.cz/en/), Na Florenci 3, Prague 1 ------

Monday 20 October

20.00 -21.30 hrs Welcome event (informal meeting with refreshments, Hotel Prague Embassy, for speakers and invited guests only)

Tuesday 21 October

10.00 – 10.20 hrs Opening remarks by Michal Frankl (Jewish Museum in Prague, Deputy Director)

10.20 – 12.30 hrs Testimonies

● Boaz Cohen (Western Galille College, Akko & Shaanan College, Haifa ): Collecting Testimonies from Survivor Children 1944 – 1949: Methodology and Practice ● Judith Lindenberg: (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris): „Polish Jewry“ [Buenos Aires, 1946-1966]: Publishing the First Testimonies in Yiddish in the Aftermath of the hurbn ● Beate Müller (Newcastle University): “Wait! I want that in order!” David Boder’s Interviews with Holocaust Survivors

12.30 – 13.30 hrs Lunch (at the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR)

13.30 – 15.30 hrs Autobiographic sources

● Ferenc Laczo (Centre for Advanced Study Imre Kertész, Jena. Eastern Europe in the 20th Century. Historical Experiences in Comparative Perspective): Documenting Responsibility and Survival. Early Responses to the Holocaust in Hungary ● Leonid Terushkin (Archive of the Russian Holocaust Center, Moscow): Letters and Diaries of Soviet Jews during the Second World War, as Source for the history of the Holocaust ● Adina Babes ('Elie Wiesel' National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest): Survivor’s Testimonies as Documentary Sources in the Study and Research of Holocaust)

15.30 – 16.00 hrs Coffee break

16.00 – 17.15 hrs Post-war Documentation of the Holocaust in Western and South-Eastern Europe

● Marija Vulesica (Technische Universität Berlin): Yugoslav Jews and their Post-war Efforts to the Documentation of Jewish Pre-war Life and the Holocaust ● Annemieke van Bockxmeer (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam): Post-war History and Methodology of the NIOD (RIOD)

17:30 - 18:30 hrs European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and Early Documentation

● Michal Frankl: EHRI in the Nutshell ● Veerle Vanden Daelen (Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, Brussels), Judith Levin (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem): Identification of Early Documentation of the Holocaust: How Can You Contribute to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure?

Wednesday 22 October

09.00 – 11.30 hrs Documentation as resistance

● Sara Bender (University of Haifa): Real-Time Archives – The Bialystok Ghetto Underground Archives ● Miriam Schulz (Columbia University, New York): New Initiative, New Source. The Komitet tsu zamlen material vegn yidishn khurbn in Poyln 1939 in Vilna and their Secret Documentation of the Destruction of Polish Jewry ● Lea Prais (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem): Collecting while Hiding: Hersch Wasser and his Historical Work, Warsaw 1944 ● Maria Ferenc (Polish Academy of Science): Underground Ghetto Archive in Warsaw (Ringelblum Archive)

11.30 – 12.30 hrs Lunch (at the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR)

12.30 – 15.00 hrs Retribution and Holocaust Documentation

● Irina Rebrova (Technische Universität Berlin): Materials of the Extraordinary State Commission as the Early Official Evidence of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union ● Vasilis Ritzaleos (University of Thrace; General State Archives, Greece): War Crimes Trials and Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust in Bulgaria 1944-1945 ● Alfons Adam (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure [EHRI], Brussels; Terezín Initiative Institute, Prague): Between Retribution and Memory: The Processing of the Nazi Crimes in the post-war from 1945 to 1948

15.00 – 15.30 hrs Coffee break

15.30 – 17.30 hrs Round table – The Auschwitz Album:

● Michael Kraus (Middlebury College): The Auschwitz Album and the Death Factory ● Danny Uziel (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem): The Auschwitz Album as Primary Source Material ● Martin Jelínek (Jewish Museum in Prague): The Early Copy of the Auschwitz Album in the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague

19.00 hrs Dinner (Hybernia Restaurant, Hybernská 7, Prague 1; http://www.hybernia.cz/; for speakers and invited guests only)

Thursday 23 October

9.00 – 11.30 hrs Participants will be divided in two groups and will exchange during the morning:

1) Veerle Vanden Daelen and Judith Levin: Identification of Early Documentation on the Holocaust: How Can You Contribute to the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure / Practical session, Administrative building of the JMP, U Staré školy 1, Prague 1

2) Guided tour through the exhibition “The Orient in Bohemia? Jewish refugees during the First World War”, Robert Guttmann Gallery, U Staré školy 3, Prague 1; http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/aorient_v_cec hach.htm

(for speakers and invited guests only) 12.00 – 13.00 hrs Lunch (at the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR)

13.00 – 14.00 hrs Summary, final discussion

15.00 – 17.00 hrs Guided tour – Jewish quarter and the Jewish Museum (optional, in case of interest please confirm untill October 10 to Magdalena Sedlická, [email protected]), for speakers and invited guests only

18.00 hrs The Auschwitz Album - Public discussion with Michael Kraus, Daniel Uziel and Martin Jelínek (optional, in the Education and Culture Centre of the Jewish Museum in Prague, Maiselova 15, Prague 1; translated between Czech and English)