Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors

BEYOND CAMPS AND FORCED LABOUR: CURRENT INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON SURVIVORS OF NAZI PERSECUTION FIFTH INTERNATIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON 7-9 JANUARY 2015 LIST OF SPEAKERS

NAME TITLE AFFILIATION

Achim, Viorel The problems encountered by Nicolae Irga Institute of Romania History former Roma deported after returning from Transnistria Bacher, Dieter Forced to go - wanted to stay: The Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute Graz, Austria for Research of role of national and international administration for the integration of former foreign forced labourers in Austria 1945 to 1955 Bender, Sara Memory and Testimony - Beyond DAPIM Israel Forced Labor Camps in the Radom District, Poland (1942-1944) - A Comparative Study Ben-Naftaly, Aya Forced Labour and Executions: The Massuah International Israel Institute for Holocaust Ninth Fort as a Test Case Studies

Breit, Johannes Forced Labor in Focus Humboldt University, Berlin Berin

Burgard, Antoine “Another fellow who had come for Université Lumière Lyon 2 / France/Canada Université du Québec à another children’s project…”: The Montréal Canadian War Orphans Project and competition over Jewish children in post-war Europe.

Carrol, Alison & Laure Fractured and Ambiguous Brunel University/University UK of Exeter Humbert memories: The Malgré-Nous and the Banatais in post-Liberation France Chorapchiev, Angel The role of the Jewish forced University of Israel/Greece Haifa/Democritus University and Vasilis Ritzaleos labour battalions on the line Simitli of Thrace - Sidirocastro in the geo - strategic plans of Bulgaria during the WW II

Cohen, Boaz Looking for answers in survivors Western Galilee College, Haifa, Israel Akko and Shaanan College experiences: early holocaust questionnaires Colomina, Immaculada Promoting peace. British and Arizona State University USA American Quaker relief programs for the refugee children in France.

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Creangă , Ovidiu Soviet Prisoners of War in Romania: United States Holocaust USA Memorial Museum Charting a New Territory

Czech, Herwig Debates in post-WWII Austria on Austrian Academy of Austria Sciences health damages caused by Nazi persecution Davion, Isabelle Surviving Auschwitz to come back : University Paris-Sorbonne France Witold Pilecki 1943-1945 Deane-Cox, Sharon Memory, at one remove: University of Edinburgh Scotland Translating the testimonies of women survivors Di Palma, Sara Like a Lodged Bullet – Being Jewish Museum of Florence Italy Valentina Holocaust Child Survivors Dubyk, Maryna Ukrainian victims of Nazi medical National Academy of Science Ukraine experiments: a review of evidence base Finder, Gabriel N. Jews Judging Jews: Trials of kapos University of Virginia USA in the Jewish Honor Court in Postwar Poland Fleming, Michael The Holocaust and British Polish University Abroad, UK London information management strategy Ghiță, Roxana ”Immigrant” or ”refugee”? West University of Timișoara Romania Reclassification and integration in the United States of Jews escaping Nazi persecution: (1933-1945) Gring, Diana "Too Young to Remember?" - The Bergen-Belsen Memorial Germany relationship between age and memory structure in video testimonies with child survivors Halicka, Beata From slaves to settlers in a Polish University of Adam Poznao Mickiewicz /European /Germany Wild West: the end of World War II University Viadrina from the perspective of forced labourers Hansen, Imke, Ghetto-pensions: Of disputes, Christiane Hess, Mena discourses and actors Urbitsch and Nina Schultz Hess, Christiane Visual archives: Social relations and Bielefeld University Germany their representations in concentration camps Horvath, Rita Holocaust Testimonies given by International Institute for Israel Holocaust Research in Yad Chid-Survivors to Two Large-Scale Vashem Historical-Memorial Projects in the Immediate Aftermath of World War Two Irmer, Thomas Expanding the `Ostbahn´- German private companies and Jewish labourers, 1939-1944

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Jasioski, Łukasz The Central Commission for the Museum of the Second Gdansk World War in Gdansk Investigation of German/ Hitlerite Crimes in Poland as an instrument of postwar retribution Kabalek, Kobi Reconsidering the “Margins” of Ben Gurion University Israel Memory: Postwar German Depictions of Rescuing Jews during the Holocaust Kangisser Cohen, Children's interpretation and Hebrew University of Israel Jerusalem Sharon understanding of war and trauma Kaźmierczak, Marek 1500. Between commemoration Adam Mickiewicz University Poznao and colloquial thinking Kazyulina, Regina Postwar Soviet Repatriation and Northeastern University USA the Consequences of Myopic State Planning, 1944-1948 Keren, Mili Surviviors in 'grey zones' including Kibbutzim College of Israel Education kapos: The Israeli Society Attitude towards "Jewish collaborators" until the mid-fifties of the 20th century : Eliezer Grinboim – A Test Case Kirsch, Mary Fraser “Shattered by Mental and Physical College of William and Mary USA Strain”: The Treatment and Assimilation of “Defective” Child Survivors Knox, Zoe Making History of the Nazi University of Leicester UK Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses: The Watch Tower Society and Holocaust Remembrance Kostetskaya, Anastasia Unfilmed Stalingrad: “Child-Actors” University of Hawai'i USA of the Great Battle Kovács, Éva and Kinga The Topography of Slavery - Vienna Wiesenthal Institute Austria/Israel for Holocaust Studies/Yad Frojimovics Hungarian Forced Labourers in Vashem Archives Vienna (1944-1945)

Kozlovsky Golan, On the Judenrat: A discussion of University of Haifa Israel Yvonne Claude Lanzmann's film 'The Last of the Unjust' (France/Austria, 2013)

Koźmioska-Frejlak, Ewa The Role of Gender in the Polish Jewish Historical Institute Poland Jewish Civic Court 1946-1950 Králová, Kateřina The Holocausts in Greece? Victim Charles University Prague Competition regarding the Post- War Compensation for Nazi Persecution

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Krzyzanowski, Lukasz “Ghost citizens” in an ordinary University of Warsaw Poland Polish Town: Holocaust survivors returning to Radom immediately after the war Laczó, Ferenc+A55 Articulating the Unprecedented: Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena Germany Major Nazi Camps and Key Components of the Extermination of European Jewry in Hungarian Jewish Witness Accounts from 1945-46 Lapp, Benjamin Helmut Eschwege: A Jewish Montclair State University New Jersey, USA Historian of the Holocaust in the GDR Manchin, Anna “Happy Moments from the life of Center for Jewish History New York, USA Labor Battalion 341”: Constructing visual memoires of Jewish Forced Labour Service in Hungary, 1940-42

Markus, Andrew and The Resettlement of Holocaust Monash University Australia Margaret Taft survivors in Melbourne, Australia 1946-1961 McCarthy, Kevin Operation Shamrock and the University College Cork Ireland Children of Clonwyn Castle: A Comparison that suggests Christian Children were more cherished than Jewish ones McLoughlin, Maryann Children and War, the Aftermath: The Richard Stockton College USA Post-Conflict WWII Jewish Refugee Children Medvedovskaya, Anna The Process of Memorialization of Dnipropetrovsk National Ukraine University the Holocaust victims in Ukraine in the Second Part of the XX c. Mędykowski, Witold Jewish Self-Aid (ŻSS or JUS) and its Yad Vashem Israel W. relief activity in forced labor camps in the General Government Messinger, Irene Fictitious Marriage as Strategy to University of Vienna Vienna, Austria Survive the Nazi Regime Metzger, Martina Survival strategies of political Bavarian Army Museum Germany Ingolstadt prisoners at Neuengamme concentration camp Michelbacher, Dallas Jewish Forced Labor Brigades in Central Michigan University USA Romania under the Antonescu Regime Michlic, Joanna Beata Rescuers of Jews and their Jewish Bristol University UK Charges in Eastern Europe: the History of Silence Müller, Beate and Sue Representing Jan Karski – Jan Newcastle UK University/University of Vice Karski’s Representations: From Sheffield ‘Tape Recorder’ to Holocaust Witness

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Muminov, Sherzod From Camp to Camp: Soviet University of Cambridge UK Repatriate Prisoners and Foreign POWs in the Gulag after World War II Nagel, Jens Remembering prisoners of war as Memorial Ehrenhain Zeithain Germany victims of National Socialist persecution and murder in post- war Germany Ninhos, Cláudia and History and amnesia in the case of University of Lisbon Portugal Antonio Muñoz Portugal Sánchez Pannen, Arne The Italian Military Internees in Memorial and Museum the Germany Nazi Forced Labour Germany 1943-1945 Documentation Centre/Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen

Paulovicova, Nina Labour camps in Slovakia through Canada the lens of Holocaust survivors’ testimonies Person, Kasia Reactions to the postwar pogroms in Poland in DP Camps in Austria and Germany and their impact on the Jewish Displaced Persons Pogorelov, Anatoliy Resettlement and social-and- National University n.a. V.O. Ukraine Sukhomlynskiy economic adaptation of Ukrainians deported from Poland to South Ukraine in 1944-1947 years

Porter, Jeff Restitution in the early post-war Birkbeck, University of UK London period for Germans robbed by the Nazis: A trans-Atlantic perspective Raggam-Blesch, Precarious protection: The fate of Austrian Academy of Austria Sciences Michaela children of "half-Jewish" descent during the Nazi-regime in Austria Reinke, Herbert A triple victimization? Belgian Forced laborers in Berlin during World War II and thereafter at home Humboldt University, Berlin Germany Ryabchenko, Olga L. Everyday Life of the Forced O.M. Beketov National Ukraine University of Urban Workers of the Spandau Plant by Economy the Eyes of a Ukrainian Ostarbeiter

Schachtmann, Judith German archaeology and forced Brandenburgean Heritage Germany Service and Archaeological labour during the NS State Museum

Schultz, Ina The life of orphaned and Freie University of Berlin Germany unaccompanied children in DP- Children's Centers in postwar Germany and their assistance and care by international aid agencies As of 11 June 2014 5

A Lower Saxony Memorials Germany“) "לאנדסמנשאפטן פון קרבן א" Seybold, Katja Foundation. Victim of Landsmanshaftn”). Landsmanshaftn in the Jewish Displaced Persons Camp Bergen- Belsen and their Meaning for the Survivors Siegal, Sari Complicating the Grey Zone: University of Southern USA California Behavioral Trajectories of Prisoner- Physicians Siertsema, Bettine ‘The medical grey zone’ for the Vrije Universiteit in the Amsterdam Netherlands Fifth Conference Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Smith, Amy Rumors and Whispers: Holocaust Yale University USA Survivors and the Use of Ad hoc Intra-Jewish Networks to Search for Family in 1945 Soleim, Marianne Forced labourers “from the East” in Falstad Centre Norway Neerland Northern Europe 1940-1945 Stanek, Piotr The youngest Prisoners of War –

Warsaw insurgents from Home Central Museum of Army (Armia Krajowa) Prisoners-of-War Poland Strutz, Andrea Reluctant welcome: Post-45 University of Graz Austria resettlement of displaced persons and refugees to Canada Tausendfreund, Doris Museums, archives and record- Freie Universität Berlin Germany building Tureby, Malin Thor The Swedish Jews and the Jewish Linköping University Sweden refugees. Public narratives about refugees and survivors in the Swedish-Jewish press 1933–1945 Ulatowska, Hanna & Remembering and University of Texas, USA Diana Garst Walsh Reconciliation: Life Review of Dallas American Veterans of the Second World War Urban, Susanne Allied Options to acknowledge and Yad Vashem Israel to assist – German Jews and German Sinti as Displaced Persons Uzarczyk, Kamila Broken childhood: Polish Wrocław Medical University Poland „Lebensborn“ children in Austria Vaitulevich, Tatsiana The return of former forced Georg-August-University Germany labourers to post-war Belarus. Soviet propaganda and the motivation of homecoming Varga, Zoltán Z. Memories of camps, memoires of Hungarian Academy of Hungary Sciences war: personal experience, historical trauma, literary expression in Post- World War 2's Hungarian autobiographies and diaries

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Winkler, Christina History and Memory of War and University of Leicester UK the Holocaust in Rostov-on-Don Yehudai, Ori Problems of Second Rehabilitation: Center for Jewish History in USA New York Israeli Remigrants in Foehrenwald

PANEL TITLE: Healing after the Holocaust: Health and Wellness efforts in postwar Europe Beth Cohen Reconstituted Families After the California State USA Holocaust University, Northridge

Robin Judd A Whirlwind of Doctors, Ohio State University USA Needles, and Tests’: Health, Hygiene and the European Jewish Soldier Bride Kierra Crago- Rehabilitation and University of California, USA Schneider Resettlement: The Struggle to Los Angeles “Normalize” the Lives of the Tubercular Community in Föhrenwald

PANEL TITLE: Definitions of Defiance: New Research on Resistance in the Camps and Ghettos Martin Dean Strategies of Jewish Survival in USHMM USA Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps Avinoam Patt Three Lines in History': Writing University of Hartford USA about Resistance in the Immediate Aftermath of the Holocaust

PANEL TITLE: Remembering the Holocaust and Jewish History in Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary Michal Frankl Museum and Survivors’ Jewish Museum in Prague Czech Testimony: Representations of Republic the Holocaust in Czech Museums and Memorials Gerald Lamprecht Jewish History and Identity Graz University Austria reflected in Jewish Museums in Postwar Austria Ursula Mindler Hungary and the distortion of Andrássy University Hungary Holocaust history – the 2014 Budapest Budapest Holocaust museum and memorial

PANEL TITLE: Making good and the restoration of varied legacies Joanna Newman Chair KCL UK

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Lisa Silverman Art of Loss: Madame d'Ora and University of Wisconsin- USA the restitution of Jewish Milwaukee property in Vienna Jean-Marc Dreyfus The long road to compensation: University of Manchester UK Germany's refusal to compensate foreign victims of national-socialism and the decision of the so-called Globalabkommen, 1945-1964

Lisa Peschel Restitution of self: Reclaiming University of York UK national identity in scripts from the Terezin ghetto

Michael Berkowitz HaShava and the recovery of UCL UK assets from Jewish institutions: the case of Wulf Jasvoin

PANEL TITLE: The Legacy of Euthanasia and Medical Experiments Sheldon Rubenfeld The legacy of euthanasia and Baylor College of USA medical experiments Medicine Tom L. Beauchamp USA Gerrit Hohendorf USA

PANEL TITLE: (None given) Sabine Rutar Labour Deployment in Yugoslav Institut für Ost- und Yugoslavia Südosteuropaforschung Mining Industries (IOS)

Nadège Ragaru The Jewish Mobile Labour Sciences Po (CERI, Paris) France Battalions in Pirin Macedonia (Bulgaria): Writing and Remembering a Silenced History

PANEL TITLE: The International Tracing Service Digital Collection: Expanding Research Possibilities Paul Shapiro Moderator/Commentator US Holocaust Memorial USA Museum

Suzanne Brown- Imagining the Refugee in ITS US Holocaust Memorial USA Fleming Museum Christine Schmidt Women behind Barbed Wire: Weiner Library UK Hungarian Jewish Women Slave Laborers in the Nazi Camps

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Elizabeth Anthony Representations of Sexual US Holocaust Memorial USA Violence in the Records of the Museum ITS Digital Archive

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