BEYOND CAMPS AND FORCED LABOUR Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution Fifth International Multi-disciplinary Conference at Imperial War Museum London Wednesday 7- Friday 9 January 2015 ______
WEDNESDAY 7 JANUARY 2015
9.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-12.00 Opening Session (Cinema)
Welcome Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museums) Sir Andrew Burns (UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues) Martin Bock (Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”)
Plenary Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett (New York University), 'An architecture of hope on a site of tragedy: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews'
12.00-13.00 Lunch (Conference Room)
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13.00-15.00 PANELS
PANEL 1 (Room 1) PANEL 2 (Room 2) PANEL 3 (Room 3) Making good and the restoration of varied Early testimonies Healing after the Holocaust: Health and legacies Chair: Ruth Balint (University of New South Wellness efforts in post-war Europe Chair: Joanna Newman (King’s College, London) Wales) Chair: Christine Schmidt (Wiener Library)
Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin- Boaz Cohen (Western Galilee College, Akko and Beth Cohen (California State University, Milwaukee) Shaanan College, Haifa) Northridge) Art of Loss: Madame d’Ora and the restitution of Looking for answers in survivors’ experiences: Starting Over: Reconstituted families after the Aryanized property in Austria early holocaust questionnaires Holocaust
Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester) Olga L. Ryabchenko (O.M. Beketov National Robin Judd (Ohio State University) The long road to compensation: Germany’s University of Urban Economy) A whirlwind of doctors, needles, and tests’: refusal to compensate foreign victims of Everyday life of the forced workers of the health, hygiene and the European Jewish soldier national-socialism and the decision of the so- Spandau Plant by the eyes of a Ukrainian bride called Globalabkommen, 1945-1964 Ostarbeiter Kierra Crago-Schneider (The Conference on Lisa Peschel (University of York) Zoltán Z. Varga (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Jewish Material Claims against Germany) Restitutions of self: reclaiming national identity Memories of camps, memoires of war: personal Rehabilitation and resettlement: the struggle to in scripts from the Terezin ghetto experience, historical trauma, literary expression “normalize” the lives of the tubercular in Post-Second World War Hungarian community in Föhrenwald Michael Berkowitz (University College, London) autobiographies and diaries Ha Shava and the recovery of assets from Jewish institutions: the case of Wulf Jasvoin
15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea Break (Conference Room)
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15.30-17.30 PANELS
PANEL 4 (Room 1) PANEL 5 (Room 2) PANEL 6 (Room 3) Remembering the Holocaust and Jewish Rescue and relief Forced labour History in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Chair: Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck, University of Chair: Martin Bock (Foundation Hungary London) “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”) Chair: Helen Wildman (University of Wolverhampton) Roxana Ghiță (West University of Timișoara) Thomas Irmer (Rummelsburg Memorial, ”Immigrant” or ”refugee”? the reclassification Berlin/Germany) Michal Frankl (Jewish Museum in Prague) and integration in the United States of Jews Expanding the Ostbahn- German private Museums and survivors’ testimony: escaping Nazi persecution: (1933-1945) companies and Jewish labourers, 1939-1944 representations of the Holocaust in Czech museums and memorials Irene Messinger (University of Vienna) Sabine Rutar (Institut für Ost- und Marriage of convenience as a strategy to Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg, Gerald Lamprecht (Graz University) survive the Nazi regime Germany) Jewish history and identity reflected in Jewish Labour deployment in Yugoslav mining museums in post-war Austria Joanna Beata Michlic (Bristol University) industries Rescuers of Jews and their Jewish charges in Eastern Europe: the history of silence Judith Schachtmann (Berlin, Germany) German archaeology and forced labour during the Nazi regime
Marianne Neerland Soleim (Uit, The Arctic University of Norway) Forced labourers “from the East” in Northern Europe 1940-1945 17.45 Coach Departs for Macmillan Hall, Senate House, University of London (Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU) Drinks and Canapés 19.00 Welcome and Plenary Lecture Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck, University of London) David Feldman (Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London)
Nikolaus Wachsmann (Birkbeck, University of London), ‘After Liberation – Legacies of the Nazi Concentration Camps’
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THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2015 9.30-1200 PANELS
PANEL 7 (Room 1) PANEL 8 (Room 2) PANEL 9 (Room 3) Forced labour Repatriation and resettlement Children Chair: John Buckley (University of Chair: Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Chair: Susanne Urban (International Tracing Wolverhampton) Manchester) Service)
Angel Chorapchiev (University of Haifa) and Dieter Bacher (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute) Rita Horvath (Yad Vashem) Vasilis Ritzaleos (Democritus University of Forced to go – wanted to stay: the role of Holocaust testimonies given by Child-Survivors Thrace) national and international administration for the to two large-Scale historical-memorial projects in The role of the Jewish forced labour battalions integration of former foreign forced labourers in the immediate aftermath of the Second World on the line Simitli - Sidirocastro in the geo - Austria, 1945 to 1955 War strategic plans of Bulgaria during the Second World War Kevin McCarthy (University College Cork) Maryann McLoughlin (The Richard Stockton Operation Shamrock and the children of College of New Jersey) Dallas Michelbacher (Central Michigan Clonwyn Castle: a comparison that suggests Children and war, the Aftermath: Post-Conflict University) Christian children were more cherished than Second World War Jewish refugee children Jewish forced labour brigades in Romania under Jewish ones the Antonescu Regime Michaela Raggam-Blesch (Austrian Academy of Andrea Strutz (LBI for History of Society and Sciences) Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po CERI, Paris) Culture/University of Graz) Precarious protection: the fate of children of The Jewish mobile labour battalions in Pirin, Reluctant welcome: the post-1945 resettlement "half-Jewish" descent during the Nazi-regime in Macedonia (Bulgaria): writing and remembering of displaced persons and refugees to Canada Austria a silenced History Malin Thor Tureby (Linköping University, Kamila Uzarczyk (Wrocław Medical University) Sweden) Broken childhood: Polish ‘Lebensborn’ children The Swedish Jews and the Jewish refugees. in Austria Public narratives about refugees and survivors in the Swedish-Jewish press 1933–1945
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12.00-13.00 Lunch (Conference Room)
13.00-15.00 PANELS
PANEL 10 (Room 1) PANEL 11 (Room 2) PANEL 12 (Room 3) Compensation and restitution Forced labour Early testimonies Chair: Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (University of Chair: J.D.Steinert (University of Chair: David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, Haifa) Wolverhampton) University of London)
Herwig Czech (Documentation Center of the Kinga Frojimovics (Yad Vashem) and Éva Kovács Isabelle Davion (University Paris-Sorbonne) Austrian Resistance/Austrian Academy of (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Surviving Auschwitz to come back: Witold Sciences) Studies) Pilecki 1943-1945 Debates in post-Second World War Austria on The topography of slavery - Hungarian forced health damages caused by Nazi persecution labourers in Vienna (1944-1945) Sharon Deane-Cox (University of Edinburgh) Memory, at one remove: translating the Imke Hansen, Christiane Hess, Mena Urbitsch Herbert Reinke (Humboldt University, Berlin) testimonies of women survivors and Nina Schulz A triple victimization? Belgian forced laborers Ghetto-pensions: of disputes, discourses and in Berlin during the Second World War and Michael Fleming (Polish University Abroad, actors thereafter at home London) The Holocaust and British information Kateřina Králová (Charles University, Prague) Doris Tausendfreund (Freie Universität Berlin) management strategy The Holocausts in Greece? Victim competition Museums, archives and record-building regarding the post-war compensation for Nazi Beate Müller (Newcastle University) and Sue persecution Vice (University of Sheffield) Representing Jan Karski: Jan Karski’s Jeff Porter (Birkbeck, University of London) representations: from tape- recorder to Restitution in the early post-war period for Holocaust witness Germans robbed by the Nazis: A trans-Atlantic perspective
15.00-15.30 Coffee/Tea Break (Conference Room)
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15.30-17.30 PANELS
PANEL 13 (Room 1) PANEL 14 (Room 2) PANEL 15 (Room 3) Memoralization, commemoration, Prisoners of War Jewish Displaced Persons remembrance Chair: Suzanne Brown-Fleming (United States Chair: Andrea Strutz (University of Graz, Austria) Chair: Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Holocaust Memorial Museum) Museums) Lukasz Krzyzanowski (University of Warsaw) Arne Pannen (Documentation Center on Nazi ’Ghost citizens’ in an ordinary Polish town: Roderick Bailey (Oxford University) Forced Labor Berlin-Schoeneweide/Memorial Holocaust survivors returning to Radom Beyond Bonhoeffer: towards a history of and Museum Sachsenhausen) immediately after the war Flossenburg's punishment block The Italian military internees in Germany 1943- 1945 Katarzyna Person (Jewish Historical Institute) Marek Kaźmierczak (Adam Mickiewicz Reactions to the post-war pogroms in Poland in University, Poznań) Piotr Stanek (Central Museum of Prisoners-of- DP Camps in Germany and their impact on the 1500. Between commemoration and colloquial War) Jewish Displaced Persons thinking The youngest prisoners of war: Warsaw insurgents from the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) Ori Yehudai (New York University) Anna Medvedovskaya (Dnipropetrovsk National Unwilling haven: Israeli remigrants in University) Christina Winkler (University of Leicester) Foehrenwald, 1949-1957 The process of memorialization of the Holocaust History and memory of war and the Holocaust in victims in Ukraine in the second part of the Rostov-on-Don twentieth century. Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas) Remembering and reconciliation: life review of American veterans of the Second World War 17.45 Departure from Imperial War Museum to the Austrian Cultural Forum London (28 Rutland Gate, London SW7 1PQ). Delegates to travel by public transport. Reception: drinks and canapés
19.00 Welcome Elisabeth Koegler (Austrian Cultural Forum) J.D. Steinert (University of Wolverhampton)
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FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2015 9.30-12.00 PANELS
PANEL 16 (Room 1) PANEL 17 (Room 2) PANEL 18 (Room 3) Visual testimonies Repatriation and resettlement Survival strategies Chair: Barry Langford (Royal Holloway, Chair: Elizabeth Anthony (United States Chair: Hanna Ulatowska (University of Texas at University of London) Holocaust Memorial Museum) Dallas)
Johannes Breit (Humboldt University, Germany) Viorel Achim (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Martin Dean (United States Holocaust Memorial Forced labor in focus Romania) Museum) The problems encountered by former Roma Strategies of Jewish survival in ghettos and Christiane Hess (Leuphana University Lueneburg) deportees after returning from Transnistria forced labor camps Getting the picture: social relations and their representations in concentration camps Beata Halicka (University of Adam Mickiewicz Avinoam Patt (University of Hartford) /European University Viadrina ) Three Lines in History': Writing about Resistance Anastasia Kostetskaya (University of Hawai'i) From slaves to settlers in a Polish Wild West: the in the Immediate aftermath of the Holocaust Unfilmed Stalingrad: ’Child-Actors’ of ‘the Great end of the Second World War from the Battle’ perspective of forced labourers Bettine Siertsema (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam) Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (University of Haifa) Anatolii Pogorielov (V.O. Sukhomlynsky Mykolaiv The medical ‘grey zone’ On the Judenrat: A discussion of Claude National University) Lanzmann's film 'The Last of the Unjust' Resettlement and social-and-economic Sari Siegel (University of Southern California) (France/Austria, 2013) adaptation of Ukrainians deported from Poland Complicating the ‘grey zone’: Behavioural to South Ukraine, 1944-1947 trajectories of prisoner-physicians Anna Manchin (Center for Jewish History) ’Happy Moments from the life of Labour Ruth Balint (University of New South Wales) Martina Metzger (Bavarian Army Museum, Battalion 341’: constructing visual memoires of Accusations and denunciations in DP archives Ingolstadt) Jewish Forced Labour Service in Hungary, 1940- Survival strategies of political prisoners at 42 Neuengamme concentration camp
12.00-13.00 Lunch (Conference Room)
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13.00-15.00 PANELS
PANEL 19 (Room 1) PANEL 20 (Room 2) PANEL 21 (Room 3) Trials and justice The legacy of the euthanasia programmes and The International Tracing Service Digital Chair: Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg, medical experiments Collection: expanding research possibilities Austria) Chair: Martin Bock (Foundation ’Remembrance, Commentator: Ben Barkow (Wiener Library) Responsibility and Future’) Alison Carrol (Brunel University) & Laure Suzanne Brown-Fleming (United States Humbert (University of Exeter) Sheldon Rubenfeld (Center for Medicine after Holocaust Memorial Museum) Fractured and ambiguous memories: the the Holocaust (CMATH), Baylor College of Imagining the refugee in the ITS Malgré-Nous and the Banatais in post- Medicine, Texas) liberation France Hippocrates after the Holocaust Christine Schmidt (Wiener Library) Women behind barbed wire: Hungarian Jewish Gabriel N. Finder (University of Virginia) Michael Grodin (Boston University) women slave labourers reflected in the ITS Jews judging Jews: trials of Kapos in the Jewish The Nuremberg doctors’ trial: echoes of the Honour Court in post-war Poland defence Elizabeth Anthony (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Łukasz Jasiński (Museum of the Second World Gerrit Hohendorf (Institute for History and Representations of sexual violence in the War, Gdansk) Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of records of the ITS Digital Archive The Central Commission for the Investigation of Munich (TUM), Germany) German/ Hitlerite Crimes in Poland as an The legacy of the Nazi euthanasia program: are Susanne Urban (International Tracing Service, instrument of post-war retribution there any lessons to be learned from history for Bad Arolsen) current debates on medically- assisted dying? Allied options to acknowledge and to assist – Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak (Jewish Historical German Jews and German Sinti as Displaced Institute, Warsaw) Maryna Dubyk (National Academy of Science) Persons The role of gender in the Polish Jewish civic Ukrainian victims of Nazi medical experiments: court 1946-1950 a review of the evidence
15.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea & Closing Session (Conference Room) David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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