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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) Draft dated 5 Jan 2015 1 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) Draft dated 5 Jan 2015 2 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’ Draft dated 5 Jan 2015 3 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 Draft dated 5 Jan 2015 4 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) Draft dated 5 Jan 2015 5 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