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Building on Kateřina Králová’s book Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–1946 (Brandeis University Press, 2025), in this event, the author, in conversation with Jay Prosser, Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds, explores the meanings of “homecoming” for Jews from Greece through the lens of survivor testimony.
Drawing from her book Stolen Legacies, author and prosecutor Adena J. Bernstein explores how restitution processes frequently placed impossible burdens on those who had already lost everything. Through powerful case studies and family stories, this program examines the emotional, legal, and moral dimensions of recovery, asking what justice can mean decades after genocide.
Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland offers an intimate social history of Jewish childhood during and after the Holocaust. The book's author, Joanna Beata Michlic, will be in conversation with Zoë Waxman.
Join us for a special presentation by Dr Gilly Carr highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.
When Robin Lustig’s mother died in 2013, he found himself drawn back into the tangled history of his German-Jewish family -- a story of survival, exile, death and endurance. He will discuss his book, and the issues it raises, with Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees.
Natalie Livingstone, joined in conversation by Daniel Finkelstein, will be speaking about her new book which marks the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials – a revelatory history that sheds new light on the most famous trials of the twentieth century through the stories of eight extraordinary women whose significance has long been overlooked.
Join us for a special presentation by Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.
Join Samuel Clowes Huneke for a conversation about his new book I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany, in conversation with Dr Rosie Ramsden and Dr William Ross Jones.
A team from the Wiener Holocaust Library is visiting Windermere Library to offer a free event, exploring this complicated history and how the search for the missing continues today. Join us for this free event, hosted in conjunction with the Lake District Holocaust Project. We welcome historians, archivists, family historians, heritage practitioners, and anyone interested in Jewish and Holocaust history and its aftermath.
Join us for a special talk by Dr Charles Dick highlighting aspects of our newest exhibition Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators and Victims.
Join us for an evening talk by Dr Uta Rautenberg on her new book Homophobia in Nazi Concentration Camps, a seminal study of the often-stigmatised topic of homophobia among prisoners in Nazi camps.
Join us for an evening discussing the material history of Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien's ‘The Emperor of Atlantis.' This new facsimile brings together the surviving sources and makes them accessible in the highest print quality. The exceptional book and its content will be presented by the editor of the facsimile, Heidy Zimmerman, and the son of the man responsible for the sources' survival, Jeremy Adler.
