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Book Talk: The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, with Anne Sebba and Lord Daniel Finkelstein

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. In The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care, drawing on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the first time.

Public lecture and musical performance: Revealing suppressed culture – Lost histories in the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

An event hosted with the Reawakening Suppressed Music project. Dr Barbara Warnock will explore some of the traces and records of culture suppressed during the Nazi era that are contained in the Library’s extensive archives. Conductor Shelley Katz joined by soprano Adaya Peled will present orchestral works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn and Hans Krieg.

Hybrid Book Talk: Vanishing Vienna with Frances Tanzer

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. Join us for the latest event in our new Academic Books series.

Book Talk: Burning Psalms – Menachem Rosensaft in Conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Join us for an evening with Menachem Rosensaft, author of Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz, who will discuss his book in conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg. This event will explore Rosensaft’s reflections on faith, memory, and resilience in the aftermath of the trauma of the Shoah.

Hybrid Event: A Quirk of History – The Logistics of Destruction in Hungary

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

The Wiener Holocaust Library is pleased to host a panel presentation of new, cutting-edge research on the Holocaust in Hungary, in particular the role of transportation in accelerating the Final Solution there. Researchers will present their new findings on the deportation of Jews by train in Hungary in 1944, with specific focus on the train that left Debrecen, headed to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but that was diverted instead to Strasshof concentration camp in Vienna.

Hybrid Exhibition Talk – “I hope soon to get into a hospital”: Recruiting Jewish refugees into the British nursing profession, with Dr Jane Brooks

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Dr Jane Brooks will discuss the recruitment of Jewish refugee nurses to the UK, mapping the challenges and sometimes kindnesses many of these young women faced in trying to gain a place to train as a nurse and their ongoing bravery and determination to create a space of professional independence for themselves.

Exhibition event: Photography and Resistance, with Janina Struk

The Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, United Kingdom

Held as part of the Traces of Belsen Exhibition Event series. Struk’s exploration demonstrates not only the manifold reasons for photographing the crimes committed by the Nazis, but also the ways the images have – and continue to be – interpreted. She questions whether the ways in which we have engaged with them has honoured those who risked their lives to take and secure them.

Heritage Fund The Association of Jewish Refugees Federal Foreign Office

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