Fragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies and Commemoration

Date: 27 January 2025
Location: Elliot Room, Knowledge Centre
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm

Explore the ways the Holocaust has shaped memory, identity, and culture in Fragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies and Commemoration. The event brings together scholars, historians, and artists to examine the enduring impact of the Holocaust and the various methods used to preserve its legacy.

Through topics ranging from antisemitism in post-WWI Hungary, resistance to the Holocaust and its commemoration in postwar Poland, to Soviet representations of Holocaust events in film and contemporary counter-monument approaches, the programme offers insights into Holocaust memory and its enduring significance.

Programme:

Antisemitic versus Jewish Humour in Budapest Post-WWI
Prof. Dr Béla Bodó, Department of East-European History, University of Bonn

The Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
Dr Halik Kochanski, Writer and Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

‘The grave […] has been planted over with potatoes’: Transnational Jewish Fight to Commemorate Holocaust Killing Sites in Poland in the First Postwar Decades
Dr Janek Gryta, Lecturer in Holocaust History, University of Southampton

Representations of the Holocaust in Soviet Cinema
Prof. Jeremy Hicks, Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London

There and Not There: (Im)Possibility of a Monument
Paulina Pukyte, Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer, Curator, and Critic

Poetics of the Archive in Marianne Rubinstein’s ‘C'est maintenant du passé’ and Ivan Jablonka’s ‘Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus’
Dr Diane Otosaka, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature, University of Leeds

Tickets: Free, booking required

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Photo credit : Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian Jews, May 1944 (Detail). This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany license, with attribution to Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.