HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE: JUNE 27 UNTIL JUNE 29, 2007 LABOUR AND EXTERMINATION
Under the auspices of: Federal President Heinz Fischer Venue: Grosser Saal AK-Bildungszentrum (training center of the Chamber of Labour of Vienna), Theresianumgasse 16-18, 1040 Vienna Videorecordings of the presentations and discussion are available here!
The topic of this conference are the interconnections between economic exploitation and racist-motivated mass extermination during the National Socialist regime that was primarily directed at Jews, Sinti and Roma, Soviet prisoners of war but partly also at political enemies and groups of people stigmatized as "antisocial" and "criminal". What were the relationships between "extermination through labour", the "extermination of so-called 'life unfit for work' and 'life unworthy of living'", "extermination as labour" and the victims' hope for "survival through labour"? Geographically, a special focus will be on the regions in Eastern Europe that were occupied by Nazi Germany.
Conference languages: German and English	Agenda

Wednesday, 27 June, 2007
19:00		Opening Evening
[play video]		Address of Welcome (in German) Johanna Ettl Deputy Director of the Chamber of Labour of Vienna
[play video]		Herbert Tumpel President of the Chamber of Labour of Vienna
[play video]		Anton Pelinka Chairman of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
[play video]		Charlotte Knobloch President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Vice President of the European Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress
		Conference Opening (in German)
[play video]		Secretary of State Heidrun Silhavy
[play video]		Introduction and Moderation (in German) Bertrand Perz
[play video]		Opening Lecture Ulrich Herbert "Arbeit und Vernichtung": Über Konvergenzen und Widersprüche nationalsozialistischer Politik (in German)
Thursday, 28 June, 2007
		Moderation: Johanna Gehmacher
10:00 [play video]		Dieter Pohl Judenverfolgung und Zwangsarbeit im besetzten Osteuropa (in German)
11:00		Elizabeth Harvey ‘Womanly work’ in Nazi-occupied Poland: gender, labour and Germanization (in English)
[play video]
12:00		Lunch Break
		Moderation: Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
14:00		Patricia Heberer ‘Arbeitsfähigkeit’ and the ‘Euthanasia’ Action (in English)
[play video]
15:00		Florian Freund Roma, Sinti, „Zigeuner“: Ausgrenzung, Zwangsarbeit und Vernichtung (in German)
[play video]
16:00		Coffee Break
		Moderation: Gerhard Botz
16:30		Manfred Grieger Industrie und Holocaust: Zwangsarbeit und „Vernutzung“ in der deutschen Rüstungswirtschaft (in German)
[play video]
17:30		Harald Welzer Tötungsarbeit (in German)
[play video]
18:30		End
Friday 29 June, 2007
		Moderation: Hans Safrian
10:00		Christian Streit Die Arbeitsausbeutung und Massentötung sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener (in German)
[play video]
11:00		Peter Klein Ausbeutung und Vernichtung im nationalsozialistisch besetzten Lettland (in German)
[play video]
12:00		Lunch Break
		Moderation: Karl Stuhlpfarrer
14:00		Gustavo Corni Zwangsarbeit in den osteuropäischen Ghettos aus der Sicht der Opfer (in German)
[play video]
14:45		Andrea Löw „Unser einziger Weg ist Arbeit“: Zwangsarbeit und Überlebensstrategien im Ghetto am Beispiel Łódź (in German)
[play video]
15:15		Discussion: Gustavo Corni and Andrea Löw (in German)
[play video]
16:00		Coffee Break
16:30		Eleonore Lappin Zwangsarbeit und Todesmärsche ungarischer Jüdinnen und Juden in Österreich (in German)
[play video]
		Moderation: Siegfried Mattl
17:30		Frank Stern Jiskor – Visuelle Erinnerungen im Spielfilm seit 1944 (in German)
[play video]
19:00		End of Conference
		Conception: Bertrand Perz (Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Venna), Ingo Zechner (Jewish Community VIenna)
		Overall Project Management : Brigitte Pellar und Sabine Lichtenberger, Institut zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Gewerkschaften und Arbeiterkammern in der AK Wien (Institut für Gewerkschafts- und AK-Geschichte). phone: +43-1-501 65-2393, cellphone: +43-664-501 83 15
		Organization: Institut für Gewerkschafts- und AK-Geschichte (AK Wien), section.a art.design.consulting
		In cooperation with:

Herbert Tumpel	Anton Pelinka	Charlotte Knobloch
Heidrun Silhavy	Bertrand Perz	Ulrich Herbert
Harald Welzer	Christian Streit, Hans Safrian	Auditorium
Technik	Technik	Technik
Technik	Peter Klein	Gustavo Corni
Andrea Löw	Konferenz	Podium