Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

CONFERENCE: JUNE 7-8, 2006 THE LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) Institute for Contempory History at the University of Vienna (IfZ) International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)
Venue: IFK, Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Vienna The video recordings of the lectures are available on this Website! (Click next to the specific lecture title on [play video].) In order to promote the foundation of the new Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies two founding member institutions – the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies – organized an international conference dealing with major research issues in the field of Holocaust Studies. In particular the conference addressed Simon Wiesenthal’s 1966 memorandum to the Austrian Government, in which he identified the most important crimes of the Nazi regime as agenda for legal proceedings against Austrian perpetrators.
Conference languages: German and English.

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

9:20	Address of Welcome (German) Lutz Musner, Deputy Director of the IFK Friedrich Stadler, Chair of the IfZ Anton Pelinka, Chairman of the VWI Zur Idee eines Wiener Wiesenthal Instituts Bertrand Perz, Deputy Chairman of the VWI Introduction (German)
9:25 9:30

	Moderation: Bertrand Perz

9:40	David Bankier Antinazi Exiles’ Reactions to Antisemitism and the Holocaust

11:00	Coffee Break

11:30	Atina Grossmann Entangled Histories and Lost Memories. Jewish Survivors in Occupied Germany 1945–1949

12:30	Lunch Break

	Moderation: Hans Safrian

14:30	Isabel Heinemann Humangenetik und Regionalplanung statt Rasse und Raum: Die Rasseexperten der SS in der Nachkriegsgesellschaft

15:30	Christian Gerlach Das nationalsozialistische Österreich als 'extrem gewalttätige Gesellschaft'

16:30	Coffee Break

17:00	Peter Black Handlanger der Endlösung: Die Trawniki-Männer und die Aktion Reinhard 1941-1943

18:00	End


Thursday, June 8, 2006

	Moderation: Dirk Rupnow

9:30	Wlodzimierz Borodziej Die strafrechtliche Verfolgung der NS-Verbrechen in Polen, 1944–1956

10:30	Michael Wildt Die Strafverfolgung der Täter des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes im Nachkriegsdeutschland

11:30	Coffee Break

12:00	Omer Bartov Guilt and Accountability in the Postwar Courtroom: The Holocaust in Czortków and Buczacz, East Galicia, as Seen in West German Legal Discourse

13:00	Lunch Break

	Moderation: Lutz Musner

15:00	Tom Segev Simon Wiesenthal and the Holocaust Memory in Israel

16:00	Bertrand Perz Das Wiesenthal-Memorandum und die Frage nach der österreichischen Verantwortung für die NS-Verbrechen

17:00	Kaffeepause

17:30	Raul Hilberg und Walter Manoschek im Gespräch, Abschlussdiskussion

18:30	End

	Conception: Avshalom Hodik (Jewish Community Vienna), Lutz Musner (IFK, Vienna), Bertrand Perz (Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna), Ingo Zechner (Jewish Community Vienna)

CONFERENCE PHOTOS: JUNE 7, 2006

Wildmann & Rupnow	Stadler & Pelinka	Zechner & Garscha
Daniela Losenicky	Stadler & Musner & Pelinka	Auditorium
Bertrand Perz	David Bankier	David Bankier
Technik	Technik	Hilberg & Hodik
Atina Grossmann	Auditorium	Auditorium
Auditorium	Auditorium	Auditorium
Nittenberg & Grossmann	Atina Grossmann	Hans Safrian
Heinemann & Safrian	Heinemann & Safrian	Christian Gerlach
Gerlach & Safrian	Auditorium	Peter Black
Peter Black	Auditorium	Vocelka & Austraat & Mergili

CONFERENCE PHOTOS: JUNE 8, 2006

Wlodzimierz Borodziej	Rupnow & Borodziej	Auditorium
Rupnow & Wildt	Hodik & Gelbard	Rupnow & Bartov
Tom Segev	Musner & Segev	Auditorium
Manoschek & Hilberg	Manoschek & Hilberg	Manoschek & Hilberg
Walter Manoschek	Raul Hilberg	Raul Hilberg