Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI)

Atina Grossmann, Prof. Ph.D., is Professor of History. Teaches modern European and German history as well as gender studies and feminist theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Cooper Union, New York. Faculty Associate, Remarque Institute for European Studies, New York University. Currently working on Jewish DPs and human rights in postwar Germany and beginning a project on “Provincial Cosmopolitans: German-Jewish Family Stories”. Ph.D. History, Rutgers University, 1984. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton N.J., School of Social Science, Princeton, Visiting Member 1997-1998. American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2001-2002. National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2001-2002. Anna Maria Kellen Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Spring 2002. Remarque Institute, NYU, Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall 2002. German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, 2001-2002 (for Fall 2002). Visiting Scholar, Bucerius Institute for German Studies, University of Haifa, Fall 2005

TAGUNG: 7.–8. JUNI 2006 THE LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Veranstaltungsort: IFK, Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Wien Dieser Vortrag wurde live auf dieser Website übertragen und ist im Videoarchiv abrufbar. Klicken Sie auf das Bild!

Mittwoch, 7. Juni, 11:30 Uhr

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

In 1933, at the beginning of the National Socialist regime, Germany counted approximately 500,000 Jews. In 1946/47, over a quarter of a million Jews were gathered in Germany, most of them in the American zone. About 15,000 were German Jews, of whom almost half were in Berlin. The majority were Eastern European Jewish “displaced persons” of whom only a minority were survivors of Nazi camps. The largest cohort, by a substantial margin, - and the least studied - comprised perhaps 200,000 Jews who had been repatriated to Poland from their difficult but life-saving refuge in the Soviet Union and then fled again, from postwar Polish anti-Semitism. Despite the enormous amount of sources and significant prior scholarship, historians are just beginning to focus on the social and gender history of the highly diverse population that constituted the She’erit Hapletah, the surviving remnant of European Jewry gathered in defeated Germany. The lecture addresses research areas that are neglected both in historiography and in current memory: the impact of the Soviet experience on definitions and memories of being a “survivor”, and the multiple encounters between Jews and Germans, as commonplace as they were complicated, simultaneously loaded with symbolic meaning and part of everyday life.


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Atina Grossmann, Prof. Ph.D., is Professor of History. Teaches modern European and German history as well as gender studies and feminist theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Cooper Union, New York. Faculty Associate, Remarque Institute for European Studies, New York University. Currently working on Jewish DPs and human rights in postwar Germany and beginning a project on “Provincial Cosmopolitans: German-Jewish Family Stories”. Ph.D. History, Rutgers University, 1984. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton N.J., School of Social Science, Princeton, Visiting Member 1997-1998. American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2001-2002. National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2001-2002. Anna Maria Kellen Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Spring 2002. Remarque Institute, NYU, Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall 2002. German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, 2001-2002 (for Fall 2002). Visiting Scholar, Bucerius Institute for German Studies, University of Haifa, Fall 2005 Recently completed book: Victims, Victors, and Survivors: Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied Germany 1945-1949 (Princeton, at press, 2007).