Jewish archives are repositories of the heritage of the Holocaust. They serve as institutions of preservation and research as well as sites of remembrance. The first archival material created by Jewish communities or ghetto administrations under Nazi control during the time of persecution and annihilation are ambivalent sources, enforced by the perpetrators. At the same time Jews created clandestine reports as acts of resistance in the face of imminent destruction. Immediately after the liberation Jewish initiatives started to collect survivor testimonies. However, many Holocaust archives are not located in the countries where the persecution and murder of Jews was carried out but in the new home countries of refugees or survivors. Just as the Holocaust shapes contemporary Jewish identity, the frame of the society where the Holocaust archive is located also influences the interpretation of the Holocaust. The conference will explore how this effects the collection of materials as well as the very comprehension and interpretation of the Holocaust.
Besides traditional collections of written documents, photographs and artefacts, audio and audiovisual testimonies of survivors have become important sources for the research of the Holocaust and have helped to present it to a broader, also non-Jewish audience. In the latest turn, developments and possibilities involving digitisation and online archives have offered new forms of preserving and presenting archival material. The internet has created new globalised forms of accessibility and fosters new approaches for the local/national formation of Jewish identity – especially in post-communist Eastern Europe – and new perceptions and methods in the understanding and narration of the Holocaust in general.
In cooperation with the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Science and co-funded by the Rothschild-Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe.
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WEDNEDSDAY JUNE 19, 2013 - EVENING
Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv
1010 Wien, Minoritenplatz 1
Dachfoyer
KEYNOTE-ADDRESS
18:30
Tom SEGEV (Jerusalem)
Archives, Secrets and Politics in Israel
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013 – MORNING
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
1010 Wien, Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal
WELCOME ADDRESSES
9:00
Michael RÖSSNER (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
Béla RÁSKY (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien – VWI)
MORNING CHAIR
Heidemarie UHL (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
DOCUMENTING CATASROPHE AND RESCUE
9:10
Jonathan BRENT (YIVO, Institute for Jewish Research, New York)
YIVO: Collection Efforts 1925-1941
9:40
Ben BARKOW (The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide,London)
The Wiener Library: A Legacy of German Jewry
10:10
Rochelle RUBINSTEIN (Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem)
Holocaust-related material at the Central Zionist Archives
10:40 Discussion
11:10 Coffee Break
EARLY TESTIMONIES
11:30
Samuel D. KASSOW (Trinity College, Hartford)
"Collect Everything": Emanuel Ringelblum and His Secret Archive.
12:00
Alan ROSEN (Jerusalem)
Recording the Holocaust: David Boder’s 1946 DP Interviews and the Creation of Holocaust Archives
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013, AFTERNOON
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
1010 Wien, Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal
AFTERNOON CHAIR:
Ursula MINDLER (Andrássy Universität, Budapest)
JEWISH ADMINISTRATION DURING THE HOLOCAUST
14:30
Susanne USLU-PAUER (Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien)
The Archive of the Jewish Community of Vienna
15:00
Michal FRANKL (Židovské muzeum v Praze, Prague)
(Re)Constructing the Archive of the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto
15:30 Discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
DOCUMENTATION OF THE HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH POLITICS – THE EXAMPLE OF THE JEWISH WORLD CONGRESS
16:30
Mark A. LEWIS (College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
The World Jewish Congress Archives in the Holocaust Era: New Possibilities for Research
17:00
Attila GIDÓ (Institutul pentru studierea problemelor minorităţilor naţionale, Cluj-Napoca)
The 1946 Survey of the World Jewish Congress among the Romanian Holocaust Survivors
17:30 Discussion
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 - MORNING
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
1010 Wien, Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal
MORNING CHAIR:
Eleonore LAPPIN-EPPEL (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien)
NATIONAL MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
9:00
Tal BRUTTMANN (L´École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Centre de documentation juive contemporaine: From Open Source Intelligence to Archives
9:30
Rita HORVÁTH (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem)
The DEGOB Testimonies and the Question of Jewish Identity in Post-Holocaust Hungary, 1945-1946
10:00
Laura BRAZZO (Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, Milan)
Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre CDEC: From an Archive for Shoah History to Institute for the History of Italian Judaism
10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
11:30
Eleonora BERGMAN (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, Warsaw)
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw: Parallel, not Common. Jewish Post-War Documentation Projects
12:00
Yaakov BORUT (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem)
Yad Vashem Archive as an Archive of the Holocaust: New Developments and New Possibilities
12:30
Frank MECKLENBURG (Leo Baeck Institute, New York)
DigiBaeck – The Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in the Digital Age
13:00 Discussion
13:30 Lunch
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2013 - AFTERNOON
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
1010 Wien, Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2
Sitzungssaal
AFTERNOON CHAIR:
Béla RÁSKY (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien – VWI)
THE VOICES OF THE SURVIVORS
15:00
Joanne RUDOF (Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University, New Haven)
Holocaust Witness Accounts: History and Institutional Context
15:30
Katalin PÉCSI-POLLNER (Eszterház Egyesület, Budapest)
Different Narratives. Interviews in Israel with Surviving Women from the Hungarian Zionist Resistance Movement, 1944-45
16:00
Júlia VAJDA (Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest)
Totalitarianism and Holocaust. A Colleczion of 334 Digitally Recorded Life Stories
16: 30 Discussion
CONCLUDING REMARKS
17:00
Eleonore LAPPIN-EPPEL (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
Report: Wiener Zeitung
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