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The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) organises academic events in order to provide the broader public as well as an expert audience with regular insights into the most recent research results in the fields of Holocaust, genocide, and racism research. These events, some of which extend beyond academia in the stricter sense, take on different formats ranging from small lectures to the larger Simon Wiesenthal Lectures and from workshops addressing an expert audience to larger international conferences and the Simon Wiesenthal Conferences. This reflects the institute’s wide range of activities.

 

The range of events further extends to the presentation of selected new publications on the institute’s topics of interest, interventions in the public space, the film series VWI Visuals, and the fellows’ expert colloquia.

 

 

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Rivka Brot: Negotiating Justice. The "Legal Lives" of the Jewish DPs in the US-American Zone, Germany, 1945-1950
   

Friday, 24. May 2019, 15:00 - 16:30

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, 3rd Floor

 

Canvas The lecture addresses the role of law for survivors of genocide and mass atrocities living in refugee camps. The Jewish displaced persons (DPs) established a bottom-up fascinating legal and judiciary system, comprised of four different types of courts that encompassed every aspect of their lives as individuals and a community.
The lecture suggests understanding the law not only as a means of maintaining law and order in the camps but also, and not less important, as a means of both reconstructing personal and communal agency. The lecture also demonstrates the use of law as a means to turn the Jews from a group of helpless survivor victims to a politically-charged community.
This understudied historical-legal story, as the lecture shows, serves as a reminder to both the strength of the community and the importance of its law as an independent instrument.

Rivka Brot is a lecturer at the Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University. She has authored various articles relating to legal aspects of the lives of the Jewish displaced persons in the US-American Zone of occupied Germany in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Her book, People in the Gray Zone: The Jewish Kapo on Trial (Hebrew), will be co-published by the Open University Publishing House, the David Berg Institute for Law and History (Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law) and The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism.

The event will be moderated by Philipp Rohrbach (VWI)

Organised in cooperation with the Department of Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna

Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Thursday, 23 May 2019, 6.00 pm and bring your ID.

In Kooperation mit dem Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Wien

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