Events
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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The Holocaust Museum in Sweden and Holocaust Memorial Museums as Role Models for a Globalised Memory Culture | |||
Wednesday, 13. October 2021, 18:30 - 20:00 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge, 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, 3rd Floor
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Last year marked the 75th anniversary since the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It has also been twenty years since the first international forum on the Holocaust was organised in Stockholm, which led to the instigation both of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the Swedish authority Forum for Living History. Many survivors are today quite old and will soon not be able to tell about their experiences. At the same time, antisemitic tendencies and other forms of racism as well as a widespread dissemination of conspiracy theories and disinformation are growing stronger all over the world. As a result, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfvén has invited world leaders and organisations to a high-level summit in Malmö on 13 October to highlight remembrance of the Holocaust and the combatting of antisemitism in international cooperation. The ambition of the Government of Sweden is to strengthen the remembrance of the Holocaust, and it has therefore pledged to preserve and pass on the memory of the Holocaust by establishing a museum, which is set to open next year. Erika Aronowitsch, Forum for Living History in Stockholm: Ljiljana Radonić, Austrian Academy of Sciences: The event will be moderated by Gerhard Baumgartner (DÖW). Organized in cooperation with the Living History Forum, the Embassy of Sweden Vienna and the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)
Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Tuesday, 12 October 2021, 1.00 pm and bring your ID. Due to the Coronavirus regulations, in-person participation are limited and the proceedings will be streamed live online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81481601411 The 3-G rules will be in effect. To assure the safety of all participants, we kindly request that you wear a FFP2 mask throughout the entire event. Please bring a photo ID. By participating in this event, you agree to the publication of photos, videos, and audio recordings produced in the context of this event. |
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