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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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Gergely Kunt: The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis. The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950), CEU Press, Budapest 2022
   

Tuesday, 7. March 2023, 18:00 - 20:00

Bookshop Singer am Rabensteig 3, 1010 Wien

 

CEU Press, CEU Jewish Studies Program and Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invite to the discussion and book launch of ”The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis. The History and Memory of a Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans (1945–1950)”.

Gaudiopolis (The City of Joy) was a pedagogical experiment that operated in a post–World War II orphanage in Budapest. The book tells the story of this children’s republic that sought to heal the wounds of wartime trauma, address prejudice and expose the children to a firsthand experience of democracy.

 

Discussion
Gergely Kunt: Author, Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies
Michael L. Miller: Head of the Nationalism Studies Program at CEU and co-founder of its Jewish Studies program

Reception to follow

Gergely Kunt is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He is one of the founding members of the European Ego-Documents Archive and Collections Network (EDAC). He was European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies; Core Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University; Weickart Postdoctoral Fellow at Fritz Bauer Institut at University of Frankfurt am Main.

 

Organised by:
CEU Press, CEU Jewish Studies Program & Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

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By attending, you consent to the publication of photographs, video and audio recordings made during the event.

 

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