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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| Simon Wiesenthal Lecture | |||
| Edyta Gawron: Never Too Late to Remember, Never Too Late for Justice! Holocaust Research and Commemoration in Contemporary Poland | |||
Thursday, 2. May 2024, 18:30 - 20:00 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge, 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, 3rd Floor
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In 1994, Simon Wiesenthal received a doctorate honoris causa from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for his lifelong quest for justice – half a century after he had been, for a short time, prisoner of the local Nazi Concentration Camp (KL) Plaszow. The 1990s were the decade when the uncovering of formerly censored layers of history triggered a new approach in Holocaust research and commemoration in Poland: In a process both fascinating and painful, the Polish people became aware of aspects of the Holocaust and its aftermath that had not been discussed publicly before, including the involvement of the locals in the persecution of the Jews. On 15 March 2024, the KL Plaszow Museum opened its outdoor exhibition “KL Plaszow. A Site After, a Site Without”, which uncovers the topography of the camp. Drawing on recent trends in Holocaust historiography in Poland, the lecture presents and analyses this exhibition proving that it is never too late to remember and bring justice to the victims. Edyta Gawron is a historian in the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She specialises in the 20th century history of Jews in Poland, particularly in Krakow. Gawron is the co-author and co-editor of several books, including Nie tylko Kroke. Historia Żydów krakowskich (Kroke and Beyond. The History of Krakow’s Jews), Krakow 2022. Für eine Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung registrieren Sie sich bitte unter This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. bis 30. April 2024. Mit der Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung stimmen Sie der Veröffentlichung von Fotos, Video- und Audioaufzeichnungen zu, die im Rahmen der Veranstaltung entstehen.
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