A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
Salón de Actos. Facultad de Geografía e Historia (UCM), Madrid Wednesday 19 April 2017 Organiser: Jorge Marco, University of Bath Madrid was an international symbol of anti-fascist resistance during the 1930s and 1940s. The slogan “No pasarán” [They shall not pass], used during the siege of the city, became a universal reference. In fact, these…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Wednesday 28 September 2016, 6:30pm-8pm Ron Coleman The Library is pleased to host a lecture and discussion by EHRI Fellow Ron Coleman, a research librarian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, whose research interprets the American response to refugees who tried to escape…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Monday 5 September 2016, 6:30pm-8pm Portraits and memories is an ongoing and expanding exhibition and education program launched by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia (FJCS) that portrays the Jewish Community of Serbia and the wider territory of ex-Yugoslavia before the Holocaust. The…
Yaacov Falkov In the third week of August 1944, at about the time the insurrection in Paris was beginning, an unexpected dispatch in Morse code reached the London headquarters of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the British organization that conducted espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in Nazi-occupied Europe. Having been sent in English through previously unknown…
We are looking for contributors for an edited volume concerning how resistance leaders were perceived, constructed and/or combated by the British. Focus is not on the individuals themselves, but rather the reception of these figures from different perspectives (e.g. metropolitan culture, officials, media, military etc.) We particularly welcome papers concerning “enemies” during the ‘scramble for…
Department of History, Rutgers University 03.03.2017 – 04.03.2017 Worries abound about a return of fascism. Recently, the New York Times surveyed the growth of nationalist and authoritarian movements in Austria, Russia, Turkey and beyond, to proclaim a “growing debate over global fascism.” In February, a Polish magazine published a front cover showing a white woman…