The keynote "Navigating the Labyrinth of Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies" will be given by Professor Eva Kovacs, acting Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. You can attend in person and online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...

Navigating the Labyrinth of Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies

What can personal accounts be used for in Holocaust research, and how?

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🚨 1 wk left to apply—2nd annual #HolocaustStudies Networking Day at the #IWM London! 🎉 Confirmed speakers: Sue Vice (Sheffield) Barry Langford (RHUL) Claire Le Foll (Soton) Anna Koch (UCL) Andy Pearce (UCL) Bea Lewkowicz OBE (AJR) Barbara Warnock (Wiener) Hannah Wilson (UoMan) Olivia Murphy (IWM)

📣New blog post: The ‘Deaf Kindertransport’: Emerging Research on Dr Felix Reich @charlieknight.bsky.social explores how attention to disability and migration reveals the extreme pressures refugees faced and the strategies they developed to navigate them. Read here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-cen...

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CFP Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026) Deadline: 31 December 2025 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

CFP: Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents

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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026 We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton! Please share!!

The next episode of Series 2 of 'Glimpses of German History' is OUT NOW! In this episode, Anne Buckley (Leeds) takes us to a field in Skipton, North Yorkshire which housed a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. youtu.be/WDqGQw7TY5w 1/2

Episode 1 of Series 2 of our documentary series 'Glimpses of German History' is now available on YouTube! In this episode @sandralipner.bsky.social shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in post-war Germany.

Glimpses of German History S2E1: Denazification Questionnaire

In the first episode of Glimpses of German History Season 2, Sandra Lipner shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in postwar Germany. The questionnaire was intended by the occupying Allies to categorise people in terms of their previous in

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📽️ Season 2 of 'Glimpses of German History', coming soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFin...

Glimpses of German History Season 2: Trailer

YouTube video by German History Society

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I'm very pleased to be joining the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London next month as the 2025-26 Bithell Visiting Fellow in German Studies! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/people/charl...

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Charlie Knight is the 2025-26 Bithell Visiting Fellow at the ILCS.

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The HRC is a team of scholars who work in a variety of disciplines across the field of Holocaust Studies. We have expertise that ranges across histories, theories, & languages. Read more about the HRC & our services here: holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/about/

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We are a team of scholars who have come together to deliver assistance to individuals, families, students, academics, and organizations for Holocaust research, education, and public engagement. We …

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The deadline for the German History Society's Undergraduate Essay Prize is NEXT WEEK! Do you have an outstanding dissertation to submit? Check out our website for more details! www.germanhistorysoc...

Fascinating talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social this evening on Tony Kushner’s @parkesinstitute.bsky.social new book ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ with @manchesterup.bsky.social

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis on German-Jewish letters sent during the Holocaust. Thank you to my fantastic supervisors Joachim and Tony at the @parkesinstitute.bsky.social - and to everyone who has shared their stories and knowledge with me over the last four years - now the viva....

Our team of experts offer a wide range of services to support families, scholars, independent researchers, & educators in #Holocaust research & education. Read more about our services here: holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/services/

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A major thank you to everyone who attended and supported the #HolocaustStudies networking event at the #IWM last week… What a fantastic day fostering community and supporting young researchers. We hope to make this an annual event so look out for future calls for participants! 📣

Very excited to be a part of this new adventure with @caileedavis.bsky.social @barnabasbalint.bsky.social @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social keep an eye out for more updates coming soon - give us a follow too ⬇️

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The Holocaust Research Consultancy is excited to launch our new website holocaustresearchconsultancy.org! Meet our researchers, learn about what we do, and contact us if you’d like to work together!

Fantastic conference at the Indiana University Gateway in Berlin on the place of German Jewish History in the Holocaust. Fascinating papers all round. Thanks to @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social for organising

This event is TONIGHT at 6pm! It was a pleasure to help @anoushka-ar.bsky.social with this project and I'm happy to now chair the launch of the digital exhibition. Details below 🔽

Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument... @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social

My fab supervisor Tony Kushner has a new book out - The Jewish Pedlar - with @manchesterup.bsky.social. There's a book launch in Southampton on 4 June @octoberbooks.bsky.social and also a talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 25 June

University of Southampton@unisouthampton.bsky.social · last yr.

The untold story of a gruesome 18th century triple murder in Sussex is examined for the first time. In a new book by Professor Tony Kushner, ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ tells the story of Jacob Harris. Launching June 4, find out more 👉 https://octoberbooks.lemonbooking.com/events/93/details

Our final event of the year is a double bill with @llampertweissig.bsky.social talking about her recent 'Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew' & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social launching her digital travelling exhibition 🎟️ May 27th 6pm, online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...

The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching! Check out the following 🧵 for more details: 1/6

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse!' - hugely privileged to be supervised by Professors Devorah Baum and @clairelefoll.bsky.social and to have the wonderful @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as my academic home! Thanks to many others who supported along the way… 🦋

@parkesinstitute.bsky.social hosted a screening of Jessie Eisenberg’s #ARealPain — it’s a lovely example of 3rd Gen #Holocaust representation. Go see it if you haven’t! Really enjoyed the fantastic discussion w/ EmilyRose Baker, Tony Kushner, & Janek Gryta, moderated by @charlieknight.bsky.social

🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨 The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025 The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025. For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc... #GermanHistSoc2025

We're very pleased to announce that Anoushka Alexander-Rose's (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) exhibition will stay with us at the GHIL for a while longer! It reframes the Wandering Jew from its origins in medieval Christian myth and presents how the legend has evolved across time and cultures. 👇

German Historical Institute London@ghilondon.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 New exhibition! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is delighted to host ‘The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition’ curated by Anoushka Alexander-Rose (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) from 6 January to 14 February 2025 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 5.30pm)! 1/8

Excited to chair this screening on Monday 😊

Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us next week for a special screening of Jesse Eisenberg's #ARealPain, winner of Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) at the 2025 #BAFTAs. 📅 February 24, 5:30 PM. 📍 Harbour Lights Picturehouse www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

📢 Next week, Parkes Outreach Fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social will give a talk at #LoveData25 on his work with the Theodor Hirschberg papers @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social The event is hybrid & open to all. 📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT) 📍 Highfield Campus & online More info 👇 library.soton.ac.uk/...

🎥 On Monday 24th February, we are holding a screening and roundtable event on Jesse Eisenberg’s 2025 film ’A Real Pain’ at Harbour Lights Picturehouse cinema in Southampton. 🔗 Book your tickets here: www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Tony Kushner's latest piece on the Holocaust, survivors' testimonies and rescue archaeology for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-holocaus...

The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses

Forms of ‘rescue archaeology’ are working to save the testimony of survivors before it is too late.

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Very happy to be giving a keynote lecture at Reading Council Chamber for HMD this year - I’ll be tracking a handful of German-Jewish refugee narratives alongside the ones of those they were forced to leave behind Book here: www.reading.gov.uk/leisure/thin...