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Panel II – Topographies: Intimate Spaces

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Panel II – Topographies: Intimate Spaces

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P.C. Hoofthuis, room 4.04, Amsterdam University, Spuistraat 134

10.00–10.45 Tiarra Maznick, Exploring the Toilet as a Site of Spatial and Sensory Inquiry in Auschwitz-Birkenau

10.45–11.30 Valentine Devulder, Topography of pregnancy and parturition in Ravensbrück (1944-1945)

CHAIR: Daan

MINUTES for Tiarra: Hannah

MINUTES for Valentine: Julie

11.30 Break

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Here's the travel guide with many ideas for cheap lunch & nice cafés in Utrecht and Amsterdam.

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Travel Guide Netherlands WS NS 2024_Final

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10.00–12.45 Arrival

Stayokay Centrum, Neude 5, 3512 AD Utrecht

13.00 Meet at ‘In De Ruimte’ for refreshments
'In De Ruimte,' Oudegracht 230 aan de Werf, 3511 NT Utrecht

13.30 Welcoming words and introductions

14.00–17.15 The Jewish history of Utrecht – introduction and walking tour with Els Boon and Talma Joachimsthal

MINUTES: Lauren

17.15 Icebreakers :)

18.00–19.30 Welcome dinner

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8.00–8.30 Breakfast

8.30 Meet in hostel lobby, walk to Utrecht University
Tielezaal, Room 1.25 (First Floor), Utrecht University Library City Centre, Drift 27, 3512 BR Utrecht

9.00 Welcome words by Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel

9.15 Introduction to workshop ethos

10.00–10.30 Coffee break

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PANEL I Defying the Gaze: Asymmetry of Perception

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PANEL I Defying the Gaze: Asymmetry of Perception

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10.30–11.15 Clara Dijkstra, 'Outstretched hands behind the barbed wire': Mutual Perceptions of Jews and Roma in French Internment Camps

11.15–12.00 Lara Raabe, Between an Antigypsy Gaze and Allyship. The Press Coverage of the Ernst-August König Trial

CHAIR: Hana

MINUTES for Clara: Kolja

MINUTES for Lara: Catharine

12.00-13.00 Lunch

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Panel II – Topographies: Gazing Across Landscapes

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Panel II – Topographies: Gazing Across Landscapes

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12.45–13.30 Aliisa Råmark, Gazing through Prisoner Art: Exploring Gaze within a Digitally Reconstructed Interactive Platform of Camp Westerbork

CHAIR: Corinna

MINUTES: Hana G.

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8.00–8.30 Breakfast

10.00 Stayokay hostel check out time

10.30 Optional meeting of the former and new Organising Team

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Panel I – Defying the Gaze: Confronting Stigmatisation

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Panel I – Defying the Gaze: Confronting Stigmatisation

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13.00 - 13.45 Hannah Sprute, Martyrs, Mothers, Heroines? ( Self-) Representations of Female Concentration Camp Survivors in France, 1945

13.45 - 14.30 Eva Hasel, Unveiling Silence: Reclaiming Lost Narratives of 'Asocial Adolescents

CHAIR: Julie

MINUTES for Hannah: Maelle

MINUTES for Eva: Noah

14.30 - 15.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 16.15 Coffe break

16.15–17.45 Keynote: Ido de Haan, The Camp as Institution, Instrument, and Metaphor: Polizeiliche Durchgangslager Westerbork in Context, Chair: Alexander Williams

MINUTES: Corinna

17.45–19.00 Dinner break (individual)

19.00–20.30   Reading and discussion of the graphic novel But I Live: Three Stories of Child
Survivors of the Holocaust, featuring Barbara Yelin (cartoonist) and Charlotte Schallié (Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria) Chair: Aliena

Sweelinckzaal, room 0.05, Utrecht University. Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht

MINUTES: Spenser

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Learn more about the Survivor Centred Visual Narrative Project

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Learn more about the Survivor Centred Visual Narrative Project

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The Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project proposes a new, arts-based way of gathering and commemorating the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, one that places survivors' well-being, agency, and cooperation at its centre. Our purpose is not to develop a blueprint for testimony collection but instead to restore agency to survivor narratives.

MORE ABOUT US →

We are committed to creating and upholding a collaborative space within the SCVN project. This means that although we celebrate the knowledge and skill that every individual brings to the project, we recognize the importance of placing each graphic novel, documentary film, exhibition, and lecture into the context of the broader SCVN community. When we speak of our work, we speak of everyone's work, because without this collaboration the project could not exist.

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The Pivotal Role of Community Liaisons in Survivor-Centred Work

On October 11, SCVN Media Director Raey Costain met with Ajnura Akbaš who is supporting the Yugoslav Wars Research Cluster as a community liaison. Ajnura works at the Muzej Ratnog Djetinjstva/War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, an institution focused on the stories of children who have experienced wars and their enduring impact worldwide. Ajnura spoke about [...]

Celebrating 'Emmie Arbel: The Colour of Memory' in the 2024 White Ravens Catalogue!

We are thrilled to announce that 'Emmie Arbel: The Colour of Memory' by Barbara Yelin has been selected for the prestigious 2024 White Ravens Catalogue! This incredible recognition highlights the book's thoughtful visual storytelling and profound exploration of memory and identity. The White Ravens Catalogue, published annually by the International Youth Library in Munich, showcases [...]

Enhancing High School Holocaust Education with Graphic Narratives

Teaching the Holocaust and other mass atrocities is one of the most important, yet challenging, responsibilities educators face. The weight of history, the complexity of events, and the emotional intensity surrounding the topic often leave teachers unsure of how best to approach it with their students. To support this challenge, Dr. Andrea Webb, co-director of [...]

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Home - Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives

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Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives is a new way of gathering and commemorating the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, one that places survivors' well-being, agency, and cooperation at its centre.

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But I live (A Film about Emmie Arbel and Barbara Yelin)

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8.30-9.00 Breakfast

9.10 Meet in the hostel lobby

9.20 Departure to Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork (walk to Utrecht Station, take the train to Assen, then Bus 22 to Hooghalen, followed by a 30-minute walk to the Westerbork Memorial)

12.30Welcoming words, introduction to Westerbork Memorial: Bas Kortholt

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13.30–14.00 Lunch

14.10           Bus to the former camp site

14.20–15.40 Walking tour of the former camp site with Bas Kortholt

MINUTES: Aliena

15.40           Bus back to the museum building

15.50–16.45 Visit to the exhibition

16.45 – 20.11 Departure to Utrecht (30-minute walk, bus to Assen, 45-minute break in Assen, train to Utrecht)

Free time

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Conference Report 2024- We need your Help!

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Conference Report 2024- We need your Help!

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We're looking for volunteers to write the conference report for the 27th Workshop

Minutes on all panels will be provided. The conference report is crucial for our reporting to donors and a great opportunity to practice this form of academic writing and get publish on HSozKult.

Find the link to the example of last year attached. Reach out to the orga team to volunteer!!

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Bodies and Borders. 26th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites

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The 26th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites, uniting emerging scholars of the field, focused on the categories of “Bodies and Borders”, exploring the topics in a variety of individual papers and panel discussions as well as by excursions to the former Łódź and Piotrków Trybunalski ghettos, to the Chełmno Death Camp and during a conversation with Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich MBE. The workshop took off with a walking keynote by ADAM SITAREK (Łódź) who introduced the participants to the history of the Łódź ghetto.

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Panel II – Topographies: Gazing Across Landscapes

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Panel II – Topographies: Gazing Across Landscapes

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12.00–12.45 Alison Curry, “What Will Happen to Everyone Will Happen to Me:” Witnessing Atrocity in the Jewish Cemeteries of Occupied Poland

CHAIR: Corinna

MINUTES for Alison: Lior

12.45–13.30 Lunch

13.30–14.30 Topographies Panel Discussion
Chair: Katarzyna Grzybowska

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14.30 Walk to the tour start point

St. Antoniesluis, opposite the Rembrandt House

15.00–17.00 Walking tour of the Jewish history of Amsterdam with Bart Wallet

MINUTES: Linda

17.00 Return to Amsterdam University

17.30–19.00 Keynote: Liesbeth van der Horst, Bystanders – Ways of Storytelling in the Dutch Resistance Museum, Chair: Lauren Fedewa

MINUTES: Alexandra

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How to select the new location, topic, and orga team?

Since 1994 the speakers and participants of the Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites decide collectively about the location, the topic, and the orga team of the next workshop.

This discussion usually begins during the first coffee break and continues into the final night. A formal decision is reached in a session before the farewell dinner, after the current orga team resigned.

This process is entirely up to the speakers and participants and part of the bottom-up, grass roots, democratic principles of the workshop.

Nevertheless, there are a few principles that developed over the years and have turned the workshop into what it is:

Anyone can join the workshop up to three times: once as a speaker, once as a participant, and once as a member of the orga team. The order is not fixed and you don’t have to join in consecutive workshops.

No one is allowed at the workshop, who submitted their PhD thesis before the application deadline.

The workshop is a non-hierarchical, democratic, and inclusive space. No form of discrimination is tolerated.

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The Resistance Museum is about the response of the civil Dutch population to the occupation by the dictatorial, racist Nazi-regime. Here you will find more information about the exhibitions and events you can visit.

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About the Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam 

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Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork: meer dan een herinnering. Hier wordt het verhaal over het leven van slachtoffers en overlevenden verteld.

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7.30–8.00 Breakfast and packing of own lunch

8.20 Meet in the hostel lobby for important preparatory remarks

8.30 Departure to Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort (walk to Utrecht Station, take the train to Amersfoort, then a bus and a short walk to the museum)

10.15        Welcoming words, introduction to Amersfoort, Floris van Dijk

10.30–12.00    Walking tour of the former camp site with Floris van Dijk

MINUTES: Alex

12.00–13.00     Time to explore the museum and former camp site on your own

13.00–14.15 Departure to Utrecht (take the bus to Amersfoort Centraal, then take a train to Utrecht, and walk to Utrecht University)

14.15–14.45 Coffee break

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Panel III – Arbitrary Entanglements: Local Dynamics

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Panel III – Arbitrary Entanglements: Local Dynamics

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14.45–15.30 Kolja Buchmeier, “Foreigners” and Germans in Wartime Brandenburg. Exploring the Local Dynamics of Exclusion around the Nazi Camps 1939–1944

15.30–16.15 Charlotte Trottier, “And when the next trek or the one after came… He sent him with it.” Locals’ Perceptions of Death Marches towards Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp and the Jewish DP-Camp after Liberation in 1945

16.15 Coffee break

CHAIR: Clara

MINUTES for Kolja: Valentine

MINUTES for Charlotte: Aliisa

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Panel III – Arbitrary Entanglements: Bureaucratic Encounters

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Panel III – Arbitrary Entanglements: Bureaucratic Encounters

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16.45–17.30 Catherine Aretakis, “What’s in a Name?”: List-making and Information Collecting  as an Act of Bureaucratic Violence during the Holocaust in the Provincial Netherlands

CHAIR: Jonathan

MINUTES for Catherine: Johanna

17.30–18.30 Arbitrary Entanglements Panel Discussion

Chair: Lauren Fedewa

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We would further like to provide you with a few suggestions…

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We would further like to provide you with a few suggestions…

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…for the location:

- which place would be academically stimulating?

- consider the costs of travel, accommodation and food

- consider where the workshop was in the last few years (2023: Lodz; 2022: Zagreb; 2020: Salzburg; 2018: Thessaloniki; 2017: Budapest)

…for the orga team:

- it is highly advisable to have a “local” (language barriers; logistics etc.)

- it is also useful to have a native English speaker and a native German speaker (you will need these languages to apply for funding)

…for the topic:

- it should be open enough, so that many people are eligible

- it should fit to the topics of participants who want to return as speakers

- in general it is good to get advice from people who have already been at the workshop before, this includes the current orga team. Talk with them during the week, get to know them, and engage!

- The whole group is responsible for this process. It is thus really important that no one leaves early and/or misses this final discussion, since it is an integral part of the workshop. You are all in this together! - Enjoy! ;)

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8:00–8.30 Breakfast and  packing of own lunch

8.30 Meet in the hostel lobby, walk to ‘In De Ruimte’

'In De Ruimte,' Oudegracht 230 aan de Werf, 3511 NT Utrecht

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Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort bewaart de herinnering aan het leed dat de gevangenen van het concentratiekamp moesten doorstaan tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

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Panel IV – Narrative Visualisations: Cultural Escapism as Empowerment

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Panel IV – Narrative Visualisations: Cultural Escapism as Empowerment

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9.00–9.45 Riti Banerjee, Death, Despair and Hope: Staging of Tagore’s Post Office in the Warsaw Ghetto

9.45–10.30 Jonathan Lanz, H.G. Wells in Birkenau: Writing Histories of Camp Life through Children’s Eyes

CHAIR: Lior

MINUTES for Riti: Alison

MINUTES for Jonathan: Lara

10.30–11.00 Coffee break

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Panel IV – Narrative Visualisations: Probing Lenses

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Panel IV – Narrative Visualisations: Probing Lenses

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11.00–11.45 Noah Krasman, “Beyond the Binary: Scenes of War and their Banality”

11.45–12.30 Alexandra Masgras, Mediated Encounters: Atrocity Photographs in Postwar Jewish Community Archives

CHAIR: Catharine

MINUTES Noah: Eva

Minutes Alexandra: Charlotte

12.30–13.30 Lunch

13.30–14.30 Narrative Visualisations Panel Discussion
Chair: Linda Dotterweich

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14.30 Closing remarks

15.00–19.00 Election of the new Organising Team, place and topic of the next workshop

The whole group is responsible for this process. It is thus really important that no one leaves early and/or misses this final discussion, since it is an integral part of the workshop. You are all in this together!

20.00 Farewell dinner

Restaurant Djakarta, Lucasbolwerk 19, 3512 EH Utrecht

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Feel free to share resources, literature and topics that came up during lectures and discussions!

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'In De Ruimte,' Oudegracht 230 aan de Werf, 3511 NT Utrecht

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'In De Ruimte,' Oudegracht 230 aan de Werf, 3511 NT Utrecht

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Please review our GDPR and Integrity Statement.

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Integrity and GDPR Statement 27th Workshop NS Camps

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Recommended Reading_WS NS Camps Utrecht 2024

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| Jan Burzlaff and Cristina Florea, Cornell University , Jewish Studies Program

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Call for Papers: The State and the Holocaust: Encounters, Interactions, Social Dynamics

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On behalf of the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University, we invite proposals for a forthcoming workshop on April 27-28, 2025, in Ithaca, NY, on the topic of the relationship between state authorities, Jews, and European societies during the Holocaust. The deadline for submission is November 10, 2024.

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https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20048180/europe-concentration-camps-expanded-camp-system-1944

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