Holocaust Research Institute

Hear Dr Rebecca Glasberg speak at the IHR on 16 March: ‘Who is more of a prisoner?’ Solidarity across colonial lines in Max Aub’s Diario de Djelfa (1944).

Link: shorturl.at/Srn9l

Exciting book talk on 25 March at the Wiener Holocaust Library. Alan Kramer in conversation with Professor Dan Stone about his new book, 'Concentration Camps: A Global History.'

See details: shorturl.at/pxDOF

Visit the Eldercide: Older Jews and the Holocaust exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library, London.

Link: shorturl.at/0Edor

There is still time to apply to our 10-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 2026.

Find out how to apply for the 2026 Summer Institute here: buff.ly/njVGnTE

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

There is still time to apply to our 10-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 2026.

Find out how to apply for the 2026 Summer Institute here: buff.ly/njVGnTE

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

Final Screening!

Tomorrow is the final screening of the HRI's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Film Series (12 February) with 'The Listener'.

Attendance is free. Register here: shorturl.at/0BJ1A

There is still time to apply to our 10-day residential Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization 2026.

Find out how to apply for the 2026 Summer Institute here: shorturl.at/NSeRD

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

Thank you to everyone who attended the second screening of the HRI film series, 'Bridging Generations', to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2026.

We screened '999: The Forgotten Girls', followed by an excellent Q&A with the film’s director, Heather Dune Macadam, chaired by Dr Simone Gigliotti.

There is still plenty of time left to apply for our biennial Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.

Find out more here: buff.ly/3wpm3ca

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

A film of deep research and vivid detail, '999: The Forgotten Girls' ensures that these women will no longer be a historical footnote.

The screening will be followed by a q&a with the film's director.

Find out more about the full film series here: buff.ly/Jcv2LGz

Rather than strictly focus on the suffering and death experienced by most of the girls, Heather Dune Macadam tells stories of a small group who survived against all odds, even under unimaginable conditions that lasted more than three gruelling years.

In March 1942, nearly 1,000 young Slovak Jewish women, mostly teenagers, told by their government that they were embarking on a volunteer work assignment, were instead illegally deported to Auschwitz on what was the first Jewish transport to the Nazi death camp.

Last chance to register!

The second screening of the HRI's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Film Series airs tomorrow (5 February) with '999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust'.

Attendance is free. Register here: buff.ly/cYsBbo9

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On 25 March 2026, the @hgrporg.bsky.social is delighted to host Professor Alan Kramer in conversation with Professor Dan Stone at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social about Professor Kramer’s new book: 'Concentration Camps: A Global History'.

Sign-up here: shorturl.at/EsLK3

Find out more about the full film series here: buff.ly/Jcv2LGz

The second screening of the HRI's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Film Series - 'Bridging Generations' - airs this Thursday (5 February) with '999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust'.

Attendance is free. Register here: buff.ly/cYsBbo9

@wienerlibrary.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who attended the first screening of the HRI's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Film Series - 'Bridging Generations' - on Thursday.

@wienerlibrary @hgrp_org

There is still plenty of time left to apply for our biennial Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.

Find out more here: buff.ly/3wpm3ca

Deadline for submissions: Friday 20 March 2026

The workshop will take place on 19 June 2026 at Senate House (London). Lewis and Bill welcome a wide range of papers and the deadline to submit an application is 15 February 2026.

Two weeks left to apply!

Two of our HRI doctoral students - Lewis Champion and Bill Edmonds - are inviting submissions from PGRs and ECRs for a workshop dedicated to exploring the methodologies used in micro- and macro-history within Holocaust and Nazi persecution studies.

Event happening this Friday (30 Jan 2026)!

Professor Dan Stone will be delivering a lecture at the National Army Museum (London), entitled ‘The Sorrows of Liberation: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath’.

Booking is free and you can attend either in person or online: shorturl.at/BqaPD

This film, along with the two others in the series, redefine cinematic expression through animation, archives and diaries. Following the screening, Dr Paris Chronakis and Dr Rebecca Glasberg will chair a q&a.

Find out more about the full film series here: buff.ly/Jcv2LGz

HRI Film Series Bridging Generations A story told with Adobe Express

Amidst extreme conditions, he bravely chronicled life within the camp through a secret diary. For seven decades, his diary remained locked away in a closet, concealed from the world, until after his passing.

Please join us in person to watch this important film which focuses on the story of Yosef Dadosh who, at the age of 20, was among 3,000 Jews sent from their homes in Benghazi to the Giado concentration camp nestled in the heart of the Libyan desert.

The first screening of the HRI's Holocaust Memorial Day Commemorative Film Series - 'Bridging Generations' - airs this Thursday (29 January) with 'Giado: Holocaust in the Desert'.

Attendance is free. Register here: forms.office.com/e/X8XvcF1Eaw

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Admission is free, but booking is essential. Book your tickets here: buff.ly/ENOlR06

Reading these objects against other forms of testimony, both visual and verbal, provokes significant methodological difficulties, but also offers the possibility of particularising and personalising an otherwise almost unimaginably enormous cataclysm in European history.

They tell us about where they were from and also where they imagined they were going. Exploring these possessions thus helps the historian to uncover the experience of dispossession almost in real time.

Visitors to Auschwitz today cannot help but be struck by the sheer range of objects brought there by the victims of the Holocaust. Ordinary and extraordinary, these things were carefully chosen and illustrate the lives of those subject to Nazi persecution.

Event happening tonight (Mon 26 Jan 2026)!

Professor Zoë Waxman will be giving this year's David Cesarani Memorial Lecture in a talk entitled, 'Packing for an unknown destination: possession and dispossession in the Holocaust'. 

Last chance to sign-up: buff.ly/tawG6Ph