Conference: Microhistories of the Holocaust and its European Character

An International Conference

Microhistories of the Holocaust and its European Character

THE ROLE OF LOCAL ARCHIVES IN IDENTIFYING AND SAFEGUARDING THE HOLOCAUST RECORD

27 April 2021

10:00-14:00 CET

Zoom platform

Participation at the event is free of charge, but registration is compulsory. Please use this form for registration. We will send you the Zoom link a couple of days before the conference.

The conference is organized in the frames of the project The Holocaust, European Values and Local History. Read more about the project on our website.

If you are an archivist, librarian, museum curator, historian, researcher, educator, policy maker, activist, or just interested in learning more about shaping of culture of Holocaust remembrance, and future of teaching and learning about the Holocaust – please register and join us on 27th April 2021!

Among expert speakers:

Dr. Haim Gertner

Director, International Relations Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
(former Head of the Archives Department at Yad Vashem)

Dr. Juliane Wetzel

Historian, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Wolfgang Schmutz

Educator, Facilitator and Curator, one of the initiators of the MemAct! Project, Linz, Austria

Dr. Milan Koljanin

Historian, former Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia

PROGRAM

OPENING

10:00 – 10:15

• Miško Stanišić, Director, Terraforming
OPENING AND HOUSEKEEPING (5 min)

• Dr Nebojša Kuzmanović, Director, Archives of Vojvodina
• Amb. Aleksandar Tasić, Head of Delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
WELCOMING SPEECHES (10 min)

PART 1: UNBOXING HISTORY

10:15 – 11:25

• Dr. Haim Gertner, Director, International Relations Division, Yad Vashem, Israel
(former Head of the Archives Department at Yad Vashem)
IDENTIFYING HOLOCAUST RECORD (30 min)

• Dr. Milan Koljanin, Historian, Serbia
A CASE STUDY: PUBLISHING HISTORICAL RECORDS (20 min)

• Miško Stanišić, Director, Terraforming, Serbia
“BREAKING INTO A GALLOP” – AN EDUCATIONAL GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT THE PERSECUTION AGAINST THE ROMA (20 min)

5 minutes break

PART 2: PROTECTING THE FACTS

11:30 – 12:40

• Dr. Juliane Wetzel, Historian, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin, Germany
IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING HOLOCAUST DISTORTION (30 min)

• Dr. Dóra Pataricza, Historian, Szeged Jewish Community, Hungary 
RECONSTRUCTING THE FATE OF HUNGARIAN AND BAČKA-SERBIAN VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST (20 min)

• Aleksandar Bursać, Archivist, Archives of Vojvodina, Serbia 
PUBLICATION: DEPORTATION OF THE JEWS OF BAČKA IN 1944 (20 min)

10 minutes coffee break

PART 3: THE PAST IN THE PRESENT

12:50 – 13:30

• Wolfgang Schmutz, Educator, Facilitator and Curator, Austria 
ACTIVE MEMORY AND PARTICIPATORY LEARNING (30 min)

• Monika Mazur Rafal, Director of the Foundation Humanity in Action Poland 
BREAK THE VICIOUS CIRCLE – ENGAGING YOUTH IN LOCAL HISTORY RESEARCH (20 min)

CONCLUSIONS

13:30 – 14:00

• Comments and reflections from the audience
• Coming activities in the project
Moderator Miško Stanišić, Terraforming 

Click to download the conference program (PDF)

The Archives of Vojvodina is our main partner in the project ”The Holocaust, European Values and Local History: Local Archives in the European Historical and Cultural Mosaic”. Find out more about all 16 partner organizations from Serbia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, as well as institutions and experts from other countries participating in the project.