OLDER JEWS
AND THE HOLOCAUST
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The symposium will take place on Monday 9 September, and you can register to attend in person or online.
During the Holocaust, older Jews were among the first to be targeted for death or deportation to killing centers. Some wrote about their experiences in diaries and letters, and information can be found in other documentation and post-war testimony. Still, little is known about how older Jews endured persecution, how they responded, and their survival strategies.
This symposium will explore new research on the experiences of the elderly during and after the Holocaust, preceding the publication of an edited volume on the same topic. Instead of focusing solely on their vulnerability and death, the speakers will discuss how older individuals lived through genocide and navigated its aftermath, as well as how others reacted to the needs of older Jews.
Introductory
and Closing Remarks/ panelists
Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
Joanna Sliwa, Historian and Administrator of the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies and the University Partnership in Holocaust Studies, Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
The program will be divided into four panels:
Panel I: Contexts of Persecution
Panel II: Older People and Migration
Panel III: Older Jews among the “Displaced”
Panel IV: Older Jews after the Holocaust
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. If you wish to view the program virtually, you will receive a YouTube link upon registration.
For more information, please contact calendar[at]ushmm.org.
We’re pleased to announce a public symposium at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, co-convened by the Conference on Jewish material Claims against Germany and EHRI partners the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Wiener Holocaust Library (London, UK).
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