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International Research Workshop – Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices

Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

Participants in the workshop, June 3-7, 2018

Prof. Dan Michman, lecturing during the workshop

Prof. Dina Porat, lecturing during the workshop

Kateryna Budz, lecturing during the workshop

Wolfgang Schneider, lecturing during the workshop

Samuel Finkelman, lecturing during the workshop

Representatives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at the workshop: Natalya Lazar and Dr. Jürgen Matthäus

International Workshop for Young Scholars

The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at the International Institute of Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum held the joint workshop "Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices" on June 3-5, 2018 at Yad Vashem.

A group of 18 PhD students and young scholars who recently completed their PhDs from the United States, Germany, Switzerland, France, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Israel took part in the workshop.

Program of the conference

Sunday, 3 June 2018

10:00-10:30	Gathering
	Opening Remarks Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Arkadi Zeltser, Director of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Juergen Matthaeus, Director of Applied Research, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC Natalya Lazar, Program Manager, Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
10:30-12:30	Session 1
	Chair: Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Yanina Karpenkina, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow The Jews of Western Belorussia in 1939–1941: The Challenge of Sovietization Coffee break Franziska Exeler, University of Cambridge and Free University, Berlin Wartime Choices: Investigating Individual Agency and Local Relations in Nazi-Occupied Soviet Belorussia
12:30-13:30	Lunch Break
13:30-15:45	Session 2
	Chair: Leonid Rein, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Tierre Sanford, University of Virginia Documentation, Publication, and Transmission: The Written Word as Resistance in Memoirs of the Minsk Ghetto Coffee break Sima Velkovich, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Materials on the Holocaust in the USSR in the Yad Vashem Archives
15:45-17:00	Work at Library and Archive

Monday, 4 June 2018

9:00-11:00	Session 3
	Chair: Naama Shik, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Meghann T. Pytka, Northwestern University and Southern Illinois University Sexual Violence in World War II Galicia Coffee break Nataliia Ivchyk, Rivne State University of Humanities Women's experiences during the Holocaust: Life and Survival in the Rivne Ghetto Coffee break Kateryna Budz, Independent Researcher, Kyiv The Fate of Rabbinical Families in L’viv: Rescue Initiatives of the Greek Catholic Church during the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia (1941–1944)
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Session 4
	Chair: Rob Rozet, Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries Pavlo Khudish, Uzhhorod National University “We Can’t Build Palestine in Our Richka Village”: Relations between Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Non-Jews in Transcarpathia Coffee break
14:00-17:00	Work at Library and Archive

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

9:00-11:00	Session 5
	Chair: Iael Nidam Orvieto, Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Wolfgang Schneider, PhD student, University of Heidelberg. 2017-2018 Edith Milman Fellow at the USHMM Soviet Trial Documents of Jewish Council Members As ‘Ego-documents’? Testing the Limits of Central Concepts Coffee break Eugenia Mihalcea, University of Haifa The Image of the Perpetrator in Jewish Romanian Survivors’ Testimonies: From German Beasts to Romanian Hitlerite
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-15:00	Visit to Museum
15:00-17:00	Work at Library and Archive

Wednesday, 6 June 2018

9:00-12:00	Session 6
	Chair: Dina Porat, Chief Historian, Yad Vashem; Tel Aviv University Janina Wurbs, University of Bern Hearing the Missing Heels - Sonic Traces in Poems, on the example of the Vilna Ghetto Coffee break Nikita Hock, University of Bern Making Sense(s) Through Sound: The Role of the Sonic in Eastern European Jewish Diaries Coffee break Raisa Ostapenko, Université Sorbonne Carved-out Spaces: Camouflaged Refuge in a Landscape of Persecution as Seen through Primary Testimony
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Session 7
	Chair: Lea Prais, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Akvilė Naudžiūnienė, Vilnius University Lithuanian Jews and Their Literary Auto-reflections Regarding the Holocaust and Its Presentation in Lithuanian School Curricula Coffee break Svetlana Amosova, The Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and The Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization “Sefer,” Moscow The Database of Interviews: Jewish Oral History in the Former Soviet Union Viewed through Fieldwork-to-Digital-Archive Perspective
15:00-17:00	Work at Library and Archive

Thursday, 7 June 2018

9:00-12:00	Session 8
	Chair: David Silberklang, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University Samuel Finkelman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia The Many Lives and Near Deaths of Perets Padison: A Study in Law and Mythmaking in Soviet Lithuania, 1952-1965 Coffee break Irina Rebrova, Technische Universität, Berlin Oral History Interviews in the Historical Perspective as a Source for Reconstructive Memory about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union: The Case of the North Caucasus Coffee break Yulia Oreshina, Georgian-American University, Tbilisi Ego-documents as Historical Sources for Research on Evacuation and Jewish Life in the Soviet Republics in the South Caucasus
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Session 9
	Chair: Daniel Romanovsky, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Daria Starikashkina, Giessen University, Hesse Leningrad Jews Narrating the Siege: Study of Memory of the Blockade through Ego-documents
15:00-17:00	Work at Library and Archive

This program is made possible by a generous gift of Michael and Laura Mirilashvili to Yad Vashem’s Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and is supported by the Jones Day Foundation and in part by Ron and Deborah Feinstein at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.