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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.
Sunday, 3 June 2018
10:00-10:30 |
Gathering |
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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 |
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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 |
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15:45-17:00 |
Work at Library and Archive |
Monday, 4 June 2018
9:00-11:00 |
Session 3 |
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Chair: Naama Shik, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Meghann T. Pytka, Northwestern University and Southern Illinois University Coffee break Nataliia Ivchyk, Rivne State University of Humanities Coffee break Kateryna Budz, Independent Researcher, Kyiv |
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 Coffee break |
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14:00-17:00 | Work at Library and Archive |
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
9:00-11:00 |
Session 5 |
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Chair: Iael Nidam Orvieto, Director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem Coffee break Eugenia Mihalcea, University of Haifa |
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 |
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Chair: Dina Porat, Chief Historian, Yad Vashem; Tel Aviv University Coffee break Nikita Hock, University of Bern Coffee break Raisa Ostapenko, Université Sorbonne |
12:00-13:00 |
Lunch Break |
13:00-14:00 | Session 7 |
Chair: Lea Prais, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem 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 |
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15:00-17:00 | Work at Library and Archive |
Thursday, 7 June 2018
9:00-12:00 |
Session 8 |
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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 Coffee break Irina Rebrova, Technische Universität, Berlin Coffee break Yulia Oreshina, Georgian-American University, Tbilisi |
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 |
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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.
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