We are delighted to invite teachers from across Scotland to our free online CLPL workshop ‘Scotland and the Holocaust’, led by Dr Emily Smith, where we will explore a case study of young Jewish refugees who settled in Scotland. Find out more here: het.org.uk/lessons-from-a…

Do join us for a brilliant talk by Dr Waitman Wade Beorn, 'Recovering Janowska: A Concentration Camp in the Historical and Virtual World', FREE, on Zoom. Register:
sirmartingilbertlearningcentre.org/event/recoveri…  Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com 🟦)🇺🇦

17 May is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.

Today we are remembering all the LGBT people persecuted by the Nazis and stand with LGBT people around the world who continue to be targeted today.

#IDAHOBIT

Join Dr Tracy Craggs on 2 June 2024 for the launch of her latest book.

Dr Craggs made a promise to veterans of the 2nd Battalion to tell their story - her talk aims to bring to life the memories of some of the men who landed on Sword Beach on D-Day.

👉️ bit.ly/d-daytobremen

Christin Zühlke and I were interviewed for the New Books Network 📚 Genocide Studies Podcast regarding our volume “New Microhistorical Approaches to an Integrated History of the Holocaust”. Follow the link below to listen, or you can also find it on Spotify:

newbooksnetwork.com/new-microhisto…

📢📢📢 Our archive catalogue is now live! 

We’re delighted to share the first edition of our archive catalogue – available online via The National Archives. This is a key step in the development of our archive service.

Click here 👉️ discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/7d36…

On 22 May 2024, Dr Becky Jinks will be giving an online lecture for the Holocaust Centre North Holocaust Centre North on the subject of her recent Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership exhibition The Wiener Holocaust Library.

Book your free ticket here: buff.ly/4dE1z0I

irishhistoryshow.ie/67-irish-repub… Dr. Brian Hanley discusses his article for Irish Historical Studies about Anti - Semitism and the Post War World #irishhistory

On 22 May 2024, Dr Becky Jinks will be giving an online lecture for the Holocaust Centre North Holocaust Centre North on the subject of her recent Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library The Wiener Holocaust Library.

Book your free ticket here: buff.ly/4dE1z0I

We're excited to share the theme for #HolocaustMemorialDay 2025: For a Better Future, and launch our arts project: #80Candles for 80 Years.

Rob Rinder is working with us to raise awareness of this significant year - the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Here is the link to register for the BIAHS PGR conference:

All are welcome and please come along to listen to our interesting panels.
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#OTD in 1940, Joseph Kropinski was arrested by the Gestapo for publishing an underground newspaper, and sent to Auschwitz. During more than four years of imprisonment at the camp, he composed over one hundred songs and poems.
holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/d…

Today is #YomHaShoah , the date in the Jewish calendar for Jews around the world to mourn the loss of Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust

Today Jewish people will remember the 6 million who were murdered, and pay tribute to survivors and refugees bit.ly/3y1wyDr

Today is Yom HaShoah, the day the Jewish community comes together to remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered in the Holocaust. It falls on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

How do historians go about interviewing survivors of genocide? How do different contexts impact how survivors’ stories are shaped, retold and received?

Find out at our next #GenocidalCaptivity event, On Interviewing and Listening to Survivors.

Sign up: bit.ly/3uGfnGh

Appolinaire Kageruka was 24 years old, and working as a teacher, when the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began 30 years ago, in April 1994.

Here he speaks about how he hid from the killers, and witnessed the aftermath of the murder of thousands of people in a church.

📣 CFP for a special issue of Holocaust Studies: 'Creative Responses to Holocaust Materialities' edited by Dr Hannah Wilson Jay Prosser

Topics may include: production of creative works, materiality, art, creative engagement

1st August deadline for 300 word abstract! ⬇️

Exciting announcement 📣

Here is the programme for the BIAHS Postgraduate conference on the 29th of May at University of Winchester!

We look forward to welcoming all our brilliant speakers and will be releasing information on registering for the event soon.

We are delighted to invite Holocaust Studies students to apply for an excellent Jewish Digital Archives Discovery Workshop, taking place at Senate House, University of London on 6 June 2024. 

For more information and to apply, follow the link here: buff.ly/4b8ztbD

Our annual conference, taking place 4-5 July at University of Exeter, is *now open for registration*! Full details here, including a provisional programme: biahs.co.uk/conferences/. A keynote lecture on 'Holocaust Memory, Rwanda, and Genocide Prevention Today' comes from James Smith.