Roundtable „Contested Memories: Antifascism, Jews and the Holocaust“

Thursday, October 19, 2023, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm The Budapest Jewish Studies Colloquium in cooperation with the CEU Democracy Institute, the CEU Jewish Studies Program and the Tom Lantos Institute cordially invites you to this roundtable discussion. Venue: Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Arany János utca 32, Budapest research room, or on Zoom. If you would like to attend, please register by October 18 here. Abstract This roundtable discussion explores the various ways the Holocaust was represented in Cold War Central Europe, considering major examples of official memory politics, exhibition histories, fine arts, and literature in the 1960s. Read more

Book Presentation by Bojan Aleksov (University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies)

Jewish Refugees in the Balkans, 1933-1945 The Balkans provided the escape route for tens of thousands of German, Austrian, Polish and Czechoslovak Jews, and remained a place of refuge until the Nazis brutally shut it off with the mass murder of Jewish refugees on the so/called Kladovo transport starting in September 1941, which can be considered as the beginning of the Holocaust in Europe. Read more
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