{"id":34469,"date":"2023-02-14T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=34469"},"modified":"2023-02-14T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T18:36:37","slug":"virtual-symposium-a-nazi-killing-center-through-a-perpetrators-lens-the-sobibor-perpetrator-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=34469","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Symposium: A Nazi Killing Center through a Perpetrator\u2019s Lens: The Sobibor Perpetrator Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 1, 2023\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-organizers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bildungswerk Stanis\u0142aw Hantz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ludwigsburg Research Center, University of Stuttgart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Overview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sobibor Perpetrator Collection provides an unprecedented view into the operations of one of the five killing centers Nazi Germany established for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. Created by the Sobibor camp\u2019s deputy commandant, Johann Niemann, this large collection of recently discovered documents and photographs shows in new and vivid detail the topography of the killing center, which was located in German-occupied Poland and in operation from April 1942 until November 1943. The collection also illuminates interactions among the camp\u2019s SS staff and between the SS and auxiliary guards, as well as the role of women, including perpetrators\u2019 wives and local female civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject of a new book published by Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, <a href=\"https:\/\/iupress.org\/9780253064318\/from-euthanasia-to-sobibor\/\">From \u201cEuthanasia\u201d to Sobibor: An SS-Officer&#8217;s Photo Collection<\/a>, the Sobibor Perpetrator Collection opens new vistas on one of the most crucial chapters of the Holocaust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholars will present the new insights the collection affords into the workings of Sobibor and the wider networks of perpetrators that spanned the so-called Euthanasia Program, other concentration camps, and Operation Reinhard in the implementation of the Final Solution, and address the implications of the collection for research and teaching about the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This program will be held via Zoom and is free and open to the public. Please register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/online-calendar\/event\/mchsobsym0323x\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information on the collection is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/sobibor-perpetrators\">ushmm.org\/sobibor-perpetrators<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10am EST | 16h CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome and Opening Remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J\u00fcrgen Matth\u00e4us, Director, Applied Research, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tagan Engel, Granddaughter of Selma and Chaim Engel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Session I: Introduction to the Sobibor Perpetrator Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Anatol Steck, Senior Project Director, International Archival Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approaching the Sobibor Perpetrator Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin C\u00fcppers, Head, Ludwigsburg Research Center, University of Stuttgart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coworkers not Comrades: The Case of the Trawniki Men<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimberly Allar, Independent Scholar and <a href=\"http:\/\/ushmm.org\/allar\">2013\u201314 Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forgotten Places of the Holocaust: Be\u0142zec and Sobib\u00f3r in the Aftermath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steffen H\u00e4nschen, Staff&nbsp; Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanis\u0142aw Hantz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q&amp;A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:00 am EST | 17h CET&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11:15 am EST | 17h15 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Session II: The Sobibor Perpetrator Collection from the Perspectives of Perpetrators and Victims<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator: Patricia Heberer Rice, Senior Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presenters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was the humiliation that hurt us the most\u201d: The Deportation of Dutch Jews to Sobibor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katja Happe, Director, KZ-Gedenk- und Begegnungsst\u00e4tte Ladelund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sobibor Reflected in Testimony and Visual Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Lepper, International School for Holocaust Studies Yad Vashem, Representative of the German-speaking countries Section; Staff Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanis\u0142aw Hantz; and <a href=\"http:\/\/ushmm.org\/lepper\">Former Institute for Contemporary History-Munich Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Exchange Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Euthanasia, Aktion Reinhard, and Johann Niemann in the Sobibor Perpetrator Collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andreas Kahrs, Staff Scholar, Bildungswerk Stanis\u0142aw Hantz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Q&amp;A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing Remarks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Boehling, Director, David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close at 12:30 pm EST | 18h30 CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This symposium has been made possible by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Bildungswerk Stanis\u0142aw Hantz, and the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart. The publication of From \u201cEuthanasia\u201d to Sobibor: An SS-Officer&#8217;s Photo Collection has been made possible in part by the generous support of the Stichting Sobibor \/ Sobibor Foundation, Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizers thank Semyon Rosenfeld and Selma Engel for their invaluable contributions to&nbsp; the research on the Sobibor Perpetrator Collection. This program is dedicated to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US Holocaust Memorial Museum\u2019s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center\u2019s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies requires openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/node\/9669\/discussions\/12321278\/virtual-symposium-nazi-killing-center-through-perpetrators-lens\">https:\/\/networks.h-net.org\/node\/9669\/discussions\/12321278\/virtual-symposium-nazi-killing-center-through-perpetrators-lens<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-skupovi"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/header-hnet.png?fit=583%2C143&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52625,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625","url_meta":{"origin":34469,"position":0},"title":"Omer Bartov, \u201eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"23. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. 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