Lectures
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The “Red Orchestra” Anti-Nazi Group in Berlin, 1933-1942
ONLINE VA, United States
Film Screening and Discussion with Director Stefan Roloff, Berlin (Germany)Join film director Stefan Roloff in conversation with Rachel Stern about the The Red Orchestra, a Berlin-based resistance group that fought against the Nazis from 1933 to 1942. A special focus will be artist Rainer Küchenmeister (1926-2010), who became a painter while incarcerated at the age of sixteen, inspired by a fellow female inmate and resister who was later beheaded. After the war his work was shown at documenta among other venues. Between January 21 and 29, you can view The Red Orchestra on your home device. A link will be provided to all who register: REGISTER HERE WATCH THE TRAILER: The Red Orchestra (2003) is a documentary by Stefan Roloff about a Berlin-based anti-Nazi resistance group that operated during [...]
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Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos
ONLINE VA, United States
Book talk by Sven-Erik Rose, Davis, CAIn this book talk, author Sven-Erik Rose will speak about his study of literature written by Jewish authors while interned in Nazi ghettos. His book attends to how authors processed their horrific experiences through poetry and prose. Image above: Detail of book cover REGISTER HEREhttps://fritzaschersociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Unknown-1024x478.png 3 (of 9) tins containing the 1st Oyneg Shabes cache, buried Aug. 3, 1942 and unearthed Sept. 1946; and the 2 milk cans containing the 2nd cache, buried Feb. 1943 and recovered December 1950. This is the first study devoted to how little known but essential authors grappled with the destitution of ghetto existence by writing within, at the limits of, and against an array of literary scenarios, tropes, plot lines, and generic conventions, including those of nature lyric, modernist interior [...]
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The Third Generation.
ONLINE VA, United States
‘So are these the footsteps of my grandmother or my own?’
Presentation by Sabine Apostolo, Vienna (Austria)Curator Sabine Apostolo will give a virtual tour through the exhibition “The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory” that was shown at the Jewish Museum Vienna from September 2024 to March 2025 and just closed at the Jewish Museum Munich. Image above: Die Dritte Generation Titel, Zitat: Cécile Wajsbrot, Mémorial, Göttingen 2023, 87 © JMW / Drahtzieher Design & Kommunikation REGISTER HERE Eighty years after the Holocaust, the last eyewitnesses are dying. Their stories, but also their trauma, have been passed on to their children and grandchildren. While the Second Generation grew up as direct observers of their parents’ psychological and physical damage, the Third Generation can look with greater distance at the family histories, [...]
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