We hope that 2024 started well for you. This is our 10th anniversary year, and we are planning many stimulating and thought provoking events and programs, and even two publications to celebrate this milestone.
On Friday, January 27, is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army in 1945. We commemorate this date as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Leading up to that day, we invite you to once again participate in #EVERYNAMECOUNTS.
The Arolsen Archives are working on the world’s most comprehensive online archive of the people who were persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists.
Join us for the third year in recording names and paths of persecution!
This involves transcribing the names and dates found in historical documents that have already been scanned to create a digital record of the data they contain. No specialist knowledge is needed – everyone can contribute.
The crowdsourcing website guides you through the archival documents and displays help texts to assist you. All project information is available in English and German, Spanish, Polish, and French. And please let us know about your experience!
Help digitize this evidence of Nazi crimes and become part of building the Largest Digital Memorial to the Victims of Nazism.
Please join us for the theatrical release of “VISHNIAC,” the long awaited documentary about the life of the renowned photographer Roman Vishniac, as told through the eyes of his daughter:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20
7:00 PM EST
”VISHNIAC”
Q&A with director LAURA BIALIS and executive producer NANCY SPIELBERG
QUAD CINEMA, New York
We also invite you to join us for two important virtual book talks, which focus on the interwar period, 1919-1933:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 ONLINE
12:00 PM EST
”THE NEW MAN AS MAN MACHINE”
A Book Talk by Author Eckhart Gillen, Berlin
Kliment Redko, Aufstand, 1924-25
Fifteen years after the great financial crisis of 2008, which shook the capitalist economic system in America and Europe to its foundations, the book “The New Man as Man Machine” presents, for the first time, the interrelationship of art and political economy in the Weimar Republic, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America during the interwar period. By taking a look back at the 1920s and 1930s, it attempts to better understand our own era and its well-founded fears with regard to globalization and a new global economic crisis.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 ONLINE
12:00 PM EST
”IN HITLER’S MUNICH:
JEWS, THE REVOLUTION, AND THE RISE OF NAZISM”
A Book Talk by Author Michael Brenner, Munich and Washington DC
Peaceful Bavarian Revolution, Theresienwiese, 1918. Unknown photographer
In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, which was led by many prominent Jewish politicians, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews with left-wing radicalism. Munich became a hotbed of right-wing extremism, with synagogues under attack and Jews physically assaulted in the streets. It was here that Adolf Hitler established the Nazi movement and developed his antisemitic ideas. This lecture provides a gripping account of how Bavaria’s capital city became the testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.
This month, it is also time to bid farewell to our exhibition “Emmy Rubensohn! Networker and Music Patron – from Leipzig to New York,” on view until January 14, 2024 at the GRASSI MUSEUMS in Leipzig (Germany).
If you are in Leipzig, please join us for the Finissage Concert on Sunday, January 14:
Until January 14, the exhibition “Emmy Rubensohn! Networker and Music Patron – from Leipzig to New York” allows a deeper exploration of the curiosity and creativity, passion, resilience and connectedness of Emmy Rubensohn, who revealed in a letter dated September 17, 1946, to Oskar Kokoschka: “Music has faithfully accompanied and always comforted me, through the great pain we have all suffered at the hands of fate, and the grief [we feel] for our dead and the victims.”
