Gedenkstätte Stille Helden

Starting
9:30 am

Arrival at the conference venue, registration

Lilly Maier (Munich): Rettung und Selbsthilfe als Widerstand: Jüdische Retterinnen in Frankreich während der Shoah (Rescue and self-help as resistance: Jewish women as rescuers in France during the Shoah)

Eleni Kouki (Athens): Hidden Jews in Greece during WW2, a critical rethinking

3:00 pm

Coffee break

3:30 pm

Panel 3: Fleeing Europe

Moderator: Martina Voigt

Rajendra Singh Thakur (Panchkula): Resistance to the persecution of Jews from a completely different region: India

Björn Siegel (Hamburg): “Man wollte doch von Ueberleben hoeren!” Die Aushandlungsprozesse deutscher Jüdinnen und Juden in den südamerikanischen (General-) Konsulaten von Hamburg – Erfahrungen und Erinnerungen (“But people wanted to hear about survival!” The negotiations of German Jews in the South American consulates (general) in Hamburg: Experience and Memories)

5:00 pm

Break

6:00 pm

Evening event, open to the public: Mary Fulbrook (London): Comparative European Perspectives on the Significance of Surrounding Societies for Survival
(in English with translation)
Moderator: Karoline Georg

following the event

Small reception

9:00 am

Tours in German and English

Options:

• Silent Heroes Memorial Center
  Stauffenbergstr. 13–14, 10785 Berlin, 3rd floor

• Museum: Otto Weidt’s Workshop for the Blind
  Rosenthaler Strasse 39, 10178 Berlin, first courtyard, left entrance

11:00 am

Coffee break

11:30 am

Panel 4: Assistance in Germany and Austria

Moderator: Peter Klein

Jutta Faehndrich (Leipzig) and Caroline Fries (Berlin): Saving Lives and Assets - Luise Meigat's International Smuggling Network

Brigitte Ungar-Klein (Vienna): “Wer hat Juden geholfen?” – Motive – Möglichkeiten – Folgen: Hilfestellung für Jüdinnen und Juden in Österreich 1938–1945 (“Who helped Jews?” Motives – Opportunities – Consequences: Assistance for Jews in Austria 1938–1945)

1:00 pm

Lunch break, snack

2:00 pm

Panel 5: Interaction between helpers and those they helped based on examples in Poland

Moderator: Klara Jackl

Kamil Kopera (Rzeszów): The End of Safe Haven: Consequences of Efforts to Aid Jews on the Escape Route from Poland to Hungary through the Bieszczady Mountains

Alicja Podbielska (Atlanta, GA): “She Rescued Me; Now It’s My Duty to Save Her”: Post-Liberation Relationships Between Survivors and Their Polish Helpers

3:30 pm

Coffee break

4:00 pm

Parallel panels

Room 2B

Panel 6a: Film treatment of resistance to the persecution of Jews

Moderator: Katja S. Baumgärtner

Nicolas Moll (Sarajevo): Makellose Helden und passive Opfer? Rettungswiderstand während der Shoah als Thema von Filmen in Europa und den USA von den 1940er Jahren bis heute (Flawless heroes and passive victims? Rescue as resistance during the Shoah as a subject of films in Europe and the United States from the 1940s to the present)

Brigitte Rigaux-Pirastru (Angers): Mythos Judenrettung in der DDR: Die offizielle Geschichtsschreibung im ostdeutschen Fernsehroman “Wege übers Land” (1968) (The mythos of rescuing Jews in East Germany (GDR): The official historiography in the East German TV miniseries Wege übers Land (Ways Across the Country, 1968))

Room 3B

Panel 6b: Ambivalence in dealing with helpers (in German without translation)

Moderator: Beate Kosmala

Julia Stucki (Bern): Akteur:innen, die Menschlichkeit vor Gesetzlichkeit stellten? Juristische Konsequenzen gegenüber Fluchthelfenden im Grenzkanton St. Gallen 1938–1944 (People whose actions placed humanity over legality? Legal consequences for escape helpers in the Swiss border canton of St. Gallen 1938–1944)

Gerd Kühling (Berlin): Verfolgtenverbände und „Unbesungene Helden“: Ernst Bruno Motzko und sein Kampf um „Wiedergutmachung“ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Persecutee Associations and “Unsung Heroes”: Ernst Bruno Motzko and his fight for Wiedergutmachung (compensation) in the Federal Republic of Germany)

Room 3C

Panel 6c: Photos as a documentary source (in English without translation)

Moderator: Alina Bothe

Signe Bergman Larsen (Copenhagen): Narratives of exile: A study of private family photo albums documenting Danish Jewish refugee experiences in Sweden 1943–1945

Franziska Zaugg (Fribourg): Fleeing to Albania – how Jewish refugees document their escape 1938/41–1946

5:30 pm

End of the day’s program

9:00 am

Panel 7: Educational approaches of European memorial sites

Moderator: Christine Müller-Botsch

Elisabeth Anschütz (Berlin): “Widerstand gegen die Judenverfolgung” als Thema der historisch-politischen Bildung: Das Seminar “Netzwerke der Hilfe” als Praxisbeispiel der Gedenkstätte Stille Helden (“Resistance to persecution of the Jews” as a subject of historical political education: The “Network of Helpers” seminar as an example of the work of the Silent Heroes Memorial Center)

Sara Ferrari (Nonantola): The young Jewish refugees of Villa Emma: A trust-based story

10:30 am

Coffee break

11:00 am

Panel 8: Musealization

Moderator: Irina Rebrova

Aliaksandr Nialiubau (Minsk): Jewish Museum in Minsk: Looking for the Righteous

Hikari Bun (Heidelberg): Reception of Sugihara Chiune in Japan: a national hero who helped the Jews

12:30 pm

Lunch break with snack

1:30 pm

Panel discussion: Memory culture and historical, political education changing over time

Moderator: Stephan Lehnstaedt

Zofia Wóycicka (Warsaw), Kobi Kabalek (State College, PA) and Melanie Carina Schmoll (Hamburg/Ramat Gan)

3:00 pm

Conference ends