Gedenkstätte Stille Helden: Videos

Conference Videos

Here you can access the videos of the conference talks from the international conference “Resistance to Persecution of the Jews as a European Subject – Research, Remembrance, and Musealization” that was held in the German Resistance Memorial Center, March 19–21, 2025.

A simultaneous interpretation into English is available for talks held in German.

March 19, 2025

Introduction

Karoline Georg (Berlin)

Der Widerstand gegen die nationalsozialistische Judenverfolgung – Perspektiven aus Forschung und Bildung (Resistance to the National Socialist persecution of the Jews: Perspectives from research and education)

Panel 1: Resistance by Jews

Moderator: Uta Fröhlich

Wolf Gruner (Los Angeles)

Ida Schneider, Hans Oppenheimer und viele andere: Individueller jüdischer Widerstand gegen die NS-Verfolgung in Deutschland, Österreich und dem Protektorat (Ida Schneider, Hans Oppenheimer, and many others: Individual Jewish resistance to Nazi Persecution in Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate)

Markus Roth (Frankfurt am Main)

In letzter Minute? Attacken von Jüdinnen und Juden gegen ihre Mörder – Hergang und Wirkung (At the last minute? Jews who attacked their murderers: Course of events and impact)

Panel 2: Leeway for action by Jews

Moderator: Sara Berger

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)

(not yet available)

Eleni Kouki (Athens)

Hidden Jews in Greece during WW2, a critical rethinking

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)

Evening event, open to the public

Moderator: Karoline Georg

Mary Fulbrook (London)

Comparative European Perspectives on the Significance of Surrounding Societies for Survival

March 20, 2025

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)

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

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))

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

Gerd Kühling (Berlin)

Verfolgtenverbände und „Unbesungene Helden“: Ernst Bruno Motzko und sein Kampf um „Wiedergutmachung“ in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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

March 21, 2025

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

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

Panel discussion

Moderator: Stephan Lehnstaedt

Zofia Wóycicka (Warschau)
Kobi Kabalek (State College)
Melanie Carina Schmoll (Hamburg / Ramat Gan)

Memory culture and historical, political education changing over time

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