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Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, 7-9 January 2015: Day 3

Author: rcoll
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2015
Section: Research

In the afternoon session on the International Tracing Service, the panellists demonstrated the potential of this vast archive.

On the third and last day of the conference the themes ranged from visual testimonies, and repatriation and resettlement, to the legacy of the euthanasia programmes and medical experiments, and the uses of the International Tracing Service (ITS) digital collection.

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Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, 7-9 January 2015: Day 2

Author: amaguire
Date: Friday, January 9, 2015
Section: Research

The second day of the conference promised, and gave, a very full programme of 32 papers across nine panels. Papers touched on repatriation and resettlement, children, compensation, early testimonies, remembrance, displaced persons and forced labour.

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‘Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution’, 7 – 9 January 2015

Author: jmcarthur
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2015
Section: Research

Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, New York University presenting (right). Chair Suzanne Bardgett (left). The slide shows Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw.

Commentary on Day One. The opening plenary session of this conference focused on the world’s newest Jewish Museum - Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw.

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New slants on surviving Nazi persecution

Author: admin
Date: Monday, January 23, 2012
Section: Research

Professor David Cesarani (right) with Professor Paul Shapiro of USHMM at the Beyond camps and forced labour conference held at IWM London, 4-6 January 2012

On 4-6 January 2012, Imperial War Museum London hosted the fourth international conference in the Beyond camps and forced labour series. Professor David Cesarani of Royal Holloway, University of London, co-organiser of Beyond camps and forced labour guest blogs here about the key themes which emerged from the conference:

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Alicia Melamed Adams – art as memorial to a murdered family

Author: sbardgett
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011
Section: Research

Alicia Melamed Adams, The Parting, c 1963, Imperial War Museum IWM ART 17459

The Muswell Hill studio is flooded with sunlight and all around are paintings of flowers in radiant reds, yellows and blues. I have come to visit Alicia Melamed Adams, the Holocaust survivor whose paintings and whose story I wrote up as one of the chapters of Justice, Politics and Memory in Europe after the Second World War published this summer. We did the interviews in this studio a year ago, sifting through her old family photographs and going over the details of her family’s horrendous wartime ordeal.

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