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Seminár: Homecoming – Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941 – 1946
Event by: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV
Location: Ústredná knižnica Slovenskej akadémie vied, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, Bratislava
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Within the professional seminar of ÚESA SAS, v. v. i. we would like to invite you to the lecture, which will take place on Friday, October 25, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. in the ÚESA SAS meeting room at Klemensová 19 in Bratislava. Prof. will speak. PhDr. Kateřina Králová, PhD., M.A. from the Institute of International Studies, FSV, Charles University Prague, with the presentation of the book Homecoming – Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941 – 46.
The new publication traces the fate of Jews from Greece during and after World War II. It examines their survival in hiding, in combat, in exile and in Nazi camps and their subsequent difficult return to their homeland destroyed by the civil war. The author outlines the difficult decisions they had to make in the face of genocide and illuminates the moral, practical and emotional dilemmas faced by individuals, families and entire communities. Based on extensive archival research and analysis of personal testimonies, it offers new perspectives on the concepts of home, personal resilience and the memory of the Holocaust.
It will be possible to join the event online via the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4237922058?omn=88160211258
Kateřina Králová she is a professor of contemporary history and head of the Center for Memory Research. In her work she focuses on coming to terms with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, the Greek Civil War, post-war reconstruction and conflict-related migration.
Katarína Králová successfully graduated from Phillips University Marburg, received important international scholarships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, the Vienna Scholarship Wiesenthal Institute, USHMM scholarship and Fulbright scholarship at Yale University, and therefore carried out a significant part of her research abroad. In addition, in 2017 she received the Scientific Society Award for Scientists under 40 for her research achievements.
Among other things, she is one of the founders of the Herzl Center for Israel Studies at Charles University, the research cluster of the 4EU+ Alliance "Memory Plurality in Europe in a Global Perspective" , of the CENTRAL project "Institutionalization of memory in post-conflict societies" and is a leading member of COST-Action Slow Memory. In 2022, the Claims Conference supported her application for a Holocaust Education Partnership, which the UK was awarded. She is the author of numerous articles and collections in Czech, English, German and Greek, the book Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung: (Böhlau, 2016; BpB 2017), and her book Homecoming is currently being published. Holocaust Survivors and Greece 1941-1946 by Brandeis University Press.
You are warmly welcomed and welcomed!
The new publication traces the fate of Jews from Greece during and after World War II. It examines their survival in hiding, in combat, in exile and in Nazi camps and their subsequent difficult return to their homeland destroyed by the civil war. The author outlines the difficult decisions they had to make in the face of genocide and illuminates the moral, practical and emotional dilemmas faced by individuals, families and entire communities. Based on extensive archival research and analysis of personal testimonies, it offers new perspectives on the concepts of home, personal resilience and the memory of the Holocaust.
It will be possible to join the event online via the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4237922058?omn=88160211258
Kateřina Králová she is a professor of contemporary history and head of the Center for Memory Research. In her work she focuses on coming to terms with the Nazi past, the Holocaust, the Greek Civil War, post-war reconstruction and conflict-related migration.
Katarína Králová successfully graduated from Phillips University Marburg, received important international scholarships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, the Vienna Scholarship Wiesenthal Institute, USHMM scholarship and Fulbright scholarship at Yale University, and therefore carried out a significant part of her research abroad. In addition, in 2017 she received the Scientific Society Award for Scientists under 40 for her research achievements.
Among other things, she is one of the founders of the Herzl Center for Israel Studies at Charles University, the research cluster of the 4EU+ Alliance "Memory Plurality in Europe in a Global Perspective" , of the CENTRAL project "Institutionalization of memory in post-conflict societies" and is a leading member of COST-Action Slow Memory. In 2022, the Claims Conference supported her application for a Holocaust Education Partnership, which the UK was awarded. She is the author of numerous articles and collections in Czech, English, German and Greek, the book Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung: (Böhlau, 2016; BpB 2017), and her book Homecoming is currently being published. Holocaust Survivors and Greece 1941-1946 by Brandeis University Press.
You are warmly welcomed and welcomed!
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