People, Places and Holocaust Objects
Tuesday 7 October 17:00 until 18:00
Silverstone 309, University of Sussex
Speaker: Dr Shivaun Woolfson (University of Sussex)
Dr. Shivaun Woolfson travelled to Lithuania to trace her ancestry and discovered the story of a people. Holocaust Legacy in Post- Soviet Lithuania: People, Places and Objects, the wonderful new book she has written about her experience, uncovers the lives of a remarkable group of elderly Holocaust survivors against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal. She invites us to look through the lens of their stories and memories, their biographical objects and their ‘special’ places with deeply moving results. Incorporating psychology, anthropology and ethnography, the book has, at its core, a deeply spiritual approach which marks it out from conventional historical treatments of the subject. To launch the book, Shivaun will deliver a short presentation highlighting the remarkable histories of the individuals at the heart of her research, including slide-show, video clips and short readings from the text. This talk is for anyone interested in memory, object stories, and one of the defining histories of the twentieth century.
Please join us to celebrate the launch of this fascinating new book. The talk will be followed by drinks and nibbles in the Silverstone Building social space, top floor, University of Sussex.
All welcome. Booking not required.
Organised by the Centre for Life History & Life Writing Research and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies.
By: Diana Franklin
Last updated: Friday, 12 September 2014