Tuesday, 18 June 2024
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT
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Join our online discussion led by an esteemed panel who will speak about Jewish photographers - some professional, some amateur - who resisted Nazi dehumanization during the Holocaust by documenting the horrific actions of the Nazis and their collaborators. The photographers captured glimpses of the lives and responses of their fellow victims to Nazi brutality. The photographers' work is an invaluable source of historical evidence and an expression of their courage.
Speakers
Valerie Hébert is Professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Lakehead University Orillia, Ontario, where she teaches on modern European history, Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and the photography of human rights violations and international conflict. She has won fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Hebrew University, and the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has published on the Nuremberg Trials, Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals, the German resistance figure Kurt Gerstein, and Holocaust Photography. Her edited collection on the Šķēde beach execution photographs entitled: Framing the Holocaust: Photographs of a Mass Shooting in Latvia was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2023. She is currently working on a SSHRC Insight Grant funded monograph: Five Shots from Sdolbunow: Photographs of the Holocaust by Bullets, 1942 as well as editing a special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Holocaust Photography.
Christoph Kreutzmüller is a Berlin-based historian and curator. Currently he is co-head of the research programme Last Seen. Picturing Nazi Deportations. Among his publications is the acclaimed study on the so called Auschwitz Album: Die Fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens. Ein Album aus Auschwitz, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: 2020 (Un album d'Auschwitz Comment les nazis ont photographié leurs crimes, Paris: Le Seiul 2023). An English edition is underway. Dr. Kreutzmüller's latest publication is the journal article Staging a Boycott: Photographs of the Nazi Attack on Jewish-Owned Businesses in April 1933, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring 2024.
Daniel H. Magilow is Lindsay Young Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He serves on the Academic Council of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he was the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow in 2005-2006. His teaching and research, which have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Getty Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service, center on photography and film and their intersections with Holocaust Studies, Weimar Germany, and postwar memory. Alongside many articles, book chapters, and reviews focusing on photography, film, and memorials, he is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of six books, including Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction (Bloomsbury) and most recently, The Absolute Realist: Collected Writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1923–1967 (Getty Publications).
Janina Struk is a documentary photographer, a teacher, lecturer and writer. She is the author of the acclaimed book, Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence (2004), which presents a history and critique of images taken during the Holocaust, and Private Pictures: Soldiers’ Inside View of War (2011), a thought-provoking perspective of soldiers’ pictures that span the wars of the past hundred years. Her forthcoming book Photography and Resistance: Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe, will be published in Autumn 2024. It tells the stories of people who risked their lives to resist fascism in Europe by taking, smuggling or securing photographs and asks why photography warranted such a steadfast trust.