Joe Chaplin from the Albert Sloman Library has written an in-depth blog post: Dive into History: Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day.Professor Lower stumbled across one such piece of evidence – a photograph documenting the shooting of a mother and her children and the men who killed them – and has crafted a forensically brilliant and moving study that brings the larger horror of the genocide into focus.įollowing the talk, Dr Joanna Rzepa from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and Co-Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Week Organising Committee was ‘in conversation’ with Professor Lower about her research for ‘ The Ravine’ and our audience had a chance to ask questions. The terrible mass shootings in Poland and Ukraine are often neglected in studies of the Holocaust because the perpetrators were meticulously careful to avoid leaving any evidence of their actions. >Our online ‘Words with…’ event was with acclaimed historian Professor Wendy Lower who talked about her book ‘ The Ravine’ which explores an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family during the Holocaust.
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Find out how to access the Amy Zahl Gottlieb Collection via the Library website. It also contains books on a range of historic topics, including several works on American immigration. The collection contains approximately 200 books relating to the Holocaust, Jewish history, and Anti-Semitism. She donated her personal library, and some 46 reels of microfilm, reproducing the Archives of the Central British Fund and the text of the Jewish Chronicle from 1937 to 1939, to the Albert Sloman Library in 2002.
For an overview of dates and events during the Holocaust, take a look at the Holocaust timeline in Padlet.For more information read the Library’s in-depth blog post: Dive into History: Commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day.Browse available books through the Library’s reading list and visit the display on the ground floor of the Albert Sloman Library.
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