In-Person Conference, the University of Winchester, 18-19 July 2022 BAHS Online Conference, 20th July 2022 Both programmes can be accessed below. To register please click here bahs-programme-2022-1Download
Author: Elizabeth Kendrick
BAHS Postgraduate Conference 2022
On Monday 30th May 2022, we welcomed 40 postgraduate researchers, educators, and academics to the Taube Family Learning Centre at the Imperial War Museum London for the BAHS Postgraduate conference 2022. Each year, the conference brings together a range of academics from across the UK and abroad with a wide range of expertise and interests. … Continue reading BAHS Postgraduate Conference 2022
Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: Their Isolated Everyday Lives
Harry Legg is a recent MRes graduate of Royal Holloway and its Holocaust Research Institute. His interests centre around shedding light on the understudied plight of the non-Jewish individuals falsely labelled as ‘full Jews’ by the Nazis. He has a forthcoming paper coming out this summer with the Journal of Holocaust Research on this topic. … Continue reading Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: Their Isolated Everyday Lives
Poetry as Memorial: Poetic Markers in Ruth Klüger’s “Weiter leben: Eine Jugend”
Rosie Shackleton, she/her - I am a Bradfordian living and working in Scotland and have recently graduated with a MA joint honours in German and history from the University of Edinburgh. During my degree I specialised in memory history, especially the work of Robert Tischler, and the memorialisation of the Holocaust in Europe. I am currently … Continue reading Poetry as Memorial: Poetic Markers in Ruth Klüger’s “Weiter leben: Eine Jugend”
Online Talk – Holocaust Consciousness in Britain: A Response to the Claims Conference Survey
For the third event in the British Association for Holocaust Studies postgraduate events series, we will hear from Dr Andy Pearce from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education to discuss Holocaust Consciousness in Britain: A Response to the Claims Conference Survey. Released in November 2021, the Claims Conference survey found that the majority (52%) of all … Continue reading Online Talk – Holocaust Consciousness in Britain: A Response to the Claims Conference Survey
Viewing Human-Made Catastrophes Together: Discussing the Holocaust and the Climate Crisis Against the Backdrop of COP26
Dr David Tollerton (University of Exeter) Dr David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape published with Routledge in 2020. During 2019-20 he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for his work on Holocaust memory in Britain, and … Continue reading Viewing Human-Made Catastrophes Together: Discussing the Holocaust and the Climate Crisis Against the Backdrop of COP26
James Bulgin IWM Holocaust Galleries Talk
Thursday 18th November 6:00 – 7:00pm For the second event in our series, we are excited to announce that BAHS Postgraduate Representatives Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford) and Charlie Knight (University of Southampton) will be joined by James Bulgin (RHUL), Head of Content for the IWM Holocaust and Second World War Galleries, to discuss the … Continue reading James Bulgin IWM Holocaust Galleries Talk
Dr. Alex Kay Book Talk
Thursday 28th October 6:00 – 7:00pm BAHS Postgraduate Representatives Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford) and Charlie Knight (University of Southampton) will be joined by Dr Alex Kay to discuss his new book Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing. This book as been described as the first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing … Continue reading Dr. Alex Kay Book Talk
A Silent Battle: Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust
By Elisheva Joshua Elisheva Joshua is a current law student at BPP Law School who also holds a BA in English from King’s College London. Elisheva writes widely on topics relating to untold narratives during the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, the Holocaust as evil and literature and anti-Semitism. The millions of Jews killed by the Nazis … Continue reading A Silent Battle: Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust
Jews Were Murdered After the Holocaust as Well
Book review of Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, 333 pages. By Daniela Ozacky Stern With the end of WWII, hundreds of thousands of Jews remained in Europe. They had survived the Holocaust and now had to decide where and how to lead their new lives. Many decided … Continue reading Jews Were Murdered After the Holocaust as Well
The British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies 