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Quantifying the Holocaust: Classifying, Counting, Modeling: What Contribution to Holocaust History?
The development and discussion of quantitative investigation and analysis techniques are impacting and revitalizing numerous fields within historical research. How does this affect studies on the Holocaust? This international colloquium, organized by Claire Zalc, a research director at CNRS, and supported by the European Research Council (ERC), offers an opportunity to reflect on the potentials and challenges associated with various forms of quantification in this specific domain.
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Séminaire des boursiers de la Fondation - 2018
Depuis sa création, la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah a aidé 145 chercheurs. Elle a distribué 109 bourses doctorales, 24 bourses post-doctorales et 18 aides à la recherche. Une rencontre avec d'anciens boursiers de la FMS s'est tenue le 20 janvier à l'Institut historique allemand de Paris ; l'occasion de dresser un panorama du programme d'aide à la recherche de la Fondation.
A meeting with the Foundation’s grant recipients
Since its creation, the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah hasb helped 145 researchers. It has distributed 109 Doctoral scholarships, 24 postdoctoral fellowships, and 18 research grants. A meeting with former FMS scholarship recipients was held on took place on January 20th at the German Historical Institute in Paris; an opportunity to provide an overview of the Foundation's research support program.
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International colloquium - "The Photography of Persecution. Pictures of the Holocaust" - The American University of Paris
This international conference, organized by the "George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention" at the American University of Paris (AUP), aims to study photographs depicting the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe from 1933 to 1945.
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Rescue, Relief, and Resistance - Catherine Collomp
Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945 is the English translation of Catherine Collomp’s award-winning book on the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC). Formed in 1934 by the leaders of the Jewish Labor Movement, the JLC came to the forefront of American labor’s reaction to Nazism and antisemitism.
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The Last Ghetto. An Everyday History of Theresienstadt - Anna Hájková
Anna Hájková, a former fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, has published in an American edition the results of her research on the social history of the Thersienstadt camp between 1941 and 1945.
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Last Train to Auschwitz - Sarah Federman
In the immediate post-war period, the French National Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of heroism. However, recent debates have revealed the ways the SNCF was actively complicit in the deportation of 75,000 people. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected roles—perpetrator, victim, and hero—the company took on during the Shoah.
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La survie des Juifs en France, 1940-1944 - Jacques Semelin
How and why did 75% of Jews escape death in France under the Occupation, despite the Nazi extermination plan and the collaboration of the Vichy regime? Jacques Semelin takes a fresh look at the tactics of daily life that allowed the persecuted to escape roundups and deportations.
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Se souvenir de l'autre côté du rideau de fer
Examining communal, individuals and state efforts, from the Soviet Union to the US, from Hungary to France, this conference will provide opportunities to re-evaluate the commonalities, differences and entanglements between Eastern and Western memory of the Holocaust.
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The Future of Holocaust Research
Leading international Holocaust researchers will address the state of Holocaust research and its future on several panels over the course of this 2-day conference.