To understand both current and National Socialist varieties of anti-Semitism, it is necessary to understand the emergence of new forms of anti-Judaism in the nineteenth century. An investigation of the phenomenon in comparative and transnational perspective, which has been only rarely attempted, promises to provide new insights.

This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to forge new analytical perspectives on collaboration in Eastern Europe. Panels will address memory, trials, and the role of institutions such as the police, state administration, and press in the destruction of Jews and Roma in the Holocaust.

Holocaust survivor and famous writer, Elie Wiesel has became a central figure in the memory of the Holocaust and human rights defense. This conference will focus on the foundations of its work. This colloquium is supported by the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.

En 1972, la cour de justice de Hambourg acquitte Walter Becker, le lavant de l’accusation de crimes de guerre commis à l'encontre de la population juive du ghetto de Wierzbnik alors qu'il était chef de la police criminelle. Christopher R. Browning se penche alors sur les récits des survivants et les interrogatoires réalisés en vue du procès. Il s’attache à un objet historique relativement peu étudié pour lui-même faute de documentation, le camp-usine de travail forcé.

The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews - mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe - were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets.

Relatively protected by its rural isolation, the French region of Lot-et-Garonne became, during the Second World War, the refuge for a significant number of Jews, the large majority of whom escaped deportation. By synthesising an analysis of administrative documents with more than 300 testimonies given by both survivors and those who helped to save them, the reader is able not only to understand the relentless course of the persecution of the Jews, but also to appreciate the acts of brave individuals to save them. This work is available from Editions d'Albret (4, rue Mandrina 40180 Narrosse).