“Good Citizens, Terrible Times: Community, Courage and Compliance in and beyond the Holocaust”

1^st workshop within the Bielefeld/UCL-Project “Good Citizens, Terrible Times: Community, Courage and Compliance in and beyond the Holocaust” (DFG/AHRC)

April 15-17, 2024, NIOD Amsterdam

3 pm Arrival

3-6 pm coffee & internal team meeting

8 pm: 3^rd Balzan Lecture: “The Problem of Bystanding in the Holocaust and the Postcolonial Challenge. A Conversation with Jephta Pattikawa (t.b.c.) and Remco Ensel” (t.b.c.), SPUI 25, Amsterdam

Moderators: Christina Morina & Martijn Eickhoff (t.b.c.)

8:30-10 am – Panel 1: The Dutch Bystander Debate revisited

Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Kunzel (Utrecht), Hinke Piersma (NIOD), Christina Morina

Commentator: Peter Romijn (Amsterdam)

Chair: Mary Fulbrook (London)

Coffee break

10:30-12 am – Panel 2: Comparing (and Bridging) Eastern and Western Europe

Veronika Duma (Frankfurt/Main), Thomas Chopard (Paris), Gaëlle Fisher (Bielefeld)

Commentator: Karel Berkhoff (Amsterdam)

Chair: Margaret Comer (London)

Lunch         

1:30-3 pm – Panel 3: Working with the 16 vols. edition Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden – Sources, Concepts, Perspectives                     

Susanne Heim (Berlin), Elizabeth Harvey (Nottingham), Mary Fulbrook (London)

Commentator: Ido de Haan (Utrecht, via Zoom)

Chair: Gaelle Fisher (Bielefeld)

Coffee break

3:30-5 pm – Roundtable: Summary, Open Questions & Perspectives

Kim Wünschmann (Hamburg), Gerhard Hirschfeld (Stuttgart), Roma Sendyka (t.b.c.)

Chairs: Mary Fulbrook

6 pm Joint Dinner

9-10:30 am – Panel 4: Public History/Memory

Agnieszka Wierzcholska (Paris), Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius), Margaret Comer (London)

Commentator: Mark Rusling (National Holocaust Centre & Museum, UK)

Chair: Christina Morina

Coffee break (NIOD) & walk to the museum

11:30-12:30 pm – Guided Tour of the Amsterdam Resistance Museum  

12:30-2 pm Lunch conversation: Public (Holocaust) History & the Role of Ego-documents

N.N. & Krijn Thijs (Amsterdam)

2-2:30 pm: Final Discussion (all)

2:30 pm: end

2:30-3:30 pm: Coffee & team meeting (internal)

Programm.pdf