VWI invites RECET
Workshop
What’s New in Holocaust Studies?
📆 Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 13:00–18:00
📍 Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI), Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna
🎟 Please register via
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📌 Full programme: bit.ly/VWI-invites-RECET-25
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🔸 13:00-13:40
Jovana Cveticanin (VWI Junior Fellow/Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies)
Yugoslavia and the Shoah 1944-1991
Commented by Ljiljana Radonić (Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
🔸 13:40-14:20
Jackie Olson (VWI Junior Fellow)
The Politics of Death in Post-war Austria, 1945-1970
Commented by Ursula Mindler-Steiner (Department of History, University of Graz)
🔸 14:20-15:00
Elena Beletckaia (VWI Junior Fellow)
The Notion of Home in the Holocaust Discourse. Post-war migration in/to Eastern Europe, Israel, and the United States
Commented by Alexander Schneidmesser (RECET, University of Vienna)
🔸 15:30-16:10
Bogdan Chiriac (Gerda Henkel Research Fellow)
Petitioning Against Injustice. Roma Resistance in Transnistria During the Holocaust
Commented by Laura Plochberger (RECET, University of Vienna)
🔸 16:10-16:50
Béla Bodó (VWI Senior Fellow)
Edmund Veesenmayer in Budapest: the Final Phase of the Jewish Genocide
Commented by Kinga Frojimovics (VWI)
🔸 16:50-17:30
Roman Shlyakhtych (VWI Fortunoff Research Fellow)
Involvement of Local Policemen in the Implementation of the Holocaust Policy on the Territory of the Reichskommissariat ‘Ukraine’
Commented by Jannis Panagiotidis (RECET, University of Vienna)
🔸 17:30-18:00 Farewell
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📸: VWI © Kurt Prinz/VWI
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In cooperation with Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET)
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By participating in this event, you consent to the publication of photos, video and audio recordings that are made during the event.
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