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From Warsaw to Auschwitz: How and why Holocaust memory has changed since the 1950s
Professor David Feldman will deliver the 2025 Annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture on Monday 27 Jan, 5.30-6.30pm. Attendance can be in-person or online.
Overview: In the twenty first century the Holocaust has become an inescapable component of public history and education in schools in Britain. At the same time, Auschwitz takes a central and symbolic place when we remember the Holocaust. Yet Holocaust memorialization did not always look like this. In the 1950 and 1960s it was the Warsaw Ghetto and its uprising that provided the focal point for Holocaust memorial events. Moreover, unlike today, in the 1980s the British government was divided and half-hearted when provided with an opportunity to memorialize the Nazis Jewish victims. This lecture explores how the practice and meaning of Holocaust memorialisation have changed from the 1950s to the present day, and why this matters.
Speaker: David Feldman is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London where he is also Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. His most recent book, coedited with Marc Volovici, is Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition (Palgrave, 2023). He is co-author of Facing Antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity, a report on antisemitism in Britain today which will be published by the Runnymede Trust in January 2025. He has worked with a wide range of organisations including the United Nations, the Victorian and Albert Museum, the Jewish Museum and the Football Association. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Financial Times, Haaretz, the New Statesman, The Independent and The Political Quarterly.
Register for tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/edi/1533948
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