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A New Year
Good Health, Sanity, and Fair Weather
To You and Yours
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Sir Martin's January Books
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Never Again
A concise yet complete history of the Holocaust
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Holocaust Atlas
Gilbert maps, illustrations and text that delineate the history
For ebook discount, enter DC 360
at checkout.
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20 January 2022
The 80 Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference
when genocide became mechanised
460 words / 2 minute read
On 20 January 1942 thirteen senior Nazi and German officials met at a secluded lakeside villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a few miles from Berlin. They had been summoned by the SS General Reinhard Heydrich, who told them that he had just been appointed “Plenipotentiary for the Preparation of the Final Solution of the European Jewish Question”.
The aim of the meeting, Heydrich explained, was to coordinate the work of Hitler's Chancellery, the SS Race and Resettlement Office, the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, the Ministry of the Interior, the Justice Ministry, the Foreign Office and several other government departments. Also brought into the discussion, having made the journey from Cracow by train, were senior officials of the General Government. Continue Reading
The list of countries presented by Eichmann to the Wannsee Conference,
with the number of Jews whom it was intended to be deported to their deaths.
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 From Esther Gilbert
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Report from the trenches
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Are we there yet?
650 words / 3 minute read
In January 2020, I asked whether we would have 20:20 – perfect vision. Then, within the span of two months the world changed. We watched as the streets of Wuhan became empty, thinking – well, that will never happen here. We watched as the South Koreans donned face masks and had phone apps that tracked their movements and those of people who had been infected, thinking – well, that will never happen here. Then, in early March, within the space of three days, I went from being concerned about supply chains of goods coming from China, to putting myself in complete lockdown (days before it became mandated). I gained comfort from the words of a Holocaust survivor who said we would be safe if we stayed home, unlike her family who had been ripped from their home and killed 78 years earlier. Continue Reading
From The Somme, The Heroism and Horror of War
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Israeli President Herzog meets the Prince of Wales
320 words / 1 ½ minutes
What gift does the President of Israel present to the Prince of Wales on his first visit to the UK as President? What to give to a Prince?
In November, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem established a nursing scholarship in the name of Princess Alice, the paternal grandmother of the Prince of Wales: the Compassion and Perseverance Scholarship in Nursing in Memory of Princess Alice of Battenberg. President Herzog presented Prince Charles with a scroll outlining the scholarship in honour of Princess Alice who had devoted her life to helping the poor and sick of Athens, especially during the Second World War. A nursing scholarship in her name is therefore very fitting.
HRH The Prince of Wales greets Israeli President Isaac Herzog, 22 November 2021
Photo © GPO/ Kobi Gideon
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The Jewish Story Explained
based on Sir Martin's book Letters to Auntie Fori
The Story of the Jewish People
New videos:
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Read: Auntie Fori
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“Despite the widespread libel in Germany that German Jewry stabbed their country in the back in World War I, 12,000 Jews died in action fighting for the kaiser. Sir Martin Gilbert wrote: 'When the war ended in November 1918, Jewish soldiers, sailors and airmen had filled the Rolls of Honor, the field hospitals, and the military cemeteries, side by side with their compatriots under a dozen national flags.'”
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Come Zoom with us!
Shirli Gilbert
Professor of Modern Jewish History, UCL
Academic Director of the Centre
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 Seminar, with Shirli Gilbert
Beginning January 14, 10.30am -12.00pm (GMT), 8 Friday mornings
Wandering Jews: Migration in Modern Jewish History
Zoom
Jews have always been a people on the move. They have travelled across cities, nations, and continents—sometimes out of choice, sometimes because they had no alternative. What factors have shaped Jews’ decisions to stay or leave, and where to go? How have they adapted along the way? And to what extent did the establishment of a Jewish homeland impact the continued existence of the "Wandering Jew"?
Lecture, with Dr Jaclyn Granick
18 January 2022, 7.00-8.15pm (GMT)
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War
Zoom
Against the backdrop of war, revolution, and reconstruction, this is the history of American Jews who went abroad in solidarity to rescue and rebuild Jewish lives in Jewish homelands.
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Lecture, with Esther Gilbert
20 January 2022, 7.00-8.00pm (GMT)
Destination: Death, the 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference
Zoom
Join Lady Esther Gilbert, widow of Sir Martin, as she reads excerpts from his books and places the Wannsee Conference in its context within the Holocaust.
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Panel Discussion, moderated by Professor Shirli Gilbert
and Dr Andy Pearce
25 January 2022, 7.30-9pm (GMT)
The Holocaust in Public
Zoom
What is the value of academic involvement in processes of public education and commemoration? To what extent is such involvement a reality, particularly in the UK? What are the prospects for further growth in collaborative initiatives, and what are the obstacles? And how far does our expanded digital world impact this relationship?
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