Vor 80 Jahren: Ausweitung der Deportationen

The Ghetto Fighters' House "Talking Memory" Series Presents:

Rethinking the "Final Solution" and the Wannsee Conference 80 Years Later

Join us on Sunday, March 27, 2022 for the fourth and final program in the series:

Marking the 80^th Anniversary of the Transport of 999 Jewish Women to Auschwitz: The Beginning of the Systematic Annihilation of the Jews

With Guest Speakers:

• Prof. Heather Dune Macadam: "999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz"
• Prof. Hanna Yablonka: "Three Years Without a Name: Auschwitz 1942-1945"

If the Wannsee Conference discussed plans to target young Jewish women as part of its Final Solution protocol that part of the minutes was destroyed. What we do know is that a few weeks after that meeting, Himmler ordered the creation of a women’s camp in Auschwitz. So began the official systematic annihilation of Jews, which attacked, first and foremost, unmarried Jewish girls and young women, between the ages of 16 and 32.

Heather Dune Macadam, author of the book 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz, will speak about her research for the book and the soon to be released film 999. She reveals these young women's poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.

One of the women on the transport from Poprad, Slovakia was Prof. Hanna Yablonka's aunt, Lila Klein, from the nearby town of Levoča, in the Tatra Mountains. Another young woman from the same town was Yuci [Jozi] Foldi (in Slovak Julia Skodova). She was one of the few women who survived the transport. Her testimony, therefore, is extraordinary because she was a witness to what Hanna Yablonka has described as the "archeology of Auschwitz" – the step-by-step implementation of the Final Solution in this camp. In her presentation, Yablonka will discuss the preparations to publish Skodova's book, Three Years Without a Name: Auschwitz 1942-1945, the unique experience of Slovakian Jews in the history of the Final Solution, including her family's personal story, and the tragic fate of Julia Skodova.

This program is in partnership with Liberation 75, Remember the Women Institute, the Rabin Chair Forum, the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site, Classrooms Without Borders, and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Center.

Les rafles de l’été 1942 en Europe de l’Ouest

De la planification à la mise en œuvre : des acteurs face au choix de la collaboration

Le déclenchement, à l’été 1942, des grandes rafles en France, aux Pays-Bas et en Belgique marque le début de la « Solution finale » en Europe de l’Ouest : en l’espace de quelques mois cent mille Juifs sont arrêtés et déportés depuis les territoires de ces trois pays.

La planification depuis Berlin et la mise en œuvre des opérations sur le terrain constituent un vaste ensemble d’interactions entre l’occupant et les autorités locales, allant de négociations politiques à l’organisation concrète des arrestations, et mobilisant un réseau complexe d’acteurs appartenant à diverses administrations.

Si ce colloque entend aborder, dans une perspective comparée, ces opérations qui sont le plus souvent perçues sous un prisme national, son objectif est également de fournir une réponse scientifique aux falsifications de l’histoire sur la politique de Vichy à l’égard des Juifs, actuellement en vogue dans le débat public.

Coordination scientifique : Tal Bruttmann, historien, et Julie Maeck, historienne, responsable de la programmation de l’auditorium.

Coordination logistique : Maïalen Despiau-Couret, stagiaire à l’auditorium.

En présence de Isabelle Backouche, Omer Bartov, Tal Bruttmann, Alexandre Doulut, Ruth Fivaz‐Sylbermann, Antoine Grande, Pim Griffioen, Laurent Joly, Serge Klarsfeld, Christoph Kreutzmüller, Éric Le Bourhis, Nicolas Mariot, Dan Michman, Dieter Pohl, Renée Poznanski, Laurence Schram, Christophe Tarricone, Nina Valbousquet, Annette Wieviorka, Claire Zalc.