Online-Vortrag: Traces of a Lost Past: Finding Family Files in the World Jewish Relief Archive and the LostLift Database
Online-Vortrag / 10.4.2024 / 18.30 bis 21 Uhr / Teilnahme ist kostenlos
Anlässlich des Tags der Provenienzforschung nimmt die Provenienzforscherin Dr. Kathrin Kleibl vom Deutschen Schifffahrtsmuseums (DSM) / Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte am Mittwoch, 10. April 2024 an einer Veranstaltung für Nachfahren von im Nationalsozialismus enteigneten Familien des britischen Vereins Second Generation Networks teil. Interessierte können sich zu der englischsprachigen Diskussion dazuschalten.
Dr Rachel Pistol, a digital historian at King’s College London who works on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, will describe the contents of the World Jewish Relief archive (which has now been digitised) and how to access the many documents and files relating to refugees who fled Nazi persecution in Europe and came to the UK between 1933 and 1946. WJR has the names of over 315,000 people and records for 65,000 refugees whom they supported in the 1930s and 1940s, ranging from registration cards to case files. Our relatives may well be amongst those who were registered and/or assisted.
Dr. Kathrin Kleibl, a provenance researcher at the German Maritime Museum and head of a project on the auctioning of Jewish removal goods in the late 1930s and early 1940s in Bremen and Hamburg, will speak about the LostLift database (https://lostlift.dsm.museum). The database records details of the items packed by families into Liftvans (portable storage containers) that were due to be sent abroad, as people fled, but were seized and ultimately auctioned off. The database also details the looting process and provides – in some cases – documents about the items in the Liftvans. Dr. Kleibl will give examples and explain how the descendants of the original owners are being traced, including Janet Lew, a member of the Network Committee, and how the LostLift database can be accessed.
This event is open to all members of the Second and Third Generations and there will be time after the presentations for your questions and comments.
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