NIOD: Listening to Testimonies of Mass Atrocities – Past Lessons and New Opportunities

October 31, 2024
Doelenzaal, Singel 425, Amsterdam, 13:30 – 17:30

Admission is free, but registration is required. Please email K.Menig@niod.knaw.nl by October 25, 2024 to register.

Public Workshop and Discussion hosted by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in cooperation with the USC Shoah Foundation

13:30 Welcome

13:40 – 14:10 Keynote: “Witness(es) for the Future: The Texture of Testimony since 1945”

Robert J. Williams, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair, USC Shoah Foundation; UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research; Advisor, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

14:10 – 15:10 Panel 1: Past Lessons from Listening to Eyewitness Testimonies

Moderator: Nanci Adler, Professor of Memory, History, and Transitional Justice at the NIOD/University of Amsterdam; Senior Researcher, NIOD

Participants:

Selma Leydesdorff, em. Professor of Oral History and Culture, University of Amsterdam
Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton

15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:40 Panel 2: Testimony as a Resource for Research and Remembrance

Moderator: Karel Berkhoff, Senior Researcher, NIOD and Co-Director, EHRI

Participants:
Stephen Naron, Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Dienke Hondius, Associate Professor of History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, Gelinada Grinchenko, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany/Dnipro, National University, Ukraine

16:40 – 17:30 Round Table and Q&A: Past and New Opportunities for Engaging with Audio-Visual Testimony

Moderators: Jennifer Rodgers, Director of Academic Programs, USC Shoah Foundation and Reto Speck, Senior Researcher, NIOD and Co-Director, EHRI

Participants:

Selma Leydesdorff
Tony Kushner
Stephen Naron
Dienke Hondius
Gelinada Grinchenko

17:30 – 18:30 Drinks