Shivaun Woolfson
Tuesday 7 Oct 2014
Time: 17.00-18.00, followed by drinks and nibbles

Venue: Jubilee Building 144, University of Sussex
[Drinks and nibbles afterwards in Silverstone social space]

Dr. Shivaun Woolfson travelled to Lithuania to trace her ancestry and discovered the story of a people. Holocaust Legacy in Post- Soviet Lithuania: People, Places and Objects, the wonderful new book she has written about her experience, uncovers the lives of a remarkable group of elderly Holocaust survivors against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal. She invites us to look through the lens of their stories and memories, their biographical objects and their ‘special’ places with deeply moving results. Incorporating psychology, anthropology and ethnography, the book has, at its core, a deeply spiritual approach which marks it out from conventional historical treatments of the subject. To launch the book, Shivaun delivered a short presentation highlighting the remarkable histories of the individuals at the heart of her research, including slide-show, video clips and short readings from the text.

This talk was for anyone interested in memory, object stories, and one of the defining histories of the twentieth century.

This event was sponsored by the Sussex Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies.

This was a free event.
For more information, please contact:
Alexandra Loske, Administrator at CLHLWR 
a.loske@sussex.ac.uk

 We had a full house for this event. Here are some pictures taken on the day: