Curators’ Talk: Holocaust Letters with Christine Schmidt, Sandra Lipner
This event was organised as part of the Holocaust Letters exhibition events series.
Join the curators of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership’s latest exhibition, Holocaust Letters, to learn more about how they developed the exhibition. Their talk will discuss key letters on display, the ethics and practice of curating personal document collections, the role of the archive in mediating the past, and reflections on co-curating with historians and families.
About the Speakers:
Dr Christine Schmidt is the Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Her research has focused on postwar tracing and documentation efforts, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany, and comparative studies of collaboration, rescue and resistance in France and Hungary. Her current project focuses on a collection of survivor accounts recorded by the Library and led by Eva Reichmann in the 1950s.
Sandra Lipner is a technē (AHRC)-funded doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London and a co-curator of the Holocaust Letters exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library. Her PhD thesis is a cultural family history based on her German family’s collection of letters and documents from the period 1933-45, and she studies the use of family history in microhistories of the Holocaust to evaluate its place within the historiography of the Third Reich.