Malach Centre for Visual History

"WWII: history and memory of the Holocaust"

The Malach Center for Visual History is showcasing an online exhibition featuring StoryMaps created by students from the joint course WWII: History and Memory of the Holocaust, co-taught by our coordinator and Claims Conference lecturer, Karin Roginer Hofmeister, along with Kateřina Králová (CUNI) and Jacqueline Nießer (University of Regensburg).

These StoryMaps are unique visual representations, combining oral testimonies sourced from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive with fieldwork conducted by the students during the course. This exhibition offers an interactive way to explore personal narratives and historical contexts surrounding the Holocaust, emphasizing the educational collaboration between the two universities and the Malach Center.

David Lester: The Path of a Holocaust Survivor by Maja Perschke, Jude Peters, Lenka Přibylová, and Tan Jian Sheng

John Freund: A boy who lived through the horrors of a ghetto, two concentration camps, and a lost family before the age of 15 by Michał Palmąka, Kateřina Kroupová, Jasmine Gerber, Braulio Cruz-Melo, Anahit Arakelyan

Jacob Adler: Reconstructing an oral testimony of a Czechoslovakian holocaust survivor and his tough journey to Canada by Eliška Šolcová, Dinh Ngoc Thao Pham, Melissa Grosche

Surviving the Holocaust: The Testimony of Walter Brauner by Carlos Bueno Herranz, Magda Mazurek, Kira Rettinger, Davina Sienkiewicz

The course was financially supported by the Bavarian Czech Agency for University Cooperation (Bayrisch-Tschechische Hochschulagentur, BTHA), Zentrum Erinnerungskultur (Center for Commemorative Culture), and Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.

"Train to freedom"

On the occasion of its 13th-anniversary conference, the Malach Centre for Visual History hosts a public exhibition devoted to the liberation action that went down in history as the "Musy transport" and, more sublimely, the "train to freedom." The exhibited posters were made by the students of the course Transnational politics, complicity, and victims of the Holocaust taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, in the winter semester 2022/2023, thanks to the partnership with Claims Conference. The Czech-German Future Fund and the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University also supported the exhibition.