On the occasion of the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner will talk about his book chapter “Media Sites and Cultural Spaces. Jewish Breslau and Broadcasting”, published in the collection Breslau / Wrocław 1933-1949. Studies in the Topography of the Shoah. The event will be chaired by Dr. Anna Menny. Prof. Dr. Arno Herzig will introduce the topic.
About the Anthology
In the inter-war period, the Silesian city of Breslau (since 1945 Wrocław, Poland) was home to the third largest Jewish community in the German Reich. Like Jews in other German cities, they experienced exclusion from urban space, persecution and extermination by the Nazis. Yet the Nazi era in Breslau has long been little researched – neither in Poland nor in Germany has the topic been intensively studied. The city’s change of nationality in 1945, the “Cold War” and its consequences, as well as the language barrier, prevented this. The authors of a new study on the topography of the Shoah in Breslau/Wrocław 1933–1949 reconstruct places and spheres of Jewish life: work and home, religion and politics, art and culture. They want to help keep alive the memory of those who were persecuted. They draw attention not only to the fates of individuals, but also to the (preserved) historical buildings that bear their stories and thus become memorials in today’s urban space, making the history and legacy of Wroclaw’s Jewish residents tangible.
