On November 20-21, we invite you to participate in the workshop ASPECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST IN VISUAL HISTORY. Visual History of Jewish Life and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, which will take place at Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum. 

Ninth Fort is a historically significant space for this event: in 1941, it was one of the places where deportations from Nazi Germany were carried out.

The workshop aims to present and analyse photo and film materials, discussing how this valuable visual content can be utilised for research purposes, in museums and other educational settings.  

The workshop was inspired by the Berlin-based research project #LastSeen. Pictures of Nazi deportations, which identifies and analyses photographs of Jews taken shortly before the deportations.

More information about the project can be found HERE.

Workshop intends to foster discussions among advanced students, historians, and cultural studies scholars, mainly from the Baltic region, to explore the following issues: 

• What is known about the deportations of Jews from Germany and Austria to Kaunas, Riga, and other cities? 

• Are there any eyewitness testimonies, documents, or photographs of the deportations from Germany and Austria? 

• Photographs as historical sources – how can photographs be evaluated as documents? 

• Which photos from events of the persecution and murder of Jews that took place in the Baltic region during the same period can be examined as historical sources? 

You can find more information about the programme of the event HERE. 

The working language of the workshop is English. 

Please RSVP in advance via email: povilas.dikavicius@dhi.lt 

The workshop is organised by the Vilnius branch of the GHI Warsaw in collaboration with the project #𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑆𝑒𝑒𝑛. 𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑎𝑧𝑖 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 and 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑠 𝑁𝑖𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑚.