Event in Novi Sad - Escalating into Holocaust project

Dr Nebojsa Kuzmanovic, Deputy Secretary for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities of the Vojvodina Province

International conference „Escalating into Holocaust”

International conference within the project „Escalating into Holocaust“ was held on 25. January 2017 in the Historical Archives of the City of Novi Sad.

The conference gathered experts from Serbia and Europe, scholars, archivists, teachers, representatives of the Jewish communities, students and others interested in the topic.
The conference program included presentations and expert lectures on the Holocaust and the WWII, as well as a panel debate. Beside invited experts, the conference audience participated actively in an intense and dynamic discussion, contributing opinions and questions for the experts.

The conference focused on four topics: :

Presentation of the results of the project “Escalating into Holocaust”;
Overview of the contemporary trends in memorialisation, musealisation and remembrance in Europe and the Western Balkans;
Remembering the victims of the Novi Sad Raid and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day;
Holocaust Education in Serbia and in Europe in the frames of common European challenges regarding rising antisemitism, xenophobia and historical revision;

BW photo: Nikola Radic Lucati

Program

The conference was opened by welcoming speeches of:
MA Dragan Gačić, Director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade
MA Petar Đurđev, Director of the Historical Archives of the City of Novi Sad
Dalibor Rožić, Member of the Committee for Cultural Affairs of the Novi Sad City Council
Dr Nebojša Kuzmanović, Deputy Secretary for Culture, Public Information and Relations with Religious Communities of the Vojvodina Province

It was emphasized that this international event represent a contribution to the commemoration activities surrounding two important Memorial Days:
January 27 – The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the commemoration of the Novi Sad Raid on 23 January

(Novi Sad Raid is a massacre of several thousands civilians Serbs, Jews and Roma in Novi Sad and Backa region committed by the Hungarian fascists 22-23 January 1942)

Introductory lecture:

Historical background – Holocaust in Serbia and concentration Camp on Sajmište
Dr Milan Koljanin, Historian, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade;

Miško Stanišić, Director of the Terraforming network Stockholm-Amsterdam-Novi Sad: the project achievements and results

MA Petar Djurdjev, Director of the Historical Archives of the City of Novi Sad – lecture on the Novi Sad Raid

Presentation of the results achieved in the project „Escalating into Holocaust”

Project “Escalating into Holocaust” – From local particularities in Serbia to European context: working process, goals, activities, challenges and results
Miško Stanišić, Director of the Terraforming network Stockholm-Amsterdam-Novi Sad;

Significance of the international exchange within the project “Escalating into Holocaust” – understanding the Holocaust from local to the European historical perspectives
Dr Sanela Schmid, Historian, researcher in the project “Persecution of Jews 1933-1945” Institute for Contemporary History Munchen-Berlin (Germany);

Database of the victims killed at the concentration camp at Sajmište
Tijana Kovčić, archivist, Historical Archives of Belgrade;

Exhibition „October 1941“
Nikola Radić Lucati, artist, co-author of the exhibition, Center for Holocaust Research and Education – CHRE, Belgrade;

MA Dragan Gačić, Director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade

Dr Teodor Kovač, Author and Holocaust survivor from Novi Sad taking part in the discussion

Overview of the contemporary trends in memorialisation, musealisation and remembrance in Europe and the Western Balkans

Holocaust in the Culture of Remembrance in Europe and in the Western Balkans
Dr Vjeran Pavlaković, Head of the Department for Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Museums and Remembrance – Contemporary European Tendencies
Dr Erik Somers, Historian, head of the project team, Institute for the Studies of War, Holocaust and Genocide NIOD, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands

Remembering the victims of the Novi Sad Raid and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Novi Sad Raid – Historical Overview
Mr Petar Đurđev, Director of the Historical Archives of the City of Novi Sad

Introduction to the Panel Debate:

Educational concept „Ester“ – Teaching material based on graphic novels about the young Jewish victims perished in the concentration camp at Sajmište
Miško Stanišić, Director of the Terraforming network Stockholm-Amsterdam-Novi Sad

Dr Erik Somers, Institute for the Studies of War, Holocaust and Genocide NIOD: Museums and Remembrance

Dr Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka, Croatia: Holocaust in the Culture of Remembrance in Europe and in the Western Balkans

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EVENT VI

International Conference "Escalating into Holocaust"

International conference „Escalating into Holocaust”

Program

Introductory lecture:

Presentation of the results achieved in the project „Escalating into Holocaust”

Overview of the contemporary trends in memorialisation, musealisation and remembrance in Europe and the Western Balkans

Remembering the victims of the Novi Sad Raid and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Introduction to the Panel Debate:

Panel Debate:
Holocaust Education in Serbia and in Europe in the frames of common European challenges regarding rising antisemitism, xenophobia and historical revision

Expert lecturers, participants, panelists and distinguished guests at the event

Contact

EVENT VI

International Conference "Escalating into Holocaust"

International conference „Escalating into Holocaust”

Program

Introductory lecture:

Presentation of the results achieved in the project „Escalating into Holocaust”

Overview of the contemporary trends in memorialisation, musealisation and remembrance in Europe and the Western Balkans

Remembering the victims of the Novi Sad Raid and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Introduction to the Panel Debate:

Panel Debate: Holocaust Education in Serbia and in Europe in the frames of common European challenges regarding rising antisemitism, xenophobia and historical revision

Expert lecturers, participants, panelists and distinguished guests at the event

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Historical Archive of Belgrade

Project Partners:

Project Management

Contact

Panel Debate:
Holocaust Education in Serbia and in Europe in the frames of common European challenges regarding rising antisemitism, xenophobia and historical revision