WARWICK WORKSHOP
FOR INTERSDISCIPLINARY GERMAN STUDIES
2008-09
TERM
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07 October, 5pm ,
H202
Ladislaus Loeb (University of Sussex):
‘Rezső Kasztner – A Jewish
Schindler?’
Six monts before the end of World War II 1670 Hungarian
Jews were released from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and sent to Switzerland
thanks to an extraordinary deal between Adolf Eichmann, chief organiser of the
Holocaust, and Rezső Kasztner, a Jewish lawyer and journalist. In the 1950s in
Israel Kasztner was accused of collaborating with the Nazis and murdered by
Jewish extremists. Ladislaus Löb, Emeritus Professor of German at Sussex
University, was one of many children saved by Kasztner. Based on his new book,
Dealing with Satan: Rezső Kasztner’s Daring Rescue Mission, he will
discuss Kasztner’s controversial achievement and recount memories of life in
‘Belsen’.
28 October , 5pm, room tbc on
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/german/workshop
Erica Carter (University of Warwick):
‘Béla Balàzs and the fairy
tale of early silent film’
11 November,
5pm, H2.02
Georgina Paul (University of Oxford):
'Masculinity in trouble: narratives of the self
in Max Frisch's Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)’
ALL WELCOME!
