Dr C Weissenberg
@drcweissenberg.bsky.social
Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
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For those who don't know me: I work independently at an intersection of Holocaust history, migration history, & German Jewish genealogy, utilising micro archives, macro archives, collaborative project work, digital methods, & digital outputs.
For those who don't know me: I work independently at an intersection of Holocaust history, migration history, & German Jewish genealogy, utilising micro archives, macro archives, collaborative project work, digital methods, & digital outputs.
Re-upping 🧵 👇🏻 for new followers
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The physics of Santa Claus
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Happy festivities to those who do 🌲
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Happy festivities to those who do 🌲
What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?
It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
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It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus
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December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The physics of Santa Claus
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Happy festivities to those who do 🌲
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Happy festivities to those who do 🌲
16% concerned that climate change is only just starting to wreck our food, housing & the natural world on an unimaginable scale. Would be funny if it wasn’t gut-churningly frightening
If you’re worried about immigration, health, defence & crime, how can you not have environment top of the list!
If you’re worried about immigration, health, defence & crime, how can you not have environment top of the list!
YouGov most important issues tracker, 20-22 December 2025
Economy: 53% (-1 from 13-15 Dec)
Immigration: 51% (=)
Health: 32% (-3)
Defence: 20% (=)
Crime: 20% (=)
Tax: 17% (-1)
Housing: 17% (+1)
Environment: 16% (+2)
Welfare: 16% (-1)
Brexit: 13% (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Economy: 53% (-1 from 13-15 Dec)
Immigration: 51% (=)
Health: 32% (-3)
Defence: 20% (=)
Crime: 20% (=)
Tax: 17% (-1)
Housing: 17% (+1)
Environment: 16% (+2)
Welfare: 16% (-1)
Brexit: 13% (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
16% concerned that climate change is only just starting to wreck our food, housing & the natural world on an unimaginable scale. Would be funny if it wasn’t gut-churningly frightening
If you’re worried about immigration, health, defence & crime, how can you not have environment top of the list!
If you’re worried about immigration, health, defence & crime, how can you not have environment top of the list!
Cook-cook-cookin’ up a storm here.
Marzipan and almond cakes with roast pears 😋
Marzipan and almond cakes with roast pears 😋
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Cook-cook-cookin’ up a storm here.
Marzipan and almond cakes with roast pears 😋
Marzipan and almond cakes with roast pears 😋
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Or we could treat others with kindness, compassion, even love
December 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Or we could treat others with kindness, compassion, even love
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I can’t wait to see this year’s superb owl contest.
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I can’t wait to see this year’s superb owl contest.
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On Monday 26 January 2026, we will be hosting our annual David Cesarani Memorial Lecture. Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford) will be giving this year's lecture in a talk titled, 'Packing for an unknown destination: possession and dispossession in the Holocaust'.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
On Monday 26 January 2026, we will be hosting our annual David Cesarani Memorial Lecture. Professor Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford) will be giving this year's lecture in a talk titled, 'Packing for an unknown destination: possession and dispossession in the Holocaust'.
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Light the darkness #Hanukkah
#8thNight
A quiet night for us - but knowing that in lighting the candles, I’m with my father, Werner Weissenberg, and creating light as Oma Else & Opa Leopold did before us.
They are always with me, in a tradition handed down my family through many generations 🕎
#8thNight
A quiet night for us - but knowing that in lighting the candles, I’m with my father, Werner Weissenberg, and creating light as Oma Else & Opa Leopold did before us.
They are always with me, in a tradition handed down my family through many generations 🕎
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
Quick pickle time! 👇🏻
Honey & Co., of course.
These take minutes to put together and are delicious additions to whatever form your festive table may take: Hanukkah, Christmas, or Druid (we’re within a stone’s throw of the Rollrights here and they’ll be out in force tomorrow)
Honey & Co., of course.
These take minutes to put together and are delicious additions to whatever form your festive table may take: Hanukkah, Christmas, or Druid (we’re within a stone’s throw of the Rollrights here and they’ll be out in force tomorrow)
December 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Quick pickle time! 👇🏻
Honey & Co., of course.
These take minutes to put together and are delicious additions to whatever form your festive table may take: Hanukkah, Christmas, or Druid (we’re within a stone’s throw of the Rollrights here and they’ll be out in force tomorrow)
Honey & Co., of course.
These take minutes to put together and are delicious additions to whatever form your festive table may take: Hanukkah, Christmas, or Druid (we’re within a stone’s throw of the Rollrights here and they’ll be out in force tomorrow)
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We hold a significant collection of German POW camp newspapers, comprising over 300 issues from 266 different camps
This is a selection of the Christmas editions of the camp newspapers that were created by internees at three different camps across the UK
Access the full collection: buff.ly/MhoHYFL
This is a selection of the Christmas editions of the camp newspapers that were created by internees at three different camps across the UK
Access the full collection: buff.ly/MhoHYFL
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We hold a significant collection of German POW camp newspapers, comprising over 300 issues from 266 different camps
This is a selection of the Christmas editions of the camp newspapers that were created by internees at three different camps across the UK
Access the full collection: buff.ly/MhoHYFL
This is a selection of the Christmas editions of the camp newspapers that were created by internees at three different camps across the UK
Access the full collection: buff.ly/MhoHYFL
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Finally. Glad to see this promise being kept.
It also will need to be policed: too many landowners see wildlife laws as not applicable to them.
Finally. Glad to see this promise being kept.
It also will need to be policed: too many landowners see wildlife laws as not applicable to them.
Shooting hares in England to be banned for most of the year
Exclusive: Ministers also expected to announce trail-hunting ban in sweeping changes to animal welfare law
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Finally. Glad to see this promise being kept.
It also will need to be policed: too many landowners see wildlife laws as not applicable to them.
Finally. Glad to see this promise being kept.
It also will need to be policed: too many landowners see wildlife laws as not applicable to them.
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...
December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...
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📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Find out about our employment opportunities
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December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📣 Freelance opportunity!
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive.
Find out more and apply🔗
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NEW
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Donald Trump v the British Broadcasting Corporation: the battle begins
The president filed a claim this week more about exerting leverage than legal niceties
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Tickets now available for Beyond Camps and Forced Labour 2026, co-hosted by the Library in the new year.
We can't wait to welcome you all for what promises to be a fascinating conference.
Find out more and register via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
We can't wait to welcome you all for what promises to be a fascinating conference.
Find out more and register via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Tickets now available for Beyond Camps and Forced Labour 2026, co-hosted by the Library in the new year.
We can't wait to welcome you all for what promises to be a fascinating conference.
Find out more and register via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
We can't wait to welcome you all for what promises to be a fascinating conference.
Find out more and register via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
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📢 Work with us!
We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY
We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📢 Work with us!
We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY
We are seeking an enthusiastic Engagement and Community Outreach Officer to work with us on engaging core and new audiences, to promote the Library and build archival research and digital skills amongst our audiences.
➡ £32,000p/a
➡ Closes 12 Jan 2026
Apply 🔗 buff.ly/UCxtOIY
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Light after darkness: In the Fürstenfeldbrück DP camp, two children and Yaakov Goldman, the chief rabbi of the U.S. Army in Europe, join to light the third candle on the hanukkiah. It is 1945, and they are celebrating Hanukkah for the first time since the Holocaust.
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Light after darkness: In the Fürstenfeldbrück DP camp, two children and Yaakov Goldman, the chief rabbi of the U.S. Army in Europe, join to light the third candle on the hanukkiah. It is 1945, and they are celebrating Hanukkah for the first time since the Holocaust.
Much nicer for our Active 10s walk today.
Mistimed it a bit and much in need of lunch next.
Very lovely, very old church looking super in the blue sky and sunshine though.
Always happier in the winter sun than in the winter grey.
Mistimed it a bit and much in need of lunch next.
Very lovely, very old church looking super in the blue sky and sunshine though.
Always happier in the winter sun than in the winter grey.
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Much nicer for our Active 10s walk today.
Mistimed it a bit and much in need of lunch next.
Very lovely, very old church looking super in the blue sky and sunshine though.
Always happier in the winter sun than in the winter grey.
Mistimed it a bit and much in need of lunch next.
Very lovely, very old church looking super in the blue sky and sunshine though.
Always happier in the winter sun than in the winter grey.
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The first step of course is to watch this wonderful video by @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfx...
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Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?
YouTube video by RamsesThePigeon
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The first step of course is to watch this wonderful video by @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfx...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfx...
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My view: the phrase is a command, and injunction. You are to rest merry.
Of course being a woke semi-pagan liberal the title should now be "Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk".
But now over to you, bemused Russian pornbots and others.
Enjoy.
Of course being a woke semi-pagan liberal the title should now be "Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk".
But now over to you, bemused Russian pornbots and others.
Enjoy.
December 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
My view: the phrase is a command, and injunction. You are to rest merry.
Of course being a woke semi-pagan liberal the title should now be "Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk".
But now over to you, bemused Russian pornbots and others.
Enjoy.
Of course being a woke semi-pagan liberal the title should now be "Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk".
But now over to you, bemused Russian pornbots and others.
Enjoy.
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Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Merry gentlefolk, it is time.
Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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Today is the day.
Today is comma-mas.
Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'.
And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it.
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🏆 Good news - the submission window has been extended to 6th January for multiple BAAS Awards including...
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
Awards - British Association for American Studies
Each year, BAAS offers a growing list of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistance awards. In recent years, we have added new essay awards for students of colour at school,…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🏆 Good news - the submission window has been extended to 6th January for multiple BAAS Awards including...
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
* School Essay Award
* Undergraduate & Postgraduate Essay Awards
* Teaching Development Awards
Learn more & make your submission here:
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I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de