StanleyBurtonCentre
@uolsbc.bsky.social
The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Leicester.
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton
⏰ Happening soon. Kindly secure your spot for the SBC hybrid lecture on 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐥l.
Registration links below👇
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IN PERSON
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February 19, 2026 at 4:26 PM
⏰ Happening soon. Kindly secure your spot for the SBC hybrid lecture on 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲: 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐥l.
Registration links below👇
ONLINE-
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IN PERSON
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IN PERSON
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On 29 January, our very own @svenjabethke.bsky.social joined Prof. Richard Breitman and @waitmanwbeorn.com for an online discussion on Holocaust studies.
If you missed the book talk, kindly feel free to watch the recorded discussion using the link below
youtu.be/f_AL_8tO3pw?...
If you missed the book talk, kindly feel free to watch the recorded discussion using the link below
youtu.be/f_AL_8tO3pw?...
Recent Books in Holocaust Studies | Richard Breitman, Waitman Wade Beorn & Svenja Bethke
YouTube video by Western Galilee College: Holocaust Studies Program
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February 13, 2026 at 1:47 PM
On 29 January, our very own @svenjabethke.bsky.social joined Prof. Richard Breitman and @waitmanwbeorn.com for an online discussion on Holocaust studies.
If you missed the book talk, kindly feel free to watch the recorded discussion using the link below
youtu.be/f_AL_8tO3pw?...
If you missed the book talk, kindly feel free to watch the recorded discussion using the link below
youtu.be/f_AL_8tO3pw?...
📣Join us on 4 March, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall'. Please register using the links below for either in-person or online attendance.
February 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
📣Join us on 4 March, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall'. Please register using the links below for either in-person or online attendance.
The recording of the Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture is now available to watch. youtu.be/bnOpAAIJfoA?...
Many thanks to our partners @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @igdjhh.bsky.social, and the presenters @drhannahw.bsky.social, @Deborah Jaffé & @svenjabethke.bsky.social
Many thanks to our partners @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @igdjhh.bsky.social, and the presenters @drhannahw.bsky.social, @Deborah Jaffé & @svenjabethke.bsky.social
Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026 – What Remains: Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust
YouTube video by The Wiener Holocaust Library
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February 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
The recording of the Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture is now available to watch. youtu.be/bnOpAAIJfoA?...
Many thanks to our partners @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @igdjhh.bsky.social, and the presenters @drhannahw.bsky.social, @Deborah Jaffé & @svenjabethke.bsky.social
Many thanks to our partners @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @igdjhh.bsky.social, and the presenters @drhannahw.bsky.social, @Deborah Jaffé & @svenjabethke.bsky.social
As the UK’s oldest Holocaust research centre at a British university, the @uolsbc.bsky.social is proud to mark Holocaust Memorial Day with our partners, Leicester City Council. The event will be held at De Montfort University on Tuesday 27 January from 7pm.
January 27, 2026 at 3:51 PM
As the UK’s oldest Holocaust research centre at a British university, the @uolsbc.bsky.social is proud to mark Holocaust Memorial Day with our partners, Leicester City Council. The event will be held at De Montfort University on Tuesday 27 January from 7pm.
Last-minute registration is still open for the Online discussion on Recent Books in Holocaust Studies: New Research and Interpretations. Event will be held on 29 January at 5pm UK / 7pm IL time. The discussion will feature @svenjabethke.bsky.social , Prof. Richard Breitman & @waitmanwbeorn.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Last-minute registration is still open for the Online discussion on Recent Books in Holocaust Studies: New Research and Interpretations. Event will be held on 29 January at 5pm UK / 7pm IL time. The discussion will feature @svenjabethke.bsky.social , Prof. Richard Breitman & @waitmanwbeorn.com
Our very own @svenjabethke.bsky.social will be talking about her book 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' @uoftpress.bsky.social on Thursday, 29 January, 5pm UK time. Join her and other authors discussing their books! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I look forward to discussing my book 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' @uoftpress.bsky.social online on 29 Jan, 5pm UK time/7pm IL time alongside other exciting publications - thanks @Western Galilee College- Reg to join us👇
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January 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Our very own @svenjabethke.bsky.social will be talking about her book 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' @uoftpress.bsky.social on Thursday, 29 January, 5pm UK time. Join her and other authors discussing their books! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Reminder! Tomorrow 20 January 2026
18:00 UK-Time, 19:00 CET
Register here 👇
18:00 UK-Time, 19:00 CET
Register here 👇
Join us for our virtual #HolocaustMemorialDay 2026 event co-organised with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social & @igdjhh.bsky.social on 20 Jan, 6-7pm UK time, with @drhannahw.bsky.social, Deborah Jaffé and @svenjabethke.bsky.social Details and registration👇 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Online Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026 - What Remains: Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are ple...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Reminder! Tomorrow 20 January 2026
18:00 UK-Time, 19:00 CET
Register here 👇
18:00 UK-Time, 19:00 CET
Register here 👇
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Tickets to attend our online #HMD2026 lecture are now live!
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
January 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Tickets to attend our online #HMD2026 lecture are now live!
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Book via our website 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
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Last chance to register for this year’s Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference! We gather tomorrow! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social
The programme and registration is LIVE! wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/r...
fees: £120 3 days; £60 single day. Subsidised tickets avail for PhD students. Register now! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social
fees: £120 3 days; £60 single day. Subsidised tickets avail for PhD students. Register now! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Last chance to register for this year’s Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference! We gather tomorrow! @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @lbilondon.bsky.social @hgrporg.bsky.social
Join us for our virtual #HolocaustMemorialDay 2026 event co-organised with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social & @igdjhh.bsky.social on 20 Jan, 6-7pm UK time, with @drhannahw.bsky.social, Deborah Jaffé and @svenjabethke.bsky.social Details and registration👇 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Online Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026 - What Remains: Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, the Wiener Holocaust Library London and the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester are ple...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
January 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Join us for our virtual #HolocaustMemorialDay 2026 event co-organised with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social & @igdjhh.bsky.social on 20 Jan, 6-7pm UK time, with @drhannahw.bsky.social, Deborah Jaffé and @svenjabethke.bsky.social Details and registration👇 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/holoca...
Dear colleagues and friends of the SBC,
We regret to inform you that our planned event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are working on rescheduling the event for the New Year and will share the updated details as soon as they are confirmed.
We regret to inform you that our planned event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are working on rescheduling the event for the New Year and will share the updated details as soon as they are confirmed.
📣Join us on 2 Dec, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall' - Please register for in-person or online attendance. Eventbrite links below
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Dear colleagues and friends of the SBC,
We regret to inform you that our planned event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are working on rescheduling the event for the New Year and will share the updated details as soon as they are confirmed.
We regret to inform you that our planned event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are working on rescheduling the event for the New Year and will share the updated details as soon as they are confirmed.
Yesterday we were honored to welcome Dr. Waitman Beorn @waitmanwbeorn.com for the SBC 2025 Aubrey Newman Lecture. He introduced us to his groundbreaking work, "𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩" shedding light on one of the Holocaust’s most overlooked yet deadly sites.
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yesterday we were honored to welcome Dr. Waitman Beorn @waitmanwbeorn.com for the SBC 2025 Aubrey Newman Lecture. He introduced us to his groundbreaking work, "𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩" shedding light on one of the Holocaust’s most overlooked yet deadly sites.
We are very much looking forward to it!
Super excited to be delivering the 2025Aubrey Newman Lecture at the Stanley Burton Holocaust Centre (@uolsbc.bsky.social)
Please come if you are in the area!
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Please come if you are in the area!
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November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are very much looking forward to it!
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I'll be talking about Janowska and the #VisualizingJanowska project this Thursday as I am honored to be giving the Aubrey Newman Lecture at the @uolsbc.bsky.social in Leicester!
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The 2025 Stanley Burton Centre's Aubrey Newman Lecture
Please join us for the 2025 Stanley Burton Centre's Aubrey Newman Lecture.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'll be talking about Janowska and the #VisualizingJanowska project this Thursday as I am honored to be giving the Aubrey Newman Lecture at the @uolsbc.bsky.social in Leicester!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s...
📣Join us on 2 Dec, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall' - Please register for in-person or online attendance. Eventbrite links below
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
📣Join us on 2 Dec, 5.30pm for our hybrid SBC lecture and reception with Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall' - Please register for in-person or online attendance. Eventbrite links below
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We are delighted to share a new call for papers for a one-day symposium on 'The Holocaust across the Mediterranean' that will take place on 24 April 2026 and has been organised by our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Rebecca Glasberg.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We are delighted to share a new call for papers for a one-day symposium on 'The Holocaust across the Mediterranean' that will take place on 24 April 2026 and has been organised by our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Rebecca Glasberg.
Dear friends and colleagues of the SBC, in case you didn’t see the earlier announcement, this is a gentle reminder to register. Here’s the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s...
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dear friends and colleagues of the SBC, in case you didn’t see the earlier announcement, this is a gentle reminder to register. Here’s the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s...
📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
📣 Join us on Tues, 2 Dec, at 5.30pm for a hybrid lecture by Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social on 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall', followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. For details and registration see Eventbrite links👇
Please join us on the 27th of November for the 2025 Stanley Burton Centre’s Aubrey Newman Lecture. This lecture was initiated in 2006 to honour Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre in 1992. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s... @waitmanwbeorn.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Please join us on the 27th of November for the 2025 Stanley Burton Centre’s Aubrey Newman Lecture. This lecture was initiated in 2006 to honour Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre in 1992. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-s... @waitmanwbeorn.com
This week, we are delighted to welcome Kelsey Akers to the SBC family as a PhD student. Her research examines clothing designed or made by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the post-war years, either in their material form, photographic representations, or oral descriptions
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This week, we are delighted to welcome Kelsey Akers to the SBC family as a PhD student. Her research examines clothing designed or made by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the post-war years, either in their material form, photographic representations, or oral descriptions
Today we welcome Dmitri Abrahams, who recently joined The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as a PhD student. His research examines the creation, evolution, and reception of Holocaust memory in South Africa (1947–2009).
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Today we welcome Dmitri Abrahams, who recently joined The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies as a PhD student. His research examines the creation, evolution, and reception of Holocaust memory in South Africa (1947–2009).
📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...
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It was wonderful to have our friends from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway open their exhibition on the International Tracing Service hosted at the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Stanley Burton Centre @uolsbc.bsky.social last week!
We recently hosted @ceschmidt.bsky.social from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and Prof. Dan Stone from Royal Holloway, University of London, for an exhibition sharing heartbreaking cases from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social International Tracing Service, used to locate missing Holocaust victims
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It was wonderful to have our friends from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway open their exhibition on the International Tracing Service hosted at the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Stanley Burton Centre @uolsbc.bsky.social last week!
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Thank you very much to @uolsbc.bsky.social @svenjabethke.bsky.social, Paul Moore, Bright Chimezda, and Jaspreet Singh for being such wonderful hosts and to all who came out to see the exhibition last week. First time in Leicester! And hope to return @hgrporg.bsky.social @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social
We recently hosted @ceschmidt.bsky.social from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and Prof. Dan Stone from Royal Holloway, University of London, for an exhibition sharing heartbreaking cases from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social International Tracing Service, used to locate missing Holocaust victims
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Thank you very much to @uolsbc.bsky.social @svenjabethke.bsky.social, Paul Moore, Bright Chimezda, and Jaspreet Singh for being such wonderful hosts and to all who came out to see the exhibition last week. First time in Leicester! And hope to return @hgrporg.bsky.social @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social