The symposium explores in four lectures the history of the "exception ghetto" Terezín from four different angles. Wolfgang Benz, Berlin, speaks about Terezín as a place of deception and destruction; Inka Bertz, Berlin, considers the visual artists imprisoned there; Anna Hájková, Warwick, analyzes the ghetto as a place of unequals , and Hanno Loewy , Hohenems, examines the cinematic and photographic propaganda in the Terezín, Warsaw, and Lodz ghettos.
11 am
Terezín - A Story of Deception and Destruction
Wolfgang Benz, Berlin
12 pm
Jeunesse Dorée of the Holocaust - The Ghetto as a Society of Unequals
Anna Hájková, Warwick
1 pm
Lunch
2 pm
Drawing in Terezín
Inka Bertz
3 pm
Ghetto and Propaganda or: How Differently can you Portray Hell?
A Reflection on Terezín, Warsaw, and Lodz in Nazi Media
Hanno Loewy , Hohenems
4.30 pm
Reception
When: Sunday, 2 March 2014, 11 am to 5 pm
Where: Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin, Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission: free
Registration: email Signe Rossbach, s.rossbach[at]jmberlin.de