Help me to get home: Flims, Fundraising, and Europe's Holocaust Survivors APPROVED INT100/201
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
7:00 p.m.
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Community, Faculty
The story of how Jewish organizations used film to meet the staggering needs of Holocaust survivors and refugees will be the subject of a lecture at GVSU’s Loosemore Auditorium on Wednesday April 10th at 7pm by Dr. Simone Gigliotti, of Royal Holloway, University of London. Based upon her recent open access, digital book project, Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced (Indiana University Press, 2023), her talk will explore “photographic, cinematic, and visual material that was created and re-used between 1933-1949” to promote both rescue and refuge.
Groups like the American Joint Distribution Committee and the United Jewish Appeal used film to raise funds for survivors, anticipating the ways in which UNICEF or Save the Children would later employ television and how, in our social-media-dominated times, nearly all charitable organizations depend upon the promotional resources of Facebook, Instagram, even TikTok to meet their financial and political goals.
Simone Gigliotti is Reader in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her books, scholarly articles, and chapters address the spatialities of the Holocaust, transport-induced displacement, cultural geography, and Jewish refugee diasporas. She is author of The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (Berghahn Books, 2009) and editor of six books, including (with Tim Cole) Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century, Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age (Northwestern University Press, 2021); (with Hilary Earl) A Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020); and The Memorialization of Genocide (Routledge, 2016).
Location Information
Loosemore Auditorium
Contact Information
Professor Rob Franciosi
English/Honors
francior@gvsu.edu/ 616-331-3069
Hosting Department, Organization, or Business
Joseph Stevens Freedom Endowment, Jewish Federation of Grand Rapids, Frederik Meijer Honors College
Tags
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This event was added to the calendar by Rob Franciosi (francior@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, April 4, 2024 and was last updated on Friday, April 5, 2024 at 8:34 a.m.
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