Liberec – Pachatelé a odplata | Perpetrators and Retribution

with Kateřina Králová, Ivan Rous, Michal Stehlík and Jaromír Mrňka

The memorial site “Památník nacistického barbarství” (Memorial to Nazi Barbarism) was inaugurated on 8 September 1946 in a villa in the northern Bohemian city of Liberec. The villa belonged to a Jewish entrepreneur until 1938 and served afterwards as the residence of Nazi Gauleiter Konrad Henlein. We will discuss lapses in historical memory as well as the challenges exhibitions face today.

Place: North Bohemian Museum in Liberec

Language: Czech with translation into German

Participation: on site, via Zoom or YouTube live stream

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Facing Nazi Crimes: European Perspectives after 1945

This European event series explores the social and historical contexts of the early exhibitions on Nazi crimes organised between 1945 and 1948. The series will unfold in the cities where these exhibitions were originally held – Paris, Warsaw, London, Liberec and Bergen-Belsen – and will conclude in Berlin. How did the exhibitions relate to the early visual, documentary, legal, political, and historical efforts to address the German occupation and its crimes? How were they received and what influence did they have on today’s culture of remembrance?

Over the course of six evenings, key aspects of the early exhibitions – their origins and their impact – will be presented and discussed with experts from local institutions.