Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2022 – in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the study of Antisemitism
Forty years after the first edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of the Holocaust was published, this lecture examines four decades of mapping the Holocaust in the analogue and digital age. In part it asks how the Holocaust has been mapped and whether this reveals anything new about this event. But the lecture also poses a broader question. Why should historians and the wider public concern themselves with mapping the past? What role might visualising the places and spaces of the past have as we remember and memorialise the Holocaust, as we write its history and for historical practice in general?
Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute which fosters interdisciplinary research on what it means to be human in the 21st century. His research ranges widely across social, landscape and environmental histories and digital humanities with a focus on the Holocaust and how it is remembered. His books include Holocaust Landscapes (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016); Traces of the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011); and a co-edited collection of essays, arising from a research project he co-led, Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2014).
This lecture will take place on 1 February 2022 online via Zoom. Book now to attend: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/mapping-the-holocaust
Image: Map of SS-designated concentration camps and subcamps, 1933–1945. Each large dot represents the main camp with the smaller dots referencing subcamps. Data source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. 1 [2009]). —Alexander Yule and Anne Kelly Knowles.