International Conference of the “Mauthausen Survivors Research Project” Vienna, November 27-29, 2008
The MSRP’s major sources are interviews conducted by the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project (MSDP) in the years 2001-2003, a collection comprising c. 860 interviews from 23 different countries. The MSDP was one of the largest oral history projects on survivors of a single concentration camp system. The interview sample reflects roughly the national and political proportions among the prisoners of Mauthausen, the hierarchy in the camp and the gender proportions. Through comparative analysis of these life story interviews MSRP aims at
The first international conference of MSRP will concentrate on the different life stories of Mauthausen prisoners until their imprisonment in Mauthausen concentration camp. We will therefore analyse the socio-political contexts in which these men and women lived in all over Europe and draw the lines of their routes into Mauthausen. We will also try to highlight similarities and differences of Nazi occupation policy, of forms of repression and deportation in different European countries, depending on the ideological and racial policies implemented in the occupied territories. How people reacted individually and collectively with resistance, collaboration or conformity. And how Nazi policies and reactions affected the lives of individuals. Reports from different European countries should reflect the relations between decisions made by both the occupiers and the occupied and the individual life stories of those who were deported into Mauthausen concentration camp as well as the ways in which the pre-history of the camp experience is remembered by the survivors. Methodologically the conference will combine the analysis of Oral History sources with Realgeschichte and quantitative approaches. The conference is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 27 – Sat., Nov. 29, 2008 at the Programme
Thursday, November 27 Public opening
session: "Humanity
and the Experience of Violence and Genocide" Friday, November 28 Opening session: Outline of the “Mauthausen Survivors Research Project” National Socialist occupation policies and the extermination of the European Jews Panel 1: Persecution inside the German Reich before World War II Panel 2: Occupation and persecution in East Central Europe Panel 3: Occupied countries in Western Europe Panel 4: Occupied countries in South Eastern Europe Saturday, November 29 Panel 5: Inmates from the Soviet Union Panel 6: Inmates from countries with collaboration regimes Panel 7: Quantitative Analysis of Data and constructing ideal types and “typical” trajectories Final discussion: Results and lines of further research Boltzmann
Lecture Hall
Thursday, November 27 Public opening session: "Humanity
and the Experience of Violence and Genocide" Friday, November 28 Opening session: Outline of the “Mauthausen Survivors Research Project” National Socialist occupation policies and the extermination of the European Jews Panel 1: Persecution inside the German Reich before World War II Panel 2: Occupation and persecution in East Central Europe Panel 3: Occupied countries in Western Europe Panel 4: Occupied countries in South Eastern Europe Saturday, November 29 Panel 5: Inmates from the Soviet Union Panel 6: Inmates from countries with collaboration regimes Panel 7: Quantitative Analysis of Data and constructing ideal types and “typical” trajectories Final discussion: Results and lines of further research
List of participants (solicited): Helga
Amesberger (Institute of Conflict Research Vienna,
Austria)
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