Larissa Allwork - Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force

Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational

The Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the International Task Force

Larissa Allwork

Bloomsbury Academic

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Thanks must first go to Royal Holloways History department for their generous granting of a Thomas Holloway Research Scholarship (20069) and a Helen Cam Travel Award (2008) to fund my research, Holocaust Memory for the Millennium (2011) which forms the basis of Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (HRNT). I was also privileged to gain a Fellowship to the Holocaust Educational Foundations Fourteenth Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, Illinois (22 June3 July 2009). Here I not only met some wonderful people but also benefited from the tuition offered by Doris Bergen, Roger Brooks, Dagmar Herzog, Sara Horowitz, Paul Jaskot, Stuart Liebman, John K. Roth, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and James Waller. Closer to home, I was fortunate to be offered a bursary to attend Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robert Fines informative and thought-provoking Theory for a Global Age Summer School at Warwick University (610 July 2009). The insights from this course have been inscribed in , which explores the New Cosmopolitan intellectual context for interpreting the SIF 2000.

I would also like to thank my supervisor, Zo Waxman who has offered me invaluable intellectual advice and has supported me since the start of my career as a History undergraduate at Mansfield College, Oxford. During Zos maternity leave, I was supervised by David Cesarani and I am extremely grateful for his insightful and astute comments on the research process, my chapter drafts as well as David and Dawn Cesaranis continued support of me following the completion of my doctorate. I was also fortunate to benefit from the intellectual stimulation at Royal Holloways Holocaust Research Centre and the helpful comments given on my project, specifically chapter five, by Dan Stone. For intellectual discussions and debates in more relaxed surroundings, I would also like to thank my fellow colleagues at Royal Holloway: Esther Jilovsky, Andy Pearce, Rachel Pistol, Rachel Century, Vivi Lachs, Dan Tilles and many others. HRNT has also been significantly shaped by the close reading and helpful comments offered by my PhD examiners, David Feldman and Isabel Wollaston. It also needs to be mentioned that different elements of my work on the SIF 2000. This includes the patience, efficiency and support of my editors at Bloomsbury, Rhodri Mogford and Emma Goode.

It also goes without saying that this book could not have been written without the consent of my interviewees who generously gave their time during the research process: Suzanne Bardgett, Yehuda Bauer, Stphane Bruchfeld, David Cesarani, Karel Fracapane, Eva Fried, Trudy Gold, Jerry Gotel, Kitty Hart-Moxon, Ben Helfgott, Paul Levine, Kathrin Meyer and Stephen Smith. I would also like to thank the ITF/IHRA; Eva Fried, Marcel Rdstrm and Johan Perwe at The Living History Forum as well as Rachel Kostanian, Neringa Latvyt-Gustaitien, Milada Jakulyt-Vasil and Lukas Dnser at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and Sigitas Mitkus at the Lithuanian Embassy in London. I am also grateful for the support of Matt Feldman, Paul Jackson, Dan Jones (Searchlight Archivist) and the History Division at the University of Northampton, which offered me a temporary part-time lecturing post in the summer of 2010 and the spring of 2011. Since May 2012, I have been working at the University of Northampton School of the Arts as part of the EU Marie-Curie funded Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging International Training Network (CoHaB). This position combined with broader research duties at the School of the Arts has financially supported my further postdoctoral training and the final completion of my monograph. My role at the School of the Arts also facilitated my participation in the Holocaust Remembrance Re-Visited conference at Uppsala University, Sweden (2123 March 2013) as well as my Santander funded trip as part of the Trauma, Narrative and Performance Working Group to the University of Zaragozas Acts of Remembrance conference (2426 April 2013). My thanks go to the Director of Research, Janet Wilson; the Head of English, Richard Canning; my Trauma Working Group colleague, Sonya Andermahr; the English Division; my CoHaB colleagues; the MY119 postgraduate crew and the School of the Arts team.

Finally, the writing of this book has greatly benefited from the support of my family and friends. Affectionate appreciation goes out to Fran Turner, Alex Roberts, Frances Holloway, May Ahmed, Polly Bull, Eloise Donnelly, Abigail Etchells and Miranda and Matthew Mellor. I would also like to thank John and Elizabeth Ripley, the Huddlestones, Peter Darch, Peter Rowlands, Rachael Wallach, Lorraine Shakesheff, Amy Goldby, Abi Gbodimowo, Holly Fairclough and Rob Drinkwater for their friendship and support. However, the biggest thank-you of all must go to my family, especially my mum, Faye, my dad, Stephen, my brother, Bryn and my nan, Eileen. Your unwavering love, generosity and patience have made the completion of this book possible.

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