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1:00 evidence at trial from historian David Olusoga regarding Colston's ownership of more slaves than any other Brit in history, one of the earliest, biggest slave traders 

1:30 Colston died circa 1720 

1:45 statue of Colston erected by Victorian dignitaries in Bristol

2:10 half of the schools, streets and whatever in Bristol are named after Colston

2:20 circa 1990s, true history of Colston revealed

3:25 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests group pushed Colston statue into the harbor 

3:45 restorative justice by others with community penalty

3:55 Colston 4 jury trial over prosecution of four individuals involved in toppling Colston statute

4:05 Elected for a Crown Court jury trial and were acquitted

5:20 Conservatives and those in the government, including the cabinet, expressed surprise at the verdict

6:10 UK Attorney General considered whether to send the case to the appeal court to consider whether there was an error of law in the direction of the jury

7:50 bill going through Parliament with a provision to increase the potential sentence for criminal damage against a public monument

8:15 proposed bill to change threshold that currently exists for criminal damage against a memorial or public monument with value under 5000 pounds, maximum sentence magistrates that could  impose was three months in prison

8:50 proposed bill is to remove financial threshold and make maximum sentence 10 years

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To learn more, please visit the website for Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC.

Show Notes:

0:01 scientific methods in London/Berlin to understand/preserve cultural heritage since 19th Century 

2:30 history of cultural heritage science 

4:00 founding Scientific Analysis of Fine Art LLC (SAFA) 

5:40 Yves Tanguy’s Fraud in the Garden

5:50 catalogue raisonné by art historians Charles Stuckey/Stephen Mack

6:10 fascist attack at screening of Luis Bunuel’s satiric “L’Age d’Oro” 

7:00 use of multi-spectral imaging on Fraud in the Garden - ultraviolet light and infrared radiation, x-rays to view slash pattern on painting

7:45 restorations on Fraud in the Garden dated through pigments/paint binders

9:00 value of artwork as historical documents v. restoration  

9:45 cultural heritage as historical documents example of Victoria & Albert Museum

10:45 display of Rothko Murals at Harvard 

11:45 analysis for attribution questions varies between antiquities, paintings, decorative art objects

13:20 non-destructive drive for protocols for elemental and molecular analysis

14:00 changes to work by Van Gogh and Met’s Irises and Roses

14:30 geranium lake known as Eosin red

15:00 paints like cadmium/chromium yellows from Industrial Revolution are also very sensitive to light and relative humidity

15:15 changes in Matisse’s 4 versions of Joy of Life – yellows fading to ivory white

15:30 mechanism of degradation 

16:20 Picasso's 1901 The Blue Room 

17:30 Cezanne

18:15 analysis of over 900 paint tubes from Munch

19:30 paints standardized in 1920s 

21:00 flaking of zinc white: reaction of zinc oxide with oil creates crystalized molecules - zinc soaps

21:25 titanium white 

23:00 heavy metal pigment paints strongly absorb x-rays like lead white/vermillion (a mercury sulfide red) prevent seeing underpainting

24:45 head of scientific vetting committee for TEFAF New York 

27:15 Court of Arbitration for Art 

28:35 trusting science for due diligence 

30:30 stigma  attached to use of science 

33:00 Bard Graduate Center

34:00 wooden polychrome sculpture analysis: dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

36:00  dirty dozen paint list

36:45 mixing drying linseed with non-drying oil paint (sunflower)

37:50 Eosin red, emerald green, cadmium yellow, chromium yellow, vermillion, copper blues  

38:50 favorite paintings 

39:10 Modigliani  at the Barnes 

39:45 Modigliani’s palette 

40:35 The Burlington Magazine 

41:10  Klimt’s Faculty Paintings 

42:30 computational technologies 

43:00  justice

43:45 invention of photography enabled Jacob Riis to document New York slums 

44:00 20th Century photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine

44:20 BLM 

44:30 environmental justice  

45:40 recommendations 

46:55 legacy to create scientific literacy for art conservators and historians

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The following are links used in preparation of this episode:

https://verlorene-generation.com/en/kuenstler/felka-platek/

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/pdf-drupal/en/education/newsletter/yv_magazine18_10-11.pdf

http://www.find-felka-find-felix.info/index_en.html

https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/news-archive/international-auschwitz-committee-commemorates-artist-couple-felka-platek-and-felix

https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/felix-nussbaum.html

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/nussbaum/about_nussbaum.asp

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To learn more, please visit David de Jong's website.

Show Notes:

3:30 overview of Nazi Billionaires

5:15 families included in Nazi Billionaires control companies like BMW and Porche whitewashing patriarchs’ legacies

6:15 moral and historical reconstruction – acknowledging what’s transpired in history

9:00 Quandt dynasty and BMW Group

10:00 Flick dynasty and Daimler-Benz

11:10: Von Finck and Allianz and Munich Re 

11:45 Porsche-Piëch - Volkswagen, Porsche, Bentley                                                       

13:40 Oetkers - baking powder, cake mixes, Germany’s largest beer brewery, one of Europe’s largest sparkling wine manufacturers, luxury hotels

14:00 Flick’s conviction of war crimes and post-war business success

19:20 Flick released on good behavior and saw himself as wrongfully convicted

20:30 Ferry Porsche’s autobiography We At Porsche

22:30 Rosenberger’s post-war settlement with Porsche

23:30 Porsche Sales & Marketing Representative Joachim Peiper’s death sentence commuted for the Malmedy Massacre of U.S. Army POWs

24:45 English version of We At Porsche

25:30 German version of We At Porsche

26:00 Porsche AG spokesperson and head of Porsche Foundation Dr. Sebastian Rudolph 

28:30 research for Nazi Billionaires for 4 years starting in 2017 

29:00 archive availability and Fold 3 access

30:30 German academic reporting of Nazi family histories

32:00 breadth and depth of families’ collaboration with Third Reich

33:00 Reimann family emerge in 2019 as Germany’s second wealthiest family 

36:50 Reimann family’s Alfred Landecker Foundation 

38:20 German family Bahlsen’s study expected summer 2023

39:20 ignorant remarks by Verena Bahlsen

41:00 how current ignorance and historical distortion are related to overlooking war crimes

41:50 dynasties’ lean on notion of collective guilt

46:00 de Jong’s family experience 

47:00 Artist Max van Dam

49:30 his family experience makes him mindful of history 

51:00 his motivation to get these stories out

51:50 plans for a second book about dynasties that shaped the U.S. and the Netherlands 

52:50 evolution of his definition of justice over the course of writing Nazi Billionaires

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The featured image is titled red light, acrylic on canvas, 9"x12", Yelena Khajekian. Image: © and TM Yelena Khajekian. All rights reserved.
 

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Cover photo of Menachem Kaiser by Beowulf Sheehan.

To learn more, please visit the website for Menacham Kaiser and Plunder.

Show Notes:

2:00 genesis of Plunder: A Memoir of family property and Nazi treasure

4:00 the memoir by Abraham Kajser

6:45 Kajser’s experience as a forced laborer during WWII in underground camp structures in Poland that were given the code name Project Riese 

7:30 Polish version and Hebrew version of Kajser’s memoir

8:45 political decisions in what stories are given attention

10:30 the writer’s mandate to create work that’s honest

11:20 he went on a Fulbright to Lithuania

11:50 his unexpected research on the Vilna Ghetto

12:30 lessons missed in Holocaust education

13:00 his revelation of how morally and historically complicated and interesting the Holocaust is

14:00 Jews’ self-governance in ghettos included trials and hangings

15:00 How the ‘politics memory’ differs in countries like Lithuania and Poland

17:00 The arc of his thoughts on the moral and ethical questions raised by his inheritance claim for his grandfather’s building

21:00 status of his inheritance claim for his grandfather’s building

22:00 move by mayor of Sosnowiec to claim his grandfather’s building

25:30 Nationalist shift in Poland, resulting in failed/dismissed property claims

27:00 response to Plunder in Poland

28:30 KARTA publisher of Plunder in Poland 

30:00 the challenges he dealt with in researching the book 

31:50 research into forced displacement of Germans after WWII

34:30 myth-soaked Silesia became a character in the book

36:30 archive from Vilnius, Lithuania

38:00 David Fishman’s The Book Smugglers

40:00 value of archives in digitized form versus physical form

41:00 Vilnius archive re-surfaced in the late 1980s/early 1990s 

43:00 arts programs in the Vilna ghetto during WWII

43:30 Artist Samuel Bak

44:00 Poet Abraham Sutzkever

44:15 Protest songs by poet, musician, writer and activist Szmerke Kaczerginski

44:40 civil war rumblings in Vilna ghetto

46:50 Jacob Gens, head of the Vilna ghetto government

47:45 death of Itzik Wittenberg, Hero of the Vilna Ghetto / leader of the Resistance

49:30 anti-Semitism in Poland

50:30 his thoughts on how the justice system is designed to frustrate efforts 

52:15 his thoughts on how his legacy is being shaped as a writer

57:00 his current project related to an ongoing story in Montreal that involves allegations of hiding 4B in Nazi gold.

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The following are links used to prepare this episode:

https://verlorene-generation.com/en/kuenstler/julie-wolfthorn/

https://www.lostwomenart.de/en/artist/julie-wolfthorn/

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Julie_Wolfthorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Wolfthorn

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To learn more, please visit the website for Ms. Sliwa.

Show Notes:

2:45 inspiration for her career as a historian of the Holocaust and Polish Jewish history

4:30 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

6:50 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference)

8:00 Claims Conference’s work on behalf of elderly survivors

10:00 current issues blocking claims that she’s encountered and how they differ between countries

12:00 history of the plunder and anti-restitution approach/laws in Poland

16:00 definition of who is a survivor for restitution purposes, e.g., exclusion of Jews who were in hiding during WWII from receiving pensions

17:45 lack of understanding and education about the gravity of the theft and restitution issues from WWII

19:00 claims like Menachem Kaiser 

20:20 attitudes and behaviors towards Holocaust survivors and why claims are still ongoing

23:00 heirless property

24:00 JUST Act report’s findings on Poland about archives 

26:00 It Is Still Night authors Historian Jan Grabowski and Professor Barbara Engelking

30:00 pursuit of the ‘Politics of Memory’ by the current government in Poland, Law and Justice as a distortion of Holocaust history

35:00 example of how Holocaust history is distorted: Poland’s commemoration of a Polish railway worker who is said to have given water to Jews in boxcars en route to Treblinka versus acknowledging Poles who robbed Jews in boxcars in exchange for water

41:00 Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust

43:45 historical drama film Schindler’s List

45:45 Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe by Deborah Dwork

47:00 Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Poles during the Holocaust co-authored with Dr. Elizabeth (Barry) White, expert on Majdanek Concentration Camp

52:00 genealogy methods supplemented research for Counterfeit Countess

56:15 The Beginning of the Holocaust in Poland 1939-1941? Other upcoming projects?

59:15 how Dr. Sliwa defines justice and how she sees her work facilitating justice 

1:30:00 Dr. Sliwa’s hope for her legacy: to educate and inspire future scholars of all genocide

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To learn more, please visit Marisabina Russo's website. 
 
Show Notes:

2:00 A Visit With Oma

2:45 A House of Sports

3:30 Always Remember Me

3:45 I Will Come Back For You

4:00 Why Is Everybody Yelling? Growing Up In My Immigrant Family

5:00 Graphic memoir about cancer

7:00 Research at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC

7:40 Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation 

8:00 Research in Italy

8:25 Her brother’s identification of his murdered father

10:30 Immigration experience and being a child of divorced parents

12:30 Jewish Book Council Review 

15:30 Sainthood

17:25 German and Yiddish included in graphic novel

18:30 Bengasi 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina 

22:30 Cats of Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse

22:35 Nicky & Vera by Peter Sís 

22:50 No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel 

24:45 German program for Holocaust victims to visit Germany

25:20 Visit to Leipzig, Germany

25:45 Gewandhaus - opera and classical music venue in Leipzig, Germany

27:30 how her books work towards historical justice 

29:00 Why books dealing with war are important for young readers

31:15 New York City’s Tenement Museum

32:10 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

32:45 how Ms. Russo’s definition of justice has evolved; that justice is for all

33:30 Quote from James Baldwin “It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

34:50 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

35:25 After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman 

36:00 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

36:40 Maus by Art Spiegelman

37:40 Can We Talk About Something More Pleasant by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast 

38:00 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel 

38:05 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

38:15 Linda Barry’s books

38:30 Her recent appearance on comic creator panels in NYC 

39:30 El Deafo by CeCe Bell 

40:00 Spiegelman’s comments on not doing another Maus book

42:20 current book dummy project  

42:30 Fiber Artist Liz Albert Fay collaboration for ‘Extraordinary Women’ project viewable on Instagram

45:15 her first book The Line Up Book 

45:35 House of Sports was a turn from picture books 

46:05 Always Remember Me was her first time addressing the Holocaust in a book

48:00 the passing of her Tante Annie 

50:45 Tante’s response about prayer during her time in Auschwitz 

53:30 The legacy of her work: to act as a bridge from the former generation to the next generations 

55:10 two letters her mother received from employer who was forced to fire her that evidence the reality of the Holocaust era

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The following are links used to prepare this episode, including the research of Dr. Elizabeth Otto:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/cAXBuNF0R1tPNw

https://www.frauenkunst.at/de/maler/korner/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Kramrisch

https://www.hatjecantz.de/the-bauhaus-in-calcutta-5790-1.html

https://www.hindustantimes.com/kolkata/at-home-with-the-bauhaus/story-kLwp69R1IBUxCS806vfyEM.html

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