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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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Please visit the website for Arté Util to learn more.

SHOW NOTES:

0:02:20 overview of Arté Util

0:08:00 projects prior to Arté Util

0:14:00 Arté Util archive and museum

0:24:00 museum 3.0 

0:24:30 vocabulary created for Arté Util

0:32:00 ‘expert culture’ term to be retired

0:36:00 the work of Dr. Gemma Medina and Alessandra Saviotti under the lens of usership

0:46:00 project applications

0:51:00 Please Love Austria project and Foreigners Out film 

0:57:45 Alternative Energy Argentinian project

1:01:45 why art should be put into useful aspect

1:04:15 how Arté Util facilitates justice through its collaborative aspect

1:06:00 U.S. prisoners photo project

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To learn more, please visit The Art Unit's website.

SHOW NOTES:         

1:40 reason for founding The Art Unit to make art more accessible for collectors and creatives

4:45 Ukrainian artist Nataliia Verbova based in Germany

5:00 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova fled Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and recently fled Kharkiv

5:30 Ukrainian artist Bohdan Svyrydov

7:00 Ukrainian artist Sergiy Kondratiuk and his series of Soviet porcelain figurines

10:15 Challenges Ukrainians face with misappropriation of culture

12:50 The Gates of Europe by Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy 

13:40 Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko

14:15 weaponization of culture and history

14:45 works by Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko damaged by Russian war

16:00 oppression of Ukrainian culture and history

17:20 Homeward by directed by Nariman Aliev and Crimean Tartars

18:35 Importance of art in times of war

19:20 Ukrainian artist Olena Shtepura

19:50 Ukrainian artist Polina Shcherbyna 

20:15 Charcoal swirl mother and child

20:25 Artists acting as a conscience for society

21:20 Ukrainian artist Margo Sarkisova’s war diary – works on paper employing symbolic imagery

22:40 utility of art versus photography 

24:00 war photographer Maksim Levin

24:40 Timur Dzhafarov aka John Object’s war diary on Instagram

26:00 The Art Unit’s impact on culture by helping to raise the voices of emerging artists

28:00 Change in her definition of justice

30:00 Russian propaganda that war is only targeting military bases 

31:10 art addressing war by Olena Shtepura

31:20 art addressing war by Polina Shcherbyna with real & surreal imagery

32:00 works to come that will interprete the war as the war will continue to be a main topic

33:00 multiple generations of Ukrainians have experienced war

33:20 art creating the language to go forward with Russia as the neighbor after the war 

35:45 looting during the war

36:15 how to deal with the destruction of Ukraine when she returns

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The following are links used to prepare this episode:

https://thehistoryofpaintingrevisited.weebly.com/broncia-koller-pinell.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U49KvXAM-IY

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/koller-pinell-broncia

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The following are links to Nuremberg: The Trial of Nazi War Criminals, 4AM Kyiv Is Bombed, Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow and Reykjavik.

Show Notes:

0:42 war crimes in Ukraine and disappointment that America is not a member of the ICC.

3:00 Jonathan Myerson’s reasons for writing Nuremberg: the Trial of Nazi War Criminals

5:00 issues that almost kept Nuremberg trial from happening, including Winston Churchill’s disinterest in having a trial

7:45 Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg by Dr. Francine Hirsch 

9:45 indictment of the wrong Krupp. 

10:20 speed of the trial after VE Day in May 1945

11:35 one structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to show the trial from the ground up

12:50 another structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to focus on what the defendants caused in Europe not about the defendants 

14:30 how witnesses were selected to include in the podcast

15:00 Episodes 5 and 6 include what it was like to hear from witnesses about the mass killing concentration camps for the first time 

18:30 British bureaucratic coping in collection of evidence 

20:00 Hadassah Binco, mother of Belsen – use of her testimony from the Belsen trial

21:30 Hermann Graebe’s testimony about witnessing mass shooting site in Ukraine

22:30 closing by British Chief Prosecutor Lord Hartley William Shawcross 

24:45 feedback from Nuremberg podcast

27:00 This Is Your country Too podcast - seven plays about child refugees

29:00 Britian’s poor approach to accepting immigrants from Ukraine now and during WWII, Kindertransport

30:20 Lebanon, the Syrian army, Civil War 

31:45 Ukraine podcast play, 4AM Kyiv is Bombed

33:30 Lviv otherwise known as Lemberg, otherwise known as Lvov

34:30 Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

35:30 Ukrainian National Police Facebook page

37:30 his work serves to remind us about historical events

38:30 Payback about the 1973 Yom Kippur War and US’s decision to re-arm Israel

40:00 Reykjavik podcast - meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev 

40:45 Francis Fukuyama's End of History

41:30 Star Wars program

42:00 a wider understanding of justice 

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Show notes:

1:25 historian David Olusoga determined Colston owned more slaves than any other Brit in history, one of the earliest biggest slave traders 

1:50 Colston died circa 1720 

2:10 statue to Colston erected by the Victorian sort of dignitaries in Bristol

2:30 half of the schools, streets and whatever in Bristol are named after Colston

2:45 circa 1990s, true history of Colston revealed

3:25 in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests

3:50 group pushed Colston statue into the harbor then a prosecution of four individuals

4:05 restorative justice by others with community penalty

4:15 Colston 4 jury trial

4:45 Elected for a Crown Court jury trial and were acquitted

5:30 Conservatives and those in the government, including the cabinet, expressed surprise at the verdict

6:30 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

8:30 bill going through Parliament with a provision to increase the potential sentence for criminal damage against a public monument

8:55 bill means that for criminal damage against a memorial or public monument with value under 5000 pounds, maximum sentence magistrates can impose will be three months in prison

9:50 proposed bill is to remove financial threshold and make maximum sentence 10 years

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