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Dr C Weissenberg

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Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg. Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/… Www.fromnumberstonames.com

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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another #EveryNameCounts project from @arolsenarchives.bsky.social Even if you’ve not participated in one of these before - do take a look and see if you can help. It’s very straightforward. A fantastic campaign - do try to join in!
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Petition to stop burning moors for grouse hunting - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Burning Our Moors: Protect our kids, not grouse hunts.
Landowners burn heather for driven grouse shooting, leading to harmful air pollution, increased flood risk, and increased wildfire risk, all while releasing tonnes of carbon into the air, accelerating...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social On the still ongoing, horrific, but little covered war in Sudan. How it illustrates the difficulties of ending wars, and whether there is any route to ending this one. (Free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...
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The Sudan War: is there any way out?
Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascinating to commemorate where the community lived, not only the place of death. It looks stunning; I'd love to visit. I worked hard to locate records of life when researching my family history - a reaction to the fact that what was (relatively) readily available were records of death.
Documents from my father’s years at the university of Breslau enabled me to locate further information about his time there.The K-C fraternity book assisted my search for people whose names I found in my father’s correspondence.
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The Holocaust History Podcast @holocaustpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What is it like to search for a family history shattered by the Holocaust? On the latest episode, I talked with Julie Brill about her work in excavating her father's history during the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. Check it out! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
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Ep. 83- A Family History of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia with Julie Brill - The Holocaust History Podcast
We often hear on this podcast about how historians have sought to recover the past but what is it like trying to do this when you are not a professional? In this episode, I talked with Julie Brill abo...
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Arolsen Archives @arolsenarchives.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On World Children's Day, we remember Isak Gross and the many other orphaned children who were searching for a new home after the war. A newly reunited collection of documents is helping to fill gaps in the search for information about what happened to them: arolsen-archives.org/en/news/orph...
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Orphaned Holocaust Survivors on Their Way to a Foreign Land | Arolsen Archives
When World War II came to an end, hundreds of thousands of young Holocaust survivors were left wandering through the ruins of war-torn Germany and Europe. The United Nations set up a special tracing service for children, tasked with reuniting missing or unaccompanied children with members of their families. Over sixty-four thousand case files created […]
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are now copies of the Leave to Land exhibition at Leo Baeck, NY, touring California, & at Sandwich Guildhall Museum If you want to hire the exhibition, pls contact @wienerlibrary.bsky.social About twice a year, I’m happy to give a talk about the rescue alongside the exhibition - esp for HMD
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are now copies of the Leave to Land exhibition at Leo Baeck, NY, touring California, & at Sandwich Guildhall Museum If you want to hire the exhibition, pls contact @wienerlibrary.bsky.social About twice a year, I’m happy to give a talk about the rescue alongside the exhibition - esp for HMD
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I created (& donated) a 10-panel travelling exhibition, Leave to Land. It's available for hire here: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/l... The exhibition tours regularly throughout the UK, so leave plenty of time if you want to book it for your school, school, community centre, or HMD event.
The top section of one of the Leave to Land exhibition panels on 'Daily Life' at Kitchener. It shows an extract of a cartoon from the Kitchener Camp Review, and a group photograph taken outside one of the refugee accomodation huts.The top section of one of the Leave to Land exhibition panels. It shows some of the documents submitted by families to the Kitchener Camp online project.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The biggest group sent to Australia on the notorious Dunera voyage were refugees from Kitchener camp. They had largely been welcomed by the residents of Sandwich - many made good friends there, who helped the men learn English, and took them into their homes for meals. How we have fallen.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My dad was one of those refugee fighting-age men 👇🏻 Terrifying. Anyway - he enlisted as soon as the refugees were allowed to do so in autumn 1939, was sent to France in January 1940, and served in the British army for the remainder of the war
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Arson attack on Wuppertal synagogue 👇🏻 Vigil to be held in solidarity.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No contemporary news in mind, really…
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No contemporary news in mind, really…
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ivy is fantastic for wildlife – it can support 50 different species. For insects, ivy produces nectar-rich flowers when many other flowers are dying off – and continues blooming right through November. So, if you can, avoid cutting it back in autumn! More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/aut...
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I like a Saturday morning challenge. See if I make it to 17.06!
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10/09/2026
I'm making really good progress now on the public side of the #VisualizingJanowska project. Here's my first intro video!
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last day of the Design Sprint in Nottingham with @ldml.bsky.social It’s been an absolutely compelling event. The areas we’re looking at aren’t really something I can add very much to, but I’m learning a lot and meeting such kind, engaging people. What a privilege to be here.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🚀 Our free digital guide is now live! Last month we launched a new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects. This free arts and culture app is created by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and offers behind the scenes insights and visitor experiences to museums and galleries around the world buff.ly/rburKAQ
Mobile app mockup promoting the Wiener Holocaust Library and its "Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims" exhibition, overlaid with a vintage photograph of children being helped into a vehicle and the Bloomberg Connects logo.
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Landecker Digital Memory Lab @ldml.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today was all about translating ideas into actual things. We started by reviewing yesterday’s solution sketches. There were plenty of strong possibilities, so the challenge was deciding which elements could come together to form clear, shared concepts.
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Landecker Digital Memory Lab @ldml.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
After sharing ideas, defining questions and exploring the National Holocaust Museum, we asked our participants to sum up the first day of the design sprint. Here’s what some of them said.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Shameful, Germany.
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KP.Hardeman @kphardeman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trump 2.0: the British franchise. Not merely the policies—the whole method:cultivate grievance,portray opponents as enemies,encourage a crowd’s ugliness,then smirk when a woman is physically attacked in front of you.Farage didn’t look horrified or attempt to stop it;he mocked her while it happened.
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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For comparison www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Were I the prime minister, right now the chief constable and police & crime commissioner for Kent would be in my office having a meeting strictly without tea or biscuits, and this evening I’d be doing a broadcast reassuring the nation that fascist mobs will not be tolerated on our streets.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This country used to know how to deal with fascists interfering with the peaceful operation of Dover...
Photograph of British servicemen in full panto drag, manning (or possibly daming) a naval gun overlooking the Channel. I'm pretty sure this was taken for propaganda purposes rather than a genuinely spontaneous event - the idea that normal, sometimes silly, life was going on despite (and *to spite*) the Nazis was an important message on the home front.
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Getting quite sick of being expected to tolerate far-right agitators trying to intimidate people by putting up flags with violence last year and now blockading key transport links, while the police and government do nothing.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Funny place, Britain. You never know what round the next corner will hold.
Growler tank just outside a huge stable block, at Thoresby Park, Notts
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I … have questions
A flip-top skull - with many small holes to hold who-knows-what in a military museum in Thoresby Park, Notts.
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scotfi1.bsky.social @scotfi1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Farage can be charged for this legally. Encouraging or assisting a crime under the Serious Crime Act 2007.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
8/ Nigel Farage needs to explain: How many “clandestine” or “off-the-book” projects existed within Reform UK? Who authorised them? Did they involve political spending or benefits that were not disclosed to the Electoral Commission? And crucially: what did he know about them?
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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2027/28. @biajs.bsky.social @biahs1.bsky.social vwi.ac.at/news/news-de...
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Call for Fellowships 2027/28 - Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
Das Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (VWI) gibt die Ausschreibung seiner Fellowships für das Studienjahr 2027/2028 bekannt.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 Work with us! We are seeking an experienced Digitisation Officer to join our Collections Team and support our Digital Transformation Project. The role is advertised on a part-time, permanent basis. Find out more and apply: buff.ly/zV98PS8
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A police decree made on this day in 1941 made it compulsory for all Jews over the age of six in Germany and the occupied territories to wear a yellow Star of David. Our collection contains a multitude of examples of these yellow stars, including from Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Worn yellow Star of David cloth badge, frayed and pinned to aged paper, stamped with the word "Juif" — the identifying badge forced on Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.Two yellow Star of David patches marked "Jude," worn by Nazi authorities to identify and segregate Jewish people during the Holocaust.Yellow cloth patch showing a black Star of David with the word "Jood" (Dutch for "Jew") printed in the center, a forced-identification badge used to mark Jewish people under Nazi occupation.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we approach the new academic year, our educational and outreach team are available to offer a variety of tours, workshops and talks to school, university, adult learner and community groups. Find out more about how you can learn from our valuable collections: buff.ly/0B30pHg
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happening next week! Sign up for tickets now: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-t...
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Stoic Thinker @stoicthinker2025.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
By the limited media coverage, you'd never know this is an existential crisis. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/c...
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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good mooooorning Bluesky! We have rain. We have some greening of the grass. We have drenched, bedraggled baby squirrels that don’t know what’s going on or how to stay dry. Things are … kind of normalising.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Friend with Benefits
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/08/2026
Today is the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine. Let’s honor those who stood in defense of this country and gave their lives to protect it. Eternal glory to every fallen Hero. 🕯️🇺🇦
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Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership @hgrporg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A new publication has just been released from editors Dan Stone and Johannes-Dieter Steinert with a chapter from Christine Schmidt @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, titled 'Refugees, Survivors, Archives: The Wiener Library in 1960's Britain' Learn more here: bit.ly/4zEN7QU @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📣 Join us on 11 October for an online lecture with the winner of this year's Ernst Fraenkel Prize! Amber Nickell will be discussing her work, Brotherlands to Bloodlands: Ethnic Germans and Jews in Southern Ukraine, Late Tsarist to Postwar Free tickets: buff.ly/XcRQeBw
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Landecker Digital Memory Lab @ldml.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📣 We’re hiring! Join us in helping to ensure the sustainability of Holocaust memory in the digital age. Find out more and apply: www.digitalmemorylab.com/we-are-hirin...
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We Are Hiring! Communications and Events Officer Needed.
Communications and Events Officer Ref: 43652 (Fixed Term) Apply for this job Location Brighton, UK Hours Full time, 36.5 hours per week Requests for flexible working options will be considered (s...
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Art 116 citizenship 👇🏻 Germany - don’t be so shameful. This shouldn’t even be a risk.
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Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 25/08/2026
Also just to be very clear: the AfD have normalised and mainstreamed support for the far-right, but as @okwonga.bsky.social points out, they are the face of a broader movement. At the AfD rally last Sunday, there were many families who brought their kids, standing alongside people with Nazi tattoos.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Or ‘nature enthusiasts’ could … stay away so they don’t end up destroying the environment and its creatures that they say they love, fgs 🙄
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Landecker Digital Memory Lab @ldml.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meet Dr Clare Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social, the designer and editor of the Kitchener Camp Project and ‘Leave to Land’. We look forward to welcoming Clare, learning from her perspective and seeing how her ideas develop through collaboration with the rest of the group.
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Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 24/08/2026
“For generations as a nation we've drained wetlands, straightened rivers and moved water off the land as quickly as possible. Here, we've reversed that approach and the results are remarkable." Aerial images of Holnicote in Somerset reveal the benefits of rewilding: bit.ly/4g9Linx
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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