מכון המחקר ליהדות זמננו מזמין אתכם להרצאתו של דוד ג'וזף על ספרו: Burgenland, Village Secrets and the First Tremors
of the Holocaust

"When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday, and devised a somewhat particular gift from the Austrian people, the elimination of Jewish life in the Burgenland, picturesque farming country about 70 km south-east of Vienna. Eichmann took note of the brutal methodology. The Holocaust had begun.

Burgenland is an astonishing survey of Jewish history in Central Europe, an account of the opening salvo of what turned into the systematic industrial scale genocide of European Jewry, a stern examination of British policy and the world’s wholly inadequate response. It is also a deeply personal memoir and family history, carrying the reader along the author’s own remarkable journey of discovery."...for further reading

Moderator: Dr. Oded Steinberg, European Studies and International Relations