The Hugo Valentin Lecture 2026: Professor Andrea Löw
The 23rd Hugo Valentin Lecture, titled Writing as Resistance: Documentation during the Holocaust, will be delivered by Professor Andrea Löw, Director of the Centre for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin. The lecture will take place on 15 September.
During the Holocaust, numerous Jews attempted to document what was happening to them and to their communities. Many wrote diaries, though their motivations varied greatly. Others were active in archives in the ghettos and undertook large-scale efforts to document Nazi crimes, as well as the memories, experiences, and lives of themselves and their loved ones. In this lecture, Professor Löw will discuss different forms of writing and documentation during the Holocaust. She explores the relationship between these activities and Jewish resistance movements, asking to what extent acts of documenting, recording, preserving, and bearing witness can be understood as forms of resistance.
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