CANCELLED: Daniel Lee: "Writing the Story of One Roundup of Jews in the Holocaust: Marseille, January 1943"
- Date: 15 October 2024, 10:15–12:00
- Location: SCAS, Thunberg Lecture Hall, Linneanum, Villavägen 6c, Uppsala
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Daniel Lee
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- Organiser: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
- Contact person: Mattias Bolkéus Blom
Please note that the event has been cancelled. A new date is to be announced.
Daniel Lee (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study & Queen Mary University of London) will give a seminar on the topic "Writing the Story of One Roundup of Jews in the Holocaust: Marseille, January 1943". The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session.
ABSTRACT:
My new research project examines the roundup of Jews, criminals, and prostitutes in Marseille in January 1943 as the key moment of the Holocaust in France. To decentre the July 1942 Vél d’Hiv roundup of Jews in Paris, and focus instead on Marseille, offers a new way to understand mass violence during the Holocaust. A micro-historical case study of Marseille considers other sections of France’s Jewish population which remain invisible when placing a Parisian and Ashkenazic-centric version of events at the heart of the narrative. Using the life trajectories of lower-ranking Nazis, to chart how ideas developed in ghettos and killing fields of eastern Europe were transferred and put into practice in Marseille, exposes the transnational nature of the Nazis’ Final Solution in a place with which it is seldom associated: the Mediterranean. This project employs archival sources in France, Germany and Israel, some of which have only recently been declassified.