Sites of the Shoah in Poland. Then and Now

29. March - 12. April 2026
Organizer: Katrin Stoll, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

As part of the project ‘Pathfinders? Polish-born Survivor-Researchers and their Place in the Production of Holocaust Historiography in Poland and Beyond’, Dr Katrin Stoll (project leader) is organising a student excursion and a workshop titled ‘Sites of the Shoah in Poland. Then and Now’.

The students are visiting key sites of the Shoah in Poland and will discuss the history and aftermath of these places and the people connected to them.

Please find a part of the programme below:

I. Field research and study tour with Elżbieta Janicka (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa)

31 March 2026: Treblinka and the surrounding area: Lecture: Denialism Polish style. The case of the Treblinka site
01 April 2026: Kosów Lacki: Lecture: The symbolic topography of the open ghetto & the Restghetto in Kosów Lacki
02 April 2026: Kosów Lacki and the surrounding area: Lecture: A cultural critique of antisemitic narratives and practices at the killing sites of Jews

II. Historische Forschung in situ und Dokumentationspraktiken // (Hotel Ibis Centrum, al. Solidarności 165)

03 April 2026

Marie Bullerschen (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Unsere Heimat, nasze ziemie. Nationales placemaking in spätsozialistischen Wanderführern – ein Werkstattbericht

Felix Schulte (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Historische Feldforschung in der Praxis - Vom Quellenstudium zur Spurensuche im Gelände

Isabelle Mümpfer & Luise Schlieben (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Das Konzentrationslager für Juden in Warschau (1943–1944)