Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Upcoming events
Each year we host a series of free seminars and lectures which is open to graduates, students, staff and members of the public:
Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026
The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester, Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg, and the Wiener Holocaust Library London are pleased to co-host a virtual event on the 20th of Jan, 6-7pm UK time, for Holocaust Memorial Day 2026. The event is organized in response to the 2026 HMD theme ‘Bridging Generations’.
As Holocaust survivors become fewer, an urgent question comes into focus: how do we remember those who were murdered when living witnesses are no longer with us?
Dr Hannah Wilson, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, will introduce a case study from her current research: the home of Steven Frank, a Dutch Jewish child survivor and later Holocaust educator, as a domestic archive.
Deborah Jaffé will discuss how the discovery of letters, documents and objects led to a reappraisal of her father’s and grandparents’ lives in and escape from 1930s Germany.
Svenja Bethke, Associate Professor of Modern European History at the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will contextualize the discussion on material culture and memory in relation to the Holocaust.