Special Webinar | Holocaust Studies in Translation: Book Launch for Maria Ferenc’s “Everyone Asks What Will Happen to Us”

The next EHRI webinar is part of a special series Holocaust Studies in Translation and organised together with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Join us for the launch of the English language edition of Maria Ferenc’s Everyone Asks What Will Happen to Us: Inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto and News About the Holocaust. The book was originally published in Polish by the Jewish Historical Institute and is now available in English open access and for purchase from the publisher’s webpage.

Everyone Asks What Will Happen to Us traces how Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto wrestled with questions that had troubled them since the occupation began: when will the war end, and what will become of us? Individually and together, ghetto inhabitants created a picture of the outside world shaped by access to information and meanings attributed to news from different places. Yet the true fate of those deported “to the East” defied comprehension for most ghetto inhabitants as they desperately navigated the space between information and rumors. In Everyone Asks What Will Happen to Us, Ferenc illuminates the victims’ painstaking efforts to uncover the truth, as well as, paradoxically, their own resistance to the growing body of knowledge about the Holocaust.

The program will feature a conversation between Maria Ferenc and Havi Dreifuss, and will be moderated by Justyna Majewska.

You are invited to join this EHRI Webinar on Monday 19 October at 6:00 PM CET by clicking on this Zoom link (please note alternative day and time slot):

https://zoom.us/j/97382779164?pwd=lOvW49hjKK1jP3KIKC29Pqgb5zXaSb.1
Meeting ID: 973 8277 9164 | Passcode: 292693