About this Event
This joint presentation by historians Bruno Garbari and Zoltán Kékesi highlights a new collection of survivor interviews recorded at the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires as well as interviews with ordinary German-Argentinians from the oral history collection Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies, held at The Wiener Holocaust Library. Together, these sources help us nuance the image of Argentina as a land of Nazi fugitives and uncover lesser-known histories of native German-Argentinians and Jewish survivors.
Listening to voices from these complementary collections provides a rare glimpse into the personal memories of Nazism and the Holocaust in Latin America, as they testify to the impact of Nazism on German communities outside Europe and enhance our understanding of global histories of survival and refuge. What were the experiences of Jewish refugees in Argentina? And how did German-Argentinians reckon with the legacy of Nazism in their communities?
About the Speakers
Bruno Garbari works at the Holocaust Museum Buenos Aires where he has led all content development for the newly re-opened permanent exhibition as well as the museum’s training programs. He holds degrees in History Education, Public Relations, and Contemporary History, and teaches widely on the Holocaust, including in the Jewish Studies program at Abarbanel University and in the Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity program at the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca and the National University of Tucumán. As well, he is a guide for the March of the Living program.
Zoltán Kékesi is a historian of Central and East Central Europe with a focus on Holocaust research, Jewish history, memory studies, and fascism studies. He works as a research fellow at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at University College London, and is currently working on a book on the oral history collection Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies. His previous books include Agents of Liberation: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film (Central European University Press, 2015) and Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History (Routledge, 2023).
Event venue & nearby stays
The Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom
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