„Wer ist Walter? Resistance against Nazism in Europe“

14. Mai | 19:00

Organised by crossborder factory (Berlin), History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo), Centre international de formation européenne (Nice) and Jasenovac Memorial Site, in cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin), funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)

Contact: info@weristwalter.eu

More information: https://weristwalter.eu/1st-conference-in-berlin/

Inscription for the film projection on 14th May and/or the public discussion on 16th May: https://forms.gle/jpBg99GAkJiXeJFdA

Programm

Program (Version as at 14 April 2023)

Sunday 14th May: Arrival of the participants in Berlin

19:00 Projection of the movie "Valter brani Sarajevo /Walter defends Sarajevo" (OV with English subtitles) with introduction-lecture by Boris Buden (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna / Berlin): “Valter out of memory” Location: Kino Central, Rosenthaler Str. 39, Berlin-Mitte

Monday, 15th May: Conference venue: Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, Berlin Mitte

9:00 - 9:30 Arrival and registration of participants at the conference venue

9:30 - 10:00 Greeting words by Frank Morawietz (crossborder factory), Elma Hašimbegović (History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Jakob Vogel (Centre Marc Bloch)
Presentation of the “Wer ist Walter?”-project and of the conference program

10:00 - 11:00  “Marc Bloch, Germaine Tillion, Vladimir Perić: Three histories of resistance in Europe or one common European history?”
Opening reflections by Nicolas Moll (crossborder factory), followed by discussion
Introduced and moderated by Fabien Théofilakis (Centre Marc Bloch)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Panel 1: “Where to resist? Mountains, cities, villages, camps – different spaces of resistance“, introduced and moderated by Ivo Pejaković (Jasenovac Memorial Site, HR) 

• Resistance and mountain maquis: the Alps, Vercors, Nice - Yvan Gastaut,  University of Côte d’Azur, Nice, F
• Partisan movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War - a comparison of the city and the villages - Dino Dupanović,  Museum of the Una-Sana Canton, Bihać, BiH
• Roma and Sinti Resistance in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II - Justyna Matkowska, University of Albany, USA
• Resistance with words and weapons – Michał Borwicz and the resistance in the Lviv-Janowska camp, Markus Roth, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main, D

13:00 Lunch break

14:45 - 16:00 Panel 2: „A secondary role? The place of women in resistance“, introduced and moderated by Dagmar Lieske (German Resistance Memorial, Berlin, D)

• A Ring of Invisibility - Wives and the Resistance against National Socialism - Juliane Kucharzewski, University of Potsdam, D
• Feminist, anti-fascist, Europeanist and co-founder of the largest French Resistance movement: Berty Albrecht (1893-1943) - Robert Belot, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne, F
• „Responsibility, loyalty and partisanship are at the highest level“: Women of the Unconquered City (Zagreb) - Ana Lovreković, Independent researcher, Zagreb, HR

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Panel 3: „A transnational European space of resistance ? Crossborder trajectories of resistance“, introduced and moderated by Sanja Horvatinčić (Institute of Art History, Zagreb)

• Brigadistas, Maquis, Partisans: Yugoslav veterans of the Spanish Civil War in resistance movements across Europe - Vladan Vukliš, Archives of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, BiH
• Two crossed trajectories: Irène Roman-Giron and Raymond Schmittlein - Corine Defrance, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, F
• Transnational trajectories of civil solidarity, armed resistance, and their post-war legacies between north-west Italy and Yugoslavia - Alfredo Sasso, University of Florence, I
• Youth-Aliyah: Two women, a European network and more than 20.000 children rescued from Nazi-Persecution and the Shoah until 1945 - Susanne Urban, Office on Research and Information on Antisemitism in Hessen (RIAS), Marburg, D
• The Partisan Resistance Goes Global: Yugoslav Veterans and Transnational Frameworks of Memory - Jelena Đureinović, University of Vienna, A 

18:00 - 18:15 Summary of the day

Tuesday, 16th May:

9:00 - 12:00 Visit of the German Resistance Memorial Stauffenbergstraße 13, 10785 Berlin

9:00 - 10:00 Parallel guided visits a) Permanent exhibition "Resistance against National Socialism", with Tim Luch b) Memorial „Silent Heroes“, with Uta Fröhlich

10:00 - 11:00 Time for individual exploration

11:00 - 12:00 Discussion and exchange about the exhibitions /visits

12:30 Return to the Centre Marc Bloch and lunch break

14:15 - 15:45 Panel 4: „The good guys and the bad guys? Grey zones of resistance and collaboration“, introduced and moderated by Robert Parzer (Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe)

• SS-Men against Nazism? The controversial case of the mutiny in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (17 September 1943) - Xavier Bougarel, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies, Paris, F
• Collaboration and Resistance in the Borderlands: The Dalmatian and Montenegrin Chetniks in Comparison - Stevan Bozanich, University of Lethbridge, CA
• The Langres Section of Gendarmerie and Resistance in Haute-Marne (France, 1944): convictions, tensions, and paradoxes - Marius Hutinet, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, F

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 17:30 Presenting and discussing new publications about anti-NS / antifascist resistance in Europe, with Ismee Tames (University of Utrecht, NIOD Institute for War, Amsterdam, NL), Robert Belot (Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne, F) and John Paul Newman (Maynooth University, IRL):

•  "Fighters across frontiers. Transnational resistance in Europe, 1938-1948", ed. by Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames (2020)
•  „Visions of Europe in the Resistance. Figures, Projects, Networks, Ideals“, ed. by Robert Belot and Daniela Prada (2022)
•  „Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1940-1944. Forms and Varieties“, ed. by John Paul Newman, Ljubinka Škodrić, and Rade Ristanović (2023) 

17:30 - 18:00 Feedback about the conference Conclusions and perspectives

19:00 "Who cares about resistance today? Perspectives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France and Germany" – Public discussion, followed by reception. with Elma Hašimbegović (History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, BiH), Hrvoje Klasić (University of Zagreb, HR), Christine Müller-Botsch (German Resistance Memorial, Berlin, D) and Matthias Waechter (Centre International de Formation Europénne Nice, F). Moderation by Nicolas Moll (crossborder factory, Sarajevo/Berlin, BiH/D)

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