Remembering the Hodolein Internment Camp in Olomouc - The Diary of Dr. Erika Frömel. Lecture and Panel Discussion

Remembering the Hodolein Internment Camp in Olomouc - The Diary of Dr. Erika Frömel

Lecture and Panel Discussion

A team of researchers led by Prof. Anabel Buchenau from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte followed the traces of the initially unknown author of a typewritten booklet that was sold at an auction in Detroit. They came across the vita of the head camp doctor of the Czech internment camp for Sudeten Germans in Hodolein, whose report had been quoted anonymously for decades. The story of the infamous camp and the memory of it unfolds. At the same time, it is about the possibilities of finding traces in German and Czech archives over 75 years later.

Programme

Welcome: Dr. Gundula Bavendamm (Director Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation)

Lecture and presentation: Prof. Dr. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, John Sullivan and Jules Geaney-Moore: The diary of Dr. Erika Frömel - a search for traces.

Panel discussion with the speakers

Moderation: Dr. Nils Köhler (Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation)

Free admission

A cooperation event of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the Department of Languages and Culture Studies of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA). The event will be in German.

Livestream of the event via the YouTube channel of the Documentation Centre.