Conference Report now published

In May 2023,  a three day conference on the topic of “Jewish Country Houses and the Holocaust in History and Memory” was convened in Brno, Czech Republic. 51 delegates had the opportunity to gather at the Methodological Center of Modern Architecture (MCMA), meeting with colleagues across academic, heritage and arts sectors and from Europe, America, and Israel, to engage with research and work that touched upon various aspects of the conference topic – such as the history of specific properties/country houses, memory and agency, representation and remembrance, and how to build bridges between the past and the present.

The conference was convened by Jaclyn Granick (Cardiff University, Wales), Cyril Grange (CNRS, France), Abigail Green (Oxford, United Kingdom) and Petr Svoboda (National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic), with support from Pavlína Petrová (Národní památkový ústav) and Briony Truscott (University of Oxford), in partnership with the National Heritage Institute NPÚ Czech Republic. The event ran as part of the “Politics and Philanthropy” strand of the Jewish Country Houses research project, which is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and received assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, support from the German Federal Ministry of Finance, and was sponsored by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.”

The full conference report by Charlotte Canizo and Matilda Eriksson can be read here.