{"id":85757,"date":"2026-06-09T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=85757"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:51:54","slug":"conference-mixed-couples-in-europe-under-axis-rule-17-19-06-2026-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=85757","title":{"rendered":"Conference: \u201cMixed\u201d Couples in Europe under Axis Rule, 17.-19.06.2026, Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (Munich) and NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam); Michaela Raggam-Blesch and Laurien Vastenhout<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/zentrum-fuer-holocaust-studien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Web)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time: 17.-19.06.2026<br \/>\nVenue: IfZ &#8211; Institute for Contemporary History, Munich<\/p>\n<p>The conference will explore the experiences, agency, and survival strategies of intermarried families under National Socialist rule and will examine their significance for an integrated history of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><b>Programme<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-162818?utm_source=hsozkult&amp;utm_medium=htmlnl&amp;utm_campaign=mailings-2026-6&amp;utm_content=readon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Web)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>17.06.2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>13:30 Welcome and introduction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>14:00 <strong>Panel 1: Perpetrators and Perpetration<\/strong> | Chair: Benjamin Frommer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lovro Kralj (EHRI Central Hub, Amsterdam): Intermarriage and the Entangled Dynamics of Perpetration and Victimhood in the Independent State of Croatia<\/li>\n<li>Ingo Loose (Institute for Contemporary History, Berlin): \u201dMixed marriages\u201d in the context of National Socialist Germanization plans in the annexed Polish territories. Between racial-legal foundations and social practice<\/li>\n<li>Ferenc Lacz\u00f3 and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Cs\u0151sz (Maastricht University \/ Budapest): Intermarried Families in Hungary during the Last Phase of the Holocaust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>15:45 <strong>Panel 2: Bureaucracy and the Legal Frameworks of Categorisation<\/strong> | Chair: Tatjana Lichtenstein<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c9milie Duranceau-Lapointe (Zentrum f\u00fcr Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin): Prima Facie \u201cJewishness\u201d \u2013 Civil Registrars and \u201cMixed\u201d Bureaucratic and Legal Practices of Race in Nazi Berlin<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Linda Graul (University of Luxembourg): Between Protection and Precarity: Intermarriage and Jewish Dispossession in Luxembourg<\/li>\n<li>Niels Pohl-Schneeberger (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich): \u201dMixed\u201d Couples and Citizenship in the Holocaust. Transnational Dimension of A National Socialist \u201cProblem Management\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>17:30 <strong>Panel 3: Governing Race and \u201cMixed\u201d Intimacy<\/strong> | Chair: Lovro Kralj<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petre Matei (Elie Wiesel National Institute, Bucharest): Peripheral but Not Exempt from Persecution: Roma-Romanian \u201cMixed\u201d Couples and Deportations to Transnistria<\/li>\n<li>Verena Meier (Forschungsstelle Antiziganismus, Heidelberg): Transnational Networks and Practices of Exclusion: Racial-Biological Assessments and \u201cMixed\u201d Jewish and Romani Families in the Reich and Annexed Territories<\/li>\n<li>Soumyaditha Saha (University of Toronto): Race, Gender, and Law: Regulating South-Asian\/German Intimacies across Empires<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>18.06.2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>09:30 <strong>Panel 4: \u201cMixed\u201d Households, and Everyday Life<\/strong> | Chair: Natalia Aleksiun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susanne Korbel (Center for Jewish Studies, Graz): Intermarriage and Everyday Conviviality: Jewish\/non-Jewish Households in Interwar and Wartime Budapest<\/li>\n<li>Maria von der Heydt (Berlin): Housing, Eating, Working, and Surviving. \u201cMixed Families\u201d in Germany, 1938-1945<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10:45 <strong>Panel 5: Family Dependency and Survival<\/strong> | Chair: Nina Valbousquet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maximilian Strnad (Kulturreferat, City of Munich): Anchored Against the Current: Transformations of Action Spaces within \u201cMixed Families\u201d in Nazi Germany<\/li>\n<li>Michaela Raggam-Blesch (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich): A Shield Rescindable as a Feather \u2013 Mutual Dependencies within \u201cMixed Families\u201d in Vienna<\/li>\n<li>Susanna Schrafstetter (University of Vermont): A Place More Dangerous than Nazi Germany? German \u201cMixed-Marriage\u201d Families in Fascist Italy, 1938-1945<\/li>\n<li>Mirjam Neuhoff (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich): \u201dMixed Families\u201d in German Occupied Italy 1943-1945<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>13:45 <strong>Panel 6. Family Relations, Intimacy, and Emotions<\/strong> | Chair: Andrea L\u00f6w<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joanna Bak\u00f3n (University of Warsaw): Intimacy without Protection: \u201cMixed Families\u201d in Occupied Poland and the Limits of Nazi Racial Categorization<\/li>\n<li>Laurien Vastenhout (NIOD, Amsterdam): \u201cMixed Families\u201d and the Reconfiguration of Kinship in the Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Tatjana Lichtenstein (University of Texas, Austin): Our entire Jewish family was exterminated: Intermarried Families, Victimhood, and Suffering in the Holocaust<\/li>\n<li>Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida): We lived well together. Polish Jewish survivors and their rescuers in the aftermath of the Holocaust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>16:15 <strong>Panel 7: Children and Elderly<\/strong> | Chair: Maximilian Strnad<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joanna B. Michlic (University College London): Carrying the Dark and Painful Secrets: Wartime Childhood, Fragile Survival, Stigma, and Memory in Polish-Jewish \u201cMixed Families\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Radana Rutov\u00e1 (Terez\u00edn Memorial): Experiencing Belonging and Difference: Children from \u201cMixed Marriages\u201d in the Terezin Ghetto<\/li>\n<li>Elisabeth Antony (USHMM, Washington): The Postwar Experience of Elderly Intermarried Viennese Jews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>19:30 <strong>Keynote<\/strong> by Doris Bergen (University of Toronto): In and Out of View: Locating Mixed Couples in Histories of War and Genocide (NS-Doku, Munich)<\/p>\n<p><b>19.06.2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>09:30 <strong>Panel 8: Agency, Resistance, and Survival<\/strong> | Chair: Stefan Ionescu<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Galyna Kutsovska (Uppsala University, Sweden): Negotiating Vulnerability and Agency: Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families During the Holocaust in Kharkiv<\/li>\n<li>Laura Hobson Faure (Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne University, Paris): Ren\u00e9e de Monbrison (n\u00e9e Cahen d\u2019Anvers) and Hubert Conqu\u00e9r\u00e9 de Monbrison during the Holocaust in France: Saving the Rescuers?<\/li>\n<li>Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini (Danish National Archives, Copenhagen): To stay or to go\u2026 The experience of \u201cmixed couples\u201d and their children in relation to the \u201cJudenaktion\u201d in Denmark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>11:15 <strong>Panel 9: Religious Institutions and Dynamics of Agency and Belonging<\/strong> | Chair: Ferenc Lacz\u00f3<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benjamin Frommer (Northwestern University, Chicago): Permission to Wed: Intermarriage with Jews in the Slovak State<\/li>\n<li>Nina Valbousquet (CNRS, Paris): Jewish-Catholic Couples in Italy Between Fascist Persecution and Vatican Intermediation (1938-1945)<\/li>\n<li>Stefan Ionescu (Chapman University, California): Claiming \u201cDeserving\u201d Status as Resistance to the Holocaust: \u201cMixed Families,\u201d Converted Jews and Their Offsprings during the Aryanization of Jewish Property in World War II Romania<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>14:00-15:30 <strong>Concluding panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elisabeth Anthony (USHMM, Washington)<\/li>\n<li>Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Brenner (American University, Washington \/ LMU Munich)<\/li>\n<li>Andrea L\u00f6w (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kontakt: kezeric@ifz-muenchen.de<\/p>\n<p>Source: HSozKult <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-162818?utm_source=hsozkult&amp;utm_medium=htmlnl&amp;utm_campaign=mailings-2026-6&amp;utm_content=readon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Web)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (Munich) and NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam); Michaela Raggam-Blesch and Laurien Vastenhout (Web) Time: 17.-19.06.2026 Venue: IfZ &#8211; Institute for Contemporary History, Munich The conference will explore the experiences, agency, and survival strategies of intermarried families under National Socialist rule and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-migration-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85757"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85881,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85757\/revisions\/85881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}