Ida Richter (Berlin)
Intersections of Human Rights Discourse and Holocaust Memory in the 1970s and 1980s: The Case of the British ‘Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry’
22.05.2024
Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium "Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism"
The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 22nd, with a lecture by Junior Fellow Ida Richter on 'Intersections of Human Rights Discourse and Holocaust Memory in the 1970s and 1980s: The Case of the British ‘Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry’.
Ida Richter’s research focuses on the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration as well as the history of human rights and international criminal law. She studied political science and human rights at Sciences Po Paris and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. An article resulting from her master’s thesis has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice in 2020. Ida Richter’s PhD dissertation, written in the framework of a research group on Yad Vashem’s Righteous among the Nations at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin, inquired into universalistic rhetoric in the commemoration of rescue during the Holocaust, taking the example of Raoul Wallenberg’s reception history from 1945 to the 1990s. In Munich, she will work on a central aspect of a new research project on Western activism on behalf of Soviet Jews in the 1970s and 1980s.
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