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Six-Decades looking for Justice: Nationalised Jewish property in Slovenia
28 October 2020, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
A Southeast European Studies seminar with Dr Hannah Starman
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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SSEES
Location
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Zoom
PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE RESCHEDULED AND WILL NOW BE ON 28 OCTOBER.
In August 1945, the military court of Maribor tried in absentia several Jewish industrialists who had fled the Nazis, found them guilty of war crimes and collaboration with the Nazis, and sentenced them to confiscation of property and loss of civic rights. The fight for justice spread across several decades and continents. In 2013, a landmark ruling of the Supreme Court of Slovenia reversed the 1945 judgment and opened the way for restitution of Jewish industrial property in Slovenia. Dr Starman will talk about the appropriation and (failing) restitution of the Jewish property in Slovenia in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
This event will be held via Zoom, registration is free but essential.
About the Speaker
Hannah Starman
Hannah Starman received her PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth. She is the author of numerous articles on Jewish history, anti-Semitism, and Israel's foreign policy, and frequently called upon to consult government bodies and agencies on these issues. Her research into Jewish textile industrialists in Slovenia, while she was a fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, allowed the legal team to win the landmark case.