Selected Talks, TV and Podcasts

A House through Time: Two Cities at War

For the BBC, David Olusoga traces the lives of residents of two apartment blocks - Montagu Mansions in Marylebone, London, and 72 Pfalzburger Strasse in Wilmersdorf, Berlin - to tell the story of the world’s deadliest conflict, the Second World War. I was honoured to contribute to Episodes 3 and 4 and to speak with David about the tragic story of the Sallisohn family.
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"Head of an Old Woman”: Nelly Wolffheim and the Voices of the Aged" at the Older Jews and the Holocaust Symposium, September 2024. The Symposium in Washington DC gathered contributors to the forthcoming volume, Older Jews and the Holocaust, published by Wayne State University Press in 2026. Co-edited with Dr Joanna Sliwa (Claims Conference) and Dr Elizabeth Anthony (US Holocaust Memorial Museum), this volume focuses on the experiences of older Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Join Sandra Lipner (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Dr Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library) as they discuss their curation of Holocaust Letters, an exhibition held at The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2023.
Join Dr Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library) and Professor Dan Stone (Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London) as they walk through the Wiener Holocaust Library's exhibition 'Death Marches: Evidence and Memory'. 'Death Marches: Evidence and Memory' was the inaugural exhibition of the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership.

A Wee Bit of War 

Kindertransport and kindness in Ulster

By now, more people in Northern Ireland are aware of the Kindertransport and the resettlement farm at Millisle, Co. Down, and the vital role it played before, during, and after the Second World War. In the lead-up to Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, Scott Edgar talked to Dr. Christine Schmidt of the Wiener Holocaust Library about the role played by Northern Ireland at this time, the wealth of material in the Arolsen Archives, and the vital ongoing work of the library in the 21st century.

History Hit: Warfare

Death Marches: Evidence and Memory

As the Allies advanced through Europe in early 1945, the Nazis embarked on one final escalation of the Holocaust. Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, already weak and starving from their treatment in the camp system, were forcibly marched away from the possibility of liberation. For this episode, James welcomes the curators of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s new exhibition, ‘Death Marches: Evidence and Memory’.
Dr Christine Schmidt and Professor Dan Stone talk us through why the Death Marches happened, what the experience would have been like and how we know anything about them. Christine and Dan draw upon the evidence which they have collected for the exhibition to share some of the personal stories of these last weeks of the Holocaust.  Listen here.

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Concentration Camps, Internment & Should We Be Worried? 

Dan Snow talks to Dr Christine Schmidt, a curator of the Wiener Library about the historical parallels for internment, and whether the situation we are in today is comparable. For more exclusive history interviews and documentaries, subscribe to HistoryHit.TV. Listen here.