80 Years Later: Remembering the wartime past in the 21st century
2025 is a year of anniversaries: Europe will be celebrating 80 years since the end of the war, 80 years since liberation from Nazi rule, and 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and many other places of Nazi incarceration.
But what survives of these sites of incarceration today, and what are the risks and challenges of the 21st century that threaten them? What can we do about it? This talk discusses the work of archaeologists, heritage practitioners and Holocaust remembrance organisations.
This interview will take place on Tuesday 20 May at 6pm on Zoom.
Professor Gilly Carr OBE (1994), is Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Carr, who is a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, first came to St John’s in 1994 to do an MPhil in World Archaeology followed by a PhD, graduating from each in 1995 and then 2000.
She is a member of both the UK delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the academic advisory board for the UK Holocaust Memorial Centre. Professor Carr, who won the European Heritage Prize in 2020, has a particular research interest in wartime incarceration, internment and imprisonment and 2024 saw the publication of her latest book, A Materiality of Internment, which involved interviews with more than 65 former internees.
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