New Deputy Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe
Moritz Florin will be taking over as Deputy Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe from April 2025, and as the acting head of the new office in Tbilisi.
Moritz Florin will be taking over as Deputy Director of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe from April 2025, and as the acting head of the new office in Tbilisi.
The central office of the Max Weber Foundation will end its activities on Platform X (formerly Twitter) on 24 January 2025.
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Knowledge Unbound Episode 22 | April 2nd 2025 | Language: german
The Ends of War - Erinnerung an den Holocaust
80 years after the end of the Second World War, we take a look at the memory of the Holocaust. In this episode of our Podcast series ‘The Ends of War’, we talk to Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (GHI Warsaw) about forgotten sites of the Holocaust and Anna-Carolin Augustin (GHI Washington) about the history of Jewish ritual objects that survived as displaced objects. How do we remember these crimes today? And what significance do objects - witnesses to the past - carry?
Knowledge Unbound Episode 24 | April 2nd 2025 | Language: german
The Ends of War - Ostasien und der Nahe Osten
80 years after the end of the Second World War, we take a look at two often overlooked theatres of war: the Pacific War and the African Campaign. In this episode of our Podcast series 'The Ends of War' we talk to Torsten Weber (DIJ Tokyo) about the memory of the Second World War in East Asia and to Thomas Würtz (OI Beirut) about the Battle of El Alamein and its significance in the Middle East. How is the war remembered in these regions? And what new challenges arise for historical memorial sites?