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Judith Vocker

History, University of Leicester

Thesis title:

Crime and Criminal Prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghetto during World War II

Research Area

  • History

Publications

with Dr Clara Frysztacka:The ambivalences in Europe, the Balkan in the history of the Europeanisation, in: Südosteuropa Mitteilungen [Notes on Southeast Europe], Vol. 1, 2018: pp. 200-215.

Book Review: Enstad, Johannes Due:  Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation. Fragile Loyalties in World War II. Cambridge  2018 , in: H-Soz-Kult, 19.03.2019: www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29973.

Conferences

10/2018 – Potsdam School of Jewish Theology and Jagiellonian University Cracow: 3rd Polish-German Workshop: 'Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology', October 24.-28th2018, Potsdam (Germany). Conference paper: Crime and criminal prosecution in the Warsaw Ghetto.

11/2018 – Midlands3Cities and WRoCAH: New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network, November 21st 2018, Leicester (UK), Talk: Criminal prosecution through German juridical entities in the ghettos and districts of Warsaw, Cracow and Riga during WW II.

12/2018 – Jewish Historical Institute and EHRI: Research and Preservation of the Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, December 6th 2018 Warsaw (Poland). Conference paper: Crime and criminality as a part of everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

01/2019 – German Historical Institute London: 23rd Postgraduate Students Conference, January 10-11th 2019, London (UK). Conference paper: Criminal prosecution in the Warsaw, Cracow and Riga Ghettos through German juridical entities during World War II.

01/2019 – Wiener Holocaust Library, January 22nd 2019, London (UK). Talk: Criminal prosecution through German juridical entities in the cities of Warsaw, Cracow and Riga.

03/2019– The Ackerman Centre for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas: 4th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, March 2-4th 2019, Dallas (USA). Paper: Criminal prosecution through German juridical entities in the cities and ghettos of Warsaw, Cracow and Riga.

03/2019 – Brigham Young University, March 12th2019, Provo (USA): Research Seminar:  The Generalgouvernement under foreign law: Criminal prosecution through the German jurisdiction during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and Cracow.

04/2019 – British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies: BASEES Annual Conference, April 12-14th 2019, Cambridge (UK). Conference paper: Crime and criminal prosecution in the Warsaw Ghetto.

05/2019 – The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum: 6th International Conference of the Riga Forum, Riga (Latvia), May 20-22nd2019. Paper: The Muranów district as a memorial of the former Warsaw Ghetto.

06/2019 – European-University Viadrina: Eastern European Studies Colloquium. Frankfurt Oder (Germany), June 3rd 2019. Talk:The 'Generalgouvernement' under foreign law: Criminal prosecution through the German jurisdiction during Nazi occupation of Warsaw and Cracow.

06/2019 – University of Leeds: New Voices in Post-Colonial Studies Symposium, Leeds (UK), June 13th 2019. Paper: Giorgio Agamben's theory of the 'State of exception' and the Holocaust'.

06/2019 – The National September 11 Memorial and Museum: Andrew W. Mellon Conference: Traversing the Gap: Relevance as a Transformative Force at Sites of Public Memory, New York City (USA), June 19-21st 2019. Conference Paper: The Muranów district as a memorial of the former Warsaw Ghetto. 

07/2019 – German Society for Eastern European Studies: 27th Conference of Junior Scholars in the field of Eastern European Studies, Bochum (Germany), July 12-14th 2019. Paper: The criminal prosecution of Jews through the German jurisdiction in the Warsaw Ghetto.

07/2019 – Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization SEFER: 26th Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow (Russian Federation), July 14-16th 2019. Paper: The Generalgouvernement under Nazi law: The prosecution of 'Crimes' in the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi occupation.

07/2019 – British Association for Holocaust Studies: 6th Annual Conference: Narratives of the Holocaust, University of Roehampton (London, UK), July 17-19th 2019. Paper: Testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto.

09/2019 – German History Society Annual Conference, King's College London (UK), September 3-5th 2019. Paper: The Generalgouvernement under foreign law: the German jurisdiction in Jewish Ghettos.

09/2019 - German Historical Institute Warsaw, Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe and the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Centrum: New Approaches to Research on Everyday Life during WWII, Berlin (Germany), September 27-28th 2019. Paper: Crime and criminal prosecution as a part of everyday life in ‘Jewish ghettos’.

10/2019 - University of Exeter: ExHistoria Symposium, October 17th 2019. Talk: The Generalgouvernement under foreign law: The Nazi jurisdiction in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945.

11/2019 - Holocaust Educational Foundation, Centre for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich: Special Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust, November 4-7th 2019. Paper: Criminal prosecution of Jews in ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

11/2019 - German Historical Institute London and the Institute of Historical Research: German History Seminar at UCL, November 13th 2019. Talk: The Generalgouvernement under foreign law: The criminal prosecution of ‘crimes’ in Warsaw and Cracow during Nazi occupation.

11/2019 - American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies: 51th Annual ASEEES Convention, San Francisco (USA), November 23-26th 2019. Paper: Warsaw's Jewry under foreign law during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

12/2019 - Association for Jewish Studies: 51st Annual Conference, San Diego (USA), December 15-17th 2019. Paper: The Generalgouvernment under foreign law: The criminal prosecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

12/2019 - Technical University Dresden: Forschungs- und Examenskolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, December 16th 2019. Talk: Im Namen des Deutschen Volkes: Die Deutsche Gerichtsbarkeit in Warschau und Krakau während der NS-Besatzung des Generalgouvernements.

01/2019 – German Historical Institute London: 24th Postgraduate Students Conference, January 10-11th 2020, London (UK). Paper: 'In the name of the German nation' - The German jurisdiction in Warsaw and Cracow during the Nazi occupation of the Generalgouvernement (1939-1945)

01/2020 – Hebrew University Jerusalem, Warsaw Ghetto seminar of Prof. Amos Goldberg, January 27th 2020, Seminar topic: The Judiciary system in Warsaw (including the ghetto) during WWII.

02/2020 - Yad Vashem, German Israeli Archival Colloquium, February 4th 2020, Paper: 'In the name of the German nation' - The German jurisdiction in Warsaw and Cracow during the Nazi occupation of the Generalgouvernement (1939-1945)


Public Engagement & Impact

since September 2019 - Co-director of the New Voices for Postcolonial Studies Research Network

since March 2019 - Participant in the Journey2Justice group in Leicester

since November 2018 - Volunteer for the OneRoof Night Shelter in Leicester 

since December 2018 - Volunteer at the Neve Shalom Synagogue in Leicester

since November 2018 - Student representative on the Postgraduate Student Staff Committee of the University of Leicester

since October 2018 - Reviewer for Humanities-Social- and Cultural History (H-Soz-Kult)

September 2018 - Volunteer at the Annual German History Society Conference in Leicester

February-May 2019 - Co-organiser of the Postgraduate Conference at the University of Leicester 

February-May 2019 - Co-organiser of the Midlands4Cities Research Festival in Birmingham 

Other Research Interests

The Holocaust in Poland, Ideologies of the Third Reich, Stalinism and Soviet Russia, Imperial Russia

Memberships

American Association for Slavonic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

British Association for Holocaust Studies (BAHS)

German Society for Studies of Eastern Europe (DGO)

German History Society (GHS)