Conference organized in partnership with the l’United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, Ghetto Fighters’House, Mémorial de la Shoah, IfZ de Munich, Yahad – In Unum, HisTeMé, ERLIS.

The two-day event will be structured into four half-day sessions, each dedicated to a theme linked by the common thread of space and spatiality. The first focus will be on the place of ghettos within the geography of the Shoah. We will examine the functionality of the ghettos in relation to the other methods used to enslave and exterminate populations, as well as the characteristics of the spaces in which the ghettos were established. The second focus will explore how the ghettos were integrated into the physical geography of the city or, more broadly, the region (use of existing structures, repurposing of spaces, and natural boundaries such as rivers, lakes, etc.). While the first two sections will examine the ghettos’ relationship with the outside world, the next two will focus on their internal spatiality and social structure. The third will explore the creation or re-creation of sociable spaces based on age, gender, political affiliation, economic status, or other criteria. The fourth will examine the relationship between intimate space (the body) and the space of the ghetto.