Learning about the Shoah Through Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling

Contact/registration:

Dr. Jana Mikota
mikota@germanistik.uni-siegen.de

Program

November 13, 2025

• 4 - 6 p.m.
  Creative Workshop with Inbal Leitner (Cambridge)
  (Active Museum South Westphalia)

• 6 pm
  Reading: Stephanie Lunkewitz (Active Museum South Westphalia)

  Dinner together

November 14, 2025

• 9:00 a.m.
  Welcome
• 9:15 a.m.
  Jens Aspelmeier, Daniel Stein, Jana Mikota: Introduction
• 9:30-10:30
  Thilo Weiland (Düsseldorf): Recognizing anti-Semitic stereotypes, their historical continuities and ideological adaptability

Block I: Literary Studies

• 10:30-11:15
  Jana Mikota (Siegen): Developments in Shoah literature for children and young people
• 11:15-12:00
  Daniel Stein (Siegen): "Never again!... and again...and again": Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco and the Search for a Comics Ethics
• 12:00-12:45
  Charlotte Schallié (Victoria, BC): Beyond Trauma: Reframing Embodied and Silent Memories in Barbara Yelin's The Color of Memory.
• 12:45-13:30
  Hadassah Stichnothe (Berlin): Collage and Assemblage in Graphic Storytelling about the Shoah
• 13-30-15:00
  Lunch break

Block II: Literary Studies

• 15:00-15:45
  Myriam Halberstam (Berlin): Insights into the world of publishing
• 15:45-16:30
  Inbal Leitner (Cambridge): Insights into her workshop
• 16:30-17:15
  Daniel Feldman (Ramat-Gan): Multiplicities of Holocaust Graphic Literature: Counterpointing, Context, and Contradictory Narratives
• 17:15-18:00
  Jessica Langenstein (Karlsruhe): Narrated Self-Localizations and Topographies of Memory in Bianca Schaalburg's The Scent of Pines
• 18:00-18:45
  Gabriele von Glasenapp (Cologne/Frankfurt a. M.): Antimimetic storytelling about the Shoah in picture books using the example of Rosa Weiss
• 19:00
  Dinner

November 15

Block III: History

• 9:00-9:45
  Monika Rox-Helmer (Gießen): "Vorbei ist eben nicht vorbei": Historical learning through literary reading of youth novels on the post-history of National Socialism and the Holocaust
• 9:45-10:30
  Jens Aspelmeier (Siegen): Remembrance and the Holocaust as intergenerational dialog in school and extracurricular experiential spaces.

Block IV: Didactics

• 10:30-11:15
  Annette Kliewer (Wisenbourg): Comics on the Holocaust in the classroom
• 11:15-12:00
  Sophie Schmidt (Frankfurt a. M.): Unsettling Places - A further education offer to reflect on one's own pedagogical practice on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust
• 12:00-12:15
  Coffee break
• 12:15-13:00
  Britta Hönes (Siegen): Graphic novels in the classroom: experiences withBut I live in classroom practice
• 13:00-14:00
  Conclusion
• Followed by a visit to the special exhibition "Telling the Holocaust in pictures"
  (Active Museum South Westphalia)