We are delighted to invite you to a private, curator-led tour by Dr. Rebecca Jinks of the Wiener Holocaust Library’s latest exhibition, Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women. This exhibition explores stories of Armenian and Yezidi women held in genocidal captivity, using humanitarian records of Armenian survivors from the 1920s and recent interviews with and compelling portraits of Yezidi survivors in Iraq. The exhibition, co-curated by Dr. Rebecca Jinks and Dr. Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library), is hosted jointly through the Holocaust and Genocide Research Partnership with Free Yezidi Foundation and is part of an AHRC-funded research project led by Dr. Rebecca Jinks. It is also generously supported by the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. The exhibition runs from 21 Feb - 31 May 2024.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

About Dr. Rebecca Jinks

Dr. Becky Jinks is a historian of comparative genocide and humanitarianism at Royal Holloway, University of London. This exhibition, which she has co-curated with Dr. Christine Schmidt (Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Wiener Holocaust Library), forms part of her AHRC-funded research project Genocidal captivity: (Re)telling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women survivors, 1915 and 2014. The project builds on her earlier work on international humanitarian organisations’ treatment of ‘absorbed’ Armenian women in the aftermath of the genocide.