A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
White Rose Translation Project, 2022-2023 In 1943 five students and a professor at Munich University were executed. They were members of The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’), a group that wrote and circulated pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. To mark the 80th anniversary of the final pamphlets, and the trials and executions of the …
This year, instead of translating between German and English, the White Rose Translation Project explored ‘creative translation’, adapting the White Rose resistance pamphlets into new works, including poetry, prose, drama, and artwork. The Oxford students’ translations are imaginative responses to, and interpretations of, real events and people as encountered in interviews and primary sources. They explore the …
Dr Alex Lloyd writes about her recent visit to the Weiße Rose Stiftung (White Rose Foundation) in Munich. From 2019-2021 I held a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and worked in partnership with the Weiße Rose Stiftung (White Rose Foundation) in Munich. The Foundation’s mission is to uphold the resistance …
The fourth year of the White Rose Project began in October 2021 with the launch of our new Graduate Committee. The student members of the committee – Shivani Chauhan, Ro Crawford, Ombline Damy, Cailee Davis, Stephanie Franklin, and Hannah Scheithauer – co-organised and supported the year’s events. This included helping to supervise undergraduates’ work on the …
On Wednesday 22 June 2022, members of the White Rose Project were invited to speak at the Chalke Valley History Festival – the UK’s biggest festival devoted to history! Dr Alex Lloyd chose to begin the story not in Munich, but in nearby Salisbury where her grandmother – born in the same year as White …
We are delighted to be able to feature the work of this year’s White Rose Project student translators in a display on the High Street in Oxford. In the first three years of the Project, students worked on translations of resistance writings by the White Rose, including their resistance pamphlets, and excerpts from their private …
We are delighted to announce the programme for our upcoming conference, ‘Rethinking Resistance’, organised in partnership with our 2021-2022 Graduate Conference Committee. The programme, as well as details of how to sign up to some of the events, is available to view here: http://whiteroseproject.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php/rethinking-resistance-conference/.
We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Oxford German Olympiad White Rose Project Prize! The Olympiad is an annual nationwide competition run by the Oxford German Network, an initiative by the German department of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, dedicated to productive cross-cultural cooperation involving schools, cultural organisations, …
We are delighted to announce that members of the White Rose Project will be speaking at the 2022 Chalke Valley History Festival. More information is available on the Festival’s website: https://cvhf.org.uk/programme-details/talks-programme/ Dr Alex Lloyd will speak about her new book Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets alongside two student members of the project, Amy …
On Tuesday 15 March 2022, Alex Lloyd’s new book Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022) was launched at an event in St Edmund Hall’s Old Dining Hall. The White Rose resistance pamphlets are included in full in the book, translated by students at the University of Oxford. These translations were …