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 Project, 2023-2024 80 years ago, in 1943, five students and a professor stood up to Nazism and paid with their lives. They were members of The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’), a group that wrote and circulated pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. Student members of this year’s White Rose Project will …
“We offer this evening’s performance of art, literature, and music as a way of commemorating this group of courageous individuals – students and their professor – who gave their lives in the pursuit of freedom.” Dr Alexandra Lloyd On Saturday 18 February 2023, around 65 members of the public and students gathered at the Levine …
This year our undergraduate project members again worked on producing creative translations inspired by the White Rose pamphlets and the history of the White Rose. You can see some of their incredible and thought-provoking works below. We’ll be updating this page over the next couple of months as the finishing touches are put to all …
The White Rose Project is delighted to be partnering once again with the Oxford German Network for Round 2 of the Oxford German Olympiad! The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’) was a group of students and a professor in Munich that wrote and distributed leaflets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. 2023 marks the 80th …
2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the trials and executions of the core members of the Weiße Rose resistance circle. The Oxford White Rose Project was launched in 2018 and works to bring the story of the White Rose to English-speaking audiences through research, translation, and public engagement. It currently works closely with the Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V. …
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 …
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 …