A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
Call for Student Writers and Translators 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 distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. To mark the 80th anniversary of the first White Rose pamphlets, and a new publication of the …
We are delighted to share the winning entries for this year’s White Rose Project Prizes as part of the Oxford German Olympiad. 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 …
A colloquium at the University of Oxford 7 May 2021, 9.30am-4pm BST | Free online event on Zoom Organisers: Dr Alex Lloyd and Dr Karolina Wątroba (University of Oxford) **The deadline to register for this event has passed.** 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s birth on 9 May 1921. As part of its commemoration events this year, …
*Please note: this event has been postponed until further notice.* On 18 March we’ll welcome Kip Wilson to Oxford! Kip will read from and discuss her award-winning Young Adult novel-in-verse ‘White Rose’! Here’s an excerpt to give you a flavour: FEBRUARY 18, 1943 Gestapo Headquarters The cars screech to a halt, officers pull us out by …