The White Rose Project will again follow the events as they happened in real time through posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first White Rose trials and executions. It is an important moment to remember this resistance group and reflect on their legacy. You can find the posts under the hashtag #whiteroserealtime. We will …
Print Workshop at the Bodleian
On Friday 3 February 2023, student and academic members of the White Rose Project joined Dr Alexandra Franklin at the Bodleian Library’s Bibliographical Press. The students selected phrases from the White Rose leaflets – in German and English – and experimented with printing them using some of the historical hand-presses. Slogans included: ‘Ein Verbrechen kann …
Oxford German Olympiad 2023
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 …
National History Day 2023
The White Rose Project has received lots of emails about National History Day again this year! While we’re sadly not able to reply to everyone individually, we asked Dr Alexandra Lloyd (Director of the Project and author of Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022)) to comment on the White Rose. If …
International Translation Day
On International Translation Day 2022, we’re celebrating the work of all the White Rose Project student translators who’ve worked so hard to bring the White Rose history to audiences beyond German-speakers! Translation work with undergraduate students is at the heart of the White Rose Project. This includes translation between German and English, and ‘creative translation’, …
Creative Translations – ‘Wortwahl’ by Anna Cooper
This year, 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 courage and conviction of students who, eighty …
Call for Graduate Committee Members
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. …
Call for Student Translators!
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 …
Creative Translations – ‘Lichthof’ by Lydia Ludlow
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 …
Returning to Munich
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 …