{"id":410,"date":"2019-11-21T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whiteroseproject.org\/?p=410"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:48:48","slug":"a-week-at-the-weise-rose-stiftung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiteroseproject.seh.ox.ac.uk\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/a-week-at-the-weise-rose-stiftung\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week at the Wei\u00dfe Rose Stiftung"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr Alex Lloyd writes about her visit to the Wei\u00dfe Rose Stiftung in Munich. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year I hold a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities<\/a> (TORCH) to support my work as part of the White Rose Project. Knowledge exchange is defined as \u2018the mutually beneficial sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, and involves collaboration between researchers and external organisations or the public\u2019. My external partner is the Munich-based Wei\u00dfe Rose Stiftung<\/a> (White Rose Foundation), whose mission is to uphold the resistance group\u2019s memory and \u2018to contribute to civic courage and individual responsibility and to promote democratic consciousness\u2019. The purpose of my visit was to get a better sense of the Foundation\u2019s work, its approaches to disseminating the history of the White Rose, and to meet individuals connected with the history and memory of the group, including academics and family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 11 November I set off for Munich. I happened to be in the departures hall at Heathrow as the clock struck 11am, marking the annual commemoration of the Armistice<\/a> with a 2-minute silence. It was moving to hear the usual noise of the airport gradually fall silent as the Last Post was played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the course of the week I met Markus Schmorell (nephew of Alexander Schmorell) and Wolfgang Huber (son of Professor Kurt Huber). I also talked with one of the Foundation\u2019s resident historians, and renewed my acquaintance with Dr Hildegard Kronawitter, the Foundation’s principal chairperson. We discussed the day-to-day work that goes on at the Foundation, including with visitors and schools in their permanent display, the DenkSt\u00e4tte Wei\u00dfe Rose. We also discussed their travelling exhibition and the many exciting possibilities for future projects to be undertaken together. I also sat down with two academics who have worked extensively on the White Rose, particularly fruitful as I plan the next steps of my research.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also able to meet up with one of the student translators from last year\u2019s project and discussed current plans. Since the White Rose Project began in October 2018, I have wanted to have students as its heart: not just as translators, but as partners in the work.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to ask everyone I met what they<\/em> felt would be important about our telling the White Rose’s story in the UK and in English. Different things came up, but it was striking that, most frequently, emphasis was placed on the fact that the group was just that \u2013 a collection of individuals who worked together in different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n