Instituto Franklin-UAH participates in the organization of the workshop "Translating 'The Holocaust by Bullets': Language, Memory and Ethics"
The workshop "Translating the Holocaust by Bullets: Language, Memory, and Ethics" will be held next Wednesday, October 29th, 2025, in Room 3 of the Colegio de San José de Caracciolos at the University of Alcalá, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. This event has been organized by the Universidad de Alcalá, Instituto Franklin-UAH, and the NGO Yahad-In Unum through Universidad de Alcalá professors Luisa Juárez Hervás, research fellow at Instituto Franklin-UAH, Lorena Silos Ribas, and María Jesús Fernández-Gil, both full professors in the Department of Modern Philology at the UAH.
The workshop will feature a presentation entitled "The Role of Language Professionals in Yahad-In Unum's Investigations" by Renata Masna, a researcher at Yahad-In Unum, an NGO that documents sites and testimonies related to the Holocaust by bullets and other mass atrocities. The presentation will address how translators and interpreters contribute to historical documentation, exploring their essential role in Yahad-In Unum's work, and how, from archival research to fieldwork, language professionals are involved in every stage of the organization's methodology. The challenges of translating and interpreting in emotionally charged contexts, where linguistic precision, ethical awareness, and historical responsibility are deeply intertwined, will be analyzed.
Renata Masna works in the Research and Education Department at Yahad–In Unum. She takes part in both research and field investigations across Eastern Europe as a translator, interpreter, interviewer, and team leader. She holds a degree in Linguistics from Université Paris 8 and postgraduate diplomas in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Warsaw and in Polish–Jewish Studies from the Polish Academy of Sciences.
For more information about Yahad-In Unum's work, click on the following link.