Book Talk: The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory

In this book talk, delivered on December 3, 2025, co-editors Daniela Gleizer, Emmanuel Kahan, and Yael Siman present The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory, a volume that highlights Latin America’s often overlooked role in Holocaust history. Approaching the subject through a global lens, the book examines national contexts, immigration policies, and survivor experiences, weaving together themes of migration, resettlement, and memory.

This talk is cosponsored by the JDC Archives and the Brandeis University Initiative on the Jews of the Americas (JOTA).

Daniela Gleizer is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan is a researcher at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Research and a professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, also at the National University of La Plata.

Yael Siman is currently a Research Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.