Frankee Lyons Lectures on the JDC in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1957-1960s
Frankee Lyons, the recipient of the 2020-2021 Nathan & Sarah Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, examined JDC operations in Poland from 1957 to the early 1960s. The lecture discussed the role of JDC in Poland in this period, with special emphasis on JDC’s...
Alexandra Kramen Lectures on the Struggle for Holocaust Justice in the Jewish Displaced Persons Community of Föhrenwald, 1945-1957
Alexandra Kramen, the recipient of the 2020-2021 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on how Jewish DPs living just outside of Munich in Föhrenwald, the longest-running Jewish DP camp in postwar Europe, conceived of and acted upon justice for the...
Dóra Pataricza Lectures on the Joint’s Activity in Szeged in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Dr. Dóra Pataricza, the recipient of the 2020 Ruth and David Musher/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on the nature of the requests that survivors returning to Szeged, Hungary, made for assistance, based on archival material of the Szeged Jewish Archives and the JDC...
Sari Siegel Lectures on Jewish Survivor-Physicians in Transition: From DP Camp Doctors to Emigrants, 1945-1950
Sari Siegel, recipient of the 2019 Bernard and Mollie Steuer / JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture, which examines Jewish DP-physicians who provided medical care to fellow survivors in DP camps and DP health facilities in post-World War II Germany. Sari...