Gaëlle Fisher Lectures on Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust
Dr. Gaëlle Fisher, recipient of the Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin / JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture, which offers an overview of the Holocaust in Romania. In particular, it explores the position of the Jewish leadership in Bucharest in its relationship...
Alina Bothe Lectures on the Polenaktion: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity
Dr. Alina Bothe, recipient of the Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin/ JDC Archives Fellowship, gives her public lecture, which examines the unique mass expulsion of 17,000 Jews of Polish citizenship living in the German Reich to the Polish border in October 1938, the...
Ming Hui Pan Lectures on the Survival of Jews in China during World War II
Ming Hui Pan, recipient of the 2018 Ruth and David Musher/JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture, “The Miracle that Jews Survived in China during World War II,” which examined the role of the Chinese in the history of the survival of that Jewish...
Danielle Willard-Kyle Lectures on Jewish Refugees and Humanitarian Aid in Italian Displaced Persons Camps
Danielle Willard Kyle, recipient of the Ruth and David Musher/ JDC Archives Regional Fellowship, gave her public lecture, which compared and contrasted the cultural life of European and North African Jews of all ages in Italian Displaced Persons (DP) camps after the...