Melissa Klapper Lectures on American Jewish Women Serving the JDC Abroad During the Interwar Years
While the “JDC man” became a well-known figure in the international Jewish communal world following World War I, it was not only men who served as JDC administrators, investigators, social workers, and other professionals. A cadre of American Jewish women...
Sylvia Hershcovitz Lectures on Mela Iancu: A Holocaust Heroine in Romania
Sylvia Hershcovitz, the recipient of the 2020 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on Mela Iancu, a Romanian Jewish leader, who established the Jewish Center for the Protection of Mothers and Children in 1939. With branches throughout Romania, the...
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...