Most Jews in Eastern and Central Europe were annihilated during the Holocaust, and those who survived and remained in the Eastern bloc, were often repressed by the succeeding Communist regimes. The Jewish community in postwar Poland experienced several intense periods...
The problem of Jewish immigration in Latin America did not end with the defeat of Nazism nor with the dramatic revelation of the crimes committed by the Nazi regime. Some recent research has explored the continuity of discriminatory policies after the war and the...
Sandra Gruner-Domić, recipient of the 2021 Bernard and Mollie Steuer / JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture, which examines the immigration of Jewish refugees in Bolivia during the Holocaust, with a special emphasis on the involvement of a Jewish...
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, 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, 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...