Events

Laura Hobson Faure presents Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust

“Are there still Jews in Eastern Europe?” The Rediscovery of Central and Eastern European Jews, 1984-1997

Aleksandra Jakubczak Lectures on Between Entrepreneurship and Reliance on Welfare: Jewish Women Facing the Great War on the Eastern Home Front

JDC Archives Scholars’ Workshop Focuses on Jews in Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean

Elizabeth (Barry) White and Joanna Sliwa present “The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust”

Dalia Wassner Lectures on A Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Memoir and the Creation of Pan-American Jewish Organizations

Anna-Carolin Augustin Lectures on the Joint’s involvement in Jewish cultural reconstruction in the aftermath of the Holocaust

Raúl Peñaranda and Robert Brockmann give a book talk on Escape to the Andes: The Story of Mauricio Hochschild, the “Schindler of Bolivia”

Anna Sommer Schneider Lectures on Yiddishkeit and JDC’s Support for Jewish Education in Communist Poland

Merry Fitzpatrick Lectures on Heroic Medical Research from the Warsaw Ghetto: Preserving a JDC Legacy

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Laura Hobson-Faure’s “A ‘Jewish Marshall Plan’: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France”

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Susan Gilson Miller’s “Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa”

Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein Reflect on their Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa

Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ Lecture on Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995
