Johannes Glack Lectures on Global Perspectives on JDC’s Assistance to Jewish DPs with Health-Related Challenges, 1945-1963

In his April 28, 2025, lecture, Johannes Glack draws on case studies from Austria, Israel, and Shanghai to examine the challenges Holocaust survivors with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and handicaps encountered in Europe and Asia after 1945 and how the JDC provided assistance along their migration routes.

This lecture is made possible thanks to the Miriam “Mimi” Pasternak Toubin (z”l) Public Educational Programming from the JDC Archives.

Johannes Glack is a contemporary historian and doctoral researcher at the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, where he is engaged in the ERC project “GLORE%mdash;Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons Learned from the Postwar (1945-1951).” His research focuses on the migration processes of Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) with health-related challenges from 1945 to 1963. He is the recipient of the Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship for 2024.