Public Program Recordings
This list, organized by region, presents all JDC Archives public programs for which a recording is available. Within each regional section, the most recent program is listed first, as indicated by the parenthetical date following the program titles. Each title is a link to a blog post that provides more detailed description and the video recording of that program. You may also wish to visit the JDC Archives Youtube Channel.
Africa and Asia

Building Memory: Jewish Communal Reconstruction in Postwar Tunisia, 1945-1967 (2022)
Walter Francis

Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa (2021)
Susan Gilson Miller

Reflections and Perceptions on Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa (2021)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein

JDC and European Refugees in Postwar Shanghai (2021)
Fred Lazin

Images of Moroccan Jews and Perceptions of American Jews, 1942-1954 (2020)
Michal Ben-Ya’akov

Studying the Middle East through the Prism of the Jewish Communities (2020)
Lior Sternfeld

The Miracle that Jews Survived in China during World War II (2019)
Ming Hui Pan

The Jewish Community in Iran from 1941 until the Revolution (2013)
Lior Sternfeld
Central and Eastern Europe

Yiddishkeit and JDC’s Support for Jewish Education in Communist Poland (2023)
Anna Sommer Schneider

Heroic Medical Research from the Warsaw Ghetto: Preserving a JDC Legacy (2023)
Merry Fitzpatrick, with Irwin Rosenberg


Reviving Jewish Culture at Szarvas Camp: Now and Then (2022)
Zsuzsa Fritz and Sasha Friedman

“Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968 (2022)
Jonathan Zisook


Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses D. Rosen’s Leadership in Romania under Communism and Afterwards (2021)
Zvi Feine and Sandra Segal

Mela Iancu: A Leader, A Rescuer, A Holocaust Heroine in Romania (2021)
Sylvia Hershcovitz

The JDC in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1957-1960s (2021)
Frankee Lyons


The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021)
Avinoam Patt

Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 (2020)
Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ


Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust (2019)
Gaëlle Fisher

October 28th, 1938: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity (2019)
Alina Bothe

The Fate of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust (2018)
Joseph Benatov

Jewish Life in Croatia 1945-1952 (2017)
Naida Michal Brandl


No Man’s Land: Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe in 1938 (2017)
Michal Frankl


Matzo Wars: Jews, Communism, and Ethnicity in 1946 Hungary (2015)
Anna Manchin

The Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust (2014)
Gerald Steinacher
Latin America

From the Nile to the Tietê: Egyptian Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1956-61 (2023)
Michael Rom

Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950 (2022)
Lorena Cardona González

Bolivia, A Forgotten Refuge during the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941 (2022)
Sandra Gruner-Domić
Russia and the Former Soviet Union

“Who Should the Players Be?”: The JDC in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991 (2022)
Joshua Tapper

Treading Lightly Back into the USSR: The ‘Joint’ Returns after Half a Century (2021)
Zvi Gitelman

A Jewish Aid Worker in the Killing Fields of Ukraine, 1918-1920: Eli Gumener’s Memoirs (2019)
Michael Nutkiewicz
Western Europe


“A Children’s Paradise?”: The JDC and Selvino, Italy, 1945-48 (2022)
Danielle Willard-Kyle

Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France” (2022)
Laura Hobson-Faure

Holocaust Survivors in Exile in Germany after World War II (2021)
David Nasaw



Interagency Efforts for Child Rescue and Immigration to the US: 1939-1942 (2020)
Emily Bengels

JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Lisbon: Harbor of Hope for Jewish Refugees (2019)
Marion Kaplan

The JDC and the Jews of Alsace and Algeria, 1940-1963 (2019)
Lauren Henry


Starting Over Again: Survivors, Locals, and Welfare Agencies in the Austrian Alps (2019)
Rachel Blumenthal


Histories on the Fringe: Jewish DPs in Austria and Koppel S. Pinson (2018)
Laura Almagor



Feeding Hungry Children After World War I (2016)
Mary Cox
The Yishuv/Israel


The Role of JDC in the Rehabilitation of Cyprus Detainees 1946-1949 (2021)
Anat Kutner and Sigal Harari Zonder
[This recording has been placed in the listings for The Yishuv/Israel because of the historical connection between the Cyprus detainees and the founding of the State of Israel.]

Not Geographically Specific


Dr. Joseph Schwartz: “The Web Spinner” (2022)
Tuvia Friling

Re-evaluating the Role of American Jewry during the Holocaust (2022)
Jonathan Sarna

American Jewish Women Serving the JDC Abroad During the Interwar Years (2022)
Melissa Klapper

Impossible Reconstructions: Families After the Holocaust (2021)
Rebecca Clifford


The JDC Archives Names Index as a Window into JDC’s History (2020)
Jeffrey Edelstein

Searching for Survivors: The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers (2019)
Scott Miller

The US War Refugee Board and JDC (2018)
Rebecca Erbelding

The Creation of the Claims Conference 1951-1953: A Look Back at History (2016)
Rachel Blumenthal

Shadow Diplomats: American Jewish Foreign Policy in the Era of World Wars (2015)
Andrew Falk