This international conference will study the broad theme of the flight of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and their trajectories during the war and its aftermath from multiple perspectives.

Keynote speeches by

Claire Zalc (Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris):

Le renouveau des sources dans l’étude de la Shoah et les perspectives microhistoriques

Frank Caestecker (Ghent University):

State persecution and protection: the political determinants of the Jewish refugee flow (1933-1948)

Susanne Heim (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München – Berlin):

Ökonomie der Flucht. Enteignung, Erpressung und Gegenwehr

Detailed programme and more information on the C²DH website.

Opening Keynote by Dalia Ofer

Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
The historian and his/her protagonists

on 24 January 2018 at Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg-City

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Photo:

Albert Nussbaum, Director of Transmigration for the American Joint Distribution Committee, poses in the port of Lisbon in front of a wooden fence that cordons off the Jewish refugees who are waiting to board the SS Mouzinho. (10 June 1941)

© United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Koch

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