Join the JDC Archives and the Jewish Book Council for a webinar
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Join the JDC Archives and the Jewish Book Council for a
talk by David Nasaw
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Holocaust
Survivors in Exile in Germany after World War II
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A protest in the
Bergen-Belsen DP camp, Germany, c.1947
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Monday,
October 11, 2021
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NOON - 1 PM (EDT)
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ZOOM (Webinar)
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RSVP
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Purchase tickets
for $10.00
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The suffering
of the Holocaust survivors did not end with the cessation of hostilities
in Europe in May of 1945, as documents, correspondence, and reports from
Germany in the JDC Archives make abundantly clear. A quarter of a million
who had survived the death, concentration, and labor camps or spent the
war years in hiding or in the Soviet Union would after the Nazi defeat be
forced to spend another three to five years in quasi-incarceration in
displaced persons camps in Germany. While other eastern European displaced
persons would eventually be resettled in lands suffering from postwar
labor shortages, no nation, including the United States, was willing to
accept more than a handful of Jewish survivors. When in June, 1948, the
United States Congress passed legislation permitting the immigration of
displaced persons, the law was written in such a way as to deny visas to
90% of the Jewish displaced persons. Making full use of the voluminous
and invaluable resources in the JDC Archives, David Nasaw, the author of The Last Million: Europe's
Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, will tell the
story of this tragic and too often overlooked chapter in Jewish history.
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David
Nasaw is the author
of The Last Million:
Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War,
published by Penguin Press in 2020; The Patriarch, selected by the New
York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year and a 2013
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times
Notable Book of the Year, the recipient of the New-York Historical
Society's American History Book Prize and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist in Biography; and The
Chief, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize for History
and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Nonfiction. He is a past
president of the Society of American Historians, and until 2019, he
served as the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at
the CUNY Graduate Center. Nasaw earned his Ph.D. from Columbia
University.
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Jewish Book Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
educating and enriching the community through Jewish literature,
strengthening connections to Jewish life and identity, and
inspiring conversations between generations of readers. Learn more
about its programs and resources here.
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The views and opinions expressed in the public program are
those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the position of
the JDC.
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