Polish Jews on the Move from the Soviet Union
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Gennady Estraikh (NYU) im Begleitprogramm zur Ausstellung »Jiddisch. Jüdisch. Taitsch.«
The talk will focus on the two waves of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland, in the late 1940s and 1950s. Ultimately, the majority proceeded to other countries. In the second half of the 1940s, displaced persons camps in Germany became places of transit, with Munich as a makeshift center with a range of Yiddish cultural activities, which declined after the majority of Jewish survivors left for other countries, mainly Israel and America.
For a variety of reasons, hundreds of Polish-born Jews, both those who came from the Soviet Union or were liberated from Nazi camps, made home in Germany and took part in building the organizational infrastructure of the Jewish community in Germany.
Der Vortrag ist in englischer Sprache.
Ort
Ehemalige Synagoge Kriegshaber
Ulmer Straße 228, 86156 Augsburg
