Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) wrote an article titled “Polish refugees in no man’s land. When the borderline was a legal vacuum” (in Polish Polscy uchodźcy na ziemi niczyjej. Gdy linia graniczna była próżnią prawa). The text, which deals with refugees trapped in no man’s land on the German-Soviet border in the autumn and winter of 1939, was published at Wyborcza.pl on September 6, 2021. The article will also appear in the print edition of Gazeta Wyborcza on September 18, 2021.
Exploratory workshop Among the multifaceted transformations of East-Central Europe in the 1990s, mobility and open borders turned into one of the symbols […]
On 14 January 2021, Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) and Katharina Friedla were invited to present their book “Syberiada Żydów polskich” at a […]
Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) took part in the programme of the 18th Festival of Jewish Culture – Singer’s Warsaw on August, 26th, […]
Prague, April 11–12, 2024 The refugee experience is inevitably spatial. It involves movement between different places and imagination of locations as spaces […]
