Nikola Karasová and Julia Reinke presented today their joint paper entitled “We provide aid, like we would help brothers or sisters”? Practicing Solidarity with Greek Civil War Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the GDR. They participated in the workshop Comparing cultures of solidarity: socialist internationalism and solidarity across the Eastern […]
Monthly Archives: June 2022
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The UnRef’s principal investigator Michal Frankl joined a public debate on involuntary migration and integration of refugees in the Czech Republic. The in-person event was organized by the intercultural festival RefuFest in Prague on 24 June 2022 at 6 p.m. CET. The working language was Czech. The recording of the […]
Today, on 17 June 2022 at 4:30 CET, you can join online a webinar entitled “And then came the law”, commemorating the 1942 constitutional law on Jewish deportations from Slovakia. Michal Frankl will present a paper on first deportations of 1938, comparing the case of Nazi Germany and the Slovak […]
Please visit the official website of the German Historical Institute Warsaw The event will be transmitted by Zoom (June 30, 10 a.m. CET) Join Zoom Meeting
In this interpretation of his family’s refugee trajectory of survival, Yoram Eckstein touched upon the questions of fate and the room for maneuver within the context of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in which European Jewry found itself: Could Jews really decide their fate? […] It is also […]
In the Western public imagination, there is a certain image of a refugee deserving of our help: poor rather than rich, a woman rather than a man, frail rather than healthy. At the same time, the “ideal refugee” is supposed to be very similar to us, which would make it […]
In a recent interview for the online podcast of a popular Czech newspaper Blesk, Michal Frankl explained the public responses to the current refugee influx from Ukraine to Czechoslovakia by putting it into a historical perspective. For the full video in Czech please click here.