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1. SEEKING PROTECTION
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3. SEEKING PROTECTION
A blog exploring what we can learn from the experiences of refugees before, during and after the Holocaust – today
Topics
(1) Contemporary Relevance
(2) 80th Anniversary of the Kindertransport
(3) Difficult Journeys
(4) Personal Stories
(5) Responsibility: Rescuers and Bystanders
(6) Challenging Questions

4. CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
• IHRA delegates share their thoughts about how to sensitively approach the contemporary relevance of the
Holocaust
• Anastasia Vakaloudi introduces an educational programme in Thessaloniki
• A lesson from Facing History and Ourselves connects the present day global refugee situation to the history
of the Holocaust
• Ben Barkow, Director of the Wiener Library considers debates raised when we confront refugee situations
past and present
• Support Refugees – a website created to enable the Jewish community to support refugees
• IHRA delegate Karen Polak asks can we compare refugees fleeing the Holocaust with situations today?
• Historian Carl Bon Tempo reflects on US refugee policies past and present
• Political philosopher Tamar de Waal questions how we face today’s situations and whether we have learned
from the past
• Alice Herscovitch, Montreal Holocaust Museum, considers what we can do today
• Belle Jarniewski explains how the Jewish community of Winnipeg are supporting Yazidis refugees

5. KINDERTRANSPORT – 80th ANNIVERSARY
• Michael Newman, Chief Executive of The Association of Jewish Refugees
introduces the Kindertransport
• Ben Barkow, Director of the Wiener Library discusses some of the issues raised in
the library’s temporary exhibition A Bitter Road: Britain and the Refugee Crisis of
the 1930s and 1940s
• Amy Williams questions whether moral lessons can be learned from
Kindertransport fiction

6. DIFFICULT JOURNEYS
• Resources from the Joint Distribution Committee about the difficulty of returning home from
Displaced Persons camps
• Read the story of the tragic fate of the passengers of the St. Louis, who sought entry to the
United States
• Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation resources about the difficulties Polish Jews
faced trying to flee, post-war
• Find out about the precarious trips Romanian Jews made in the early 1940s
• Resources about seeking refuge in Latin America and Cuba
• Dr. Susanne Heim discusses the difficulties faced by Jewish refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany
• Resources about the internment of Jewish refugees in Canada from the Vancouver Holocaust
Education Centre

7. PERSONAL STORIES
• Explore the stories of two Jewish families from Münster
• Find out how Sir Erich Reich fled to England from Vienna via the Kindertransport
• Explore video testimony courtesy of the IWitness activity ‘We Were Refugees’
• Resources about Sousa Mendes, who resisted Portuguese refugee policy to save
hundreds of Jews

8. RESPONSIBILITY: RESCUERS AND BYSTANDERS
• Reflections on opposition towards refugees and the position of neutral countries
• Online module about the Evian Conference (1938)
• Belle Jarniewski discusses the establishment of the U.S. War Refugee Board
• Find out how a Portuguese Consul saved hundreds of Jews

9. CHALLENGING QUESTIONS
• Why didn’t they all leave? – Yad Vashem and USHMM resources
• Why didn’t more countries help? An online module by the House of the
Wannsee Conference
• Can we compare? A resource from Facing History and Ourselves
• How can we draw contemporary relevance from the Holocaust in sensitive ways?