Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

# MigKnow Notes 3

May 2, 2019

Call: Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century

Workshop, April 23–24, 2020, German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), Washington, DC
CFP Deadline: June 15, 2019

Program: In Global Transit: Forced Migration of Jews and other Refugees (1940s–1960s)

May 20–22, 2019, Pacific Regional Office of GHI Washington and the MAGNES Collection of Jewish Art and Life, both at the University of California, Berkeley

Crowdsourced Project: German Heritage in Letters

Digital project to find and share historic German-American correspondence
Managed by GHI Washington

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