Using the example of a group of refugees from Czechoslovakia in Canada during World War II, the author analyzes knowledge transfers through migration and their limitations in changing political and economic environments. Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s Jul 17, 2025 Swen Steinberg
Presents the knowledge produced and shared in refugee letters in periodicals in Switzerland in the post-World War II period. Epistolary Knowledge in Transit: Migrant Letters in Swiss Refugee Periodicals after the Second World War Aug 21, 2023 Ramon Wiederkehr
Call for papers for workshop at USC Los Angeles from 28-29 June 2024 on Archives in/of Transit Archives in/of Transit: Historical Perspectives from the 1930s to the Present Jun 23, 2023
Examines letters written to RELICO during the war by individuals seeking to share knowledge with loved ones or to receive information about them. Contextualizing the letters allows us to better appreciate the personalized knowledge transfer that occurred on a mass scale. ‘I beg you again from my heart to help me find my sister’: RELICO and the Need for Knowledge Dec 8, 2022 Charlie Knight
Anne-Christin Klotz has published a new book with De Gruyter, Gemeinsam gegen Deutschland, analyzing the Yiddish press in Poland, 1930-1941. New Book from the Network: Yiddish Press in Poland in the Nazi Era Oct 11, 2022 Anne-Christin Klotz
During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire. Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris Oct 21, 2021 Robin Buller
Using oral history, the author explores how a Polish Jewish family "used knowledge as a strategy not merely to survive but to build a new life" in what turned out to be a highly contingent transit process. Knowledge as a Strategy on the Migratory Routes of Polish Jewish Survivors after World War II Mar 29, 2021 Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
Event to launch "Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories," the first book to cover forced emigration from Nazi-controlled Europe to the territories of the British Empire as a whole. (Oct. 7, 2020, via Zoom. Registration required.) Virtual Book Launch: The British Empire as Refuge? Sep 5, 2020
A book for children about young refugees in New York was rooted in real experiences. Its author's eye for children's agency can help us to understand refugee children as go-betweens in wartime New York. Young Refugees and Knowledge in New York during World War II: The Example of Babette Deutsch’s ‘The Welcome’ Aug 17, 2020 Swen Steinberg
How to name people who move their lives across borders willingly or under duress? Eliyana Adler discusses the diverse terms contemporaries used to identify the various groups of Polish Jews who survived World War II as refugees in the Soviet Union. What’s in a Name? How Titles Construct and Convey Knowledge about Migrants Jun 18, 2020 Eliyana R. Adler
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann
Through playtime, Jewish refugee children in Shanghai acquired specific knowledge about their new home through sources unavailable to adults refugees. The Power of Play: Jewish Refugee Children in World War II Shanghai Mar 18, 2020 Kimberly Cheng