Vortrag von Sharon Park: Narrating Humanitarian Aid to European Refugee Children after the Second World War (1945–1953)

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This presentation addresses the challenges with accessing the voices of Jewish refugee children and youth in both contemporaneous and retrospective personal narratives. In addition to questionnaire responses and social agencies’ case files collected from archives in Austria, the United Kingdom and the United States, this project works closely with interviews from the “Refugee Stories” oral history collection of the Association of Jewish Refugees, “The Girls” oral history collection at the Wiener Library, and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Commented by Rita Horváth

Sharon Park is Junior Fellow at the VWI. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Minnesota and has worked as a graduate assistant at the Center for Austrian Studies in Minnesota and an editorial assistant of the Austrian History Yearbook from 2013–2015.

Rita Horváth will be a Research Fellow at the VWI in 2017/2018. She is a literary scholar and a historian. She received her PhD from Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel) in 2003. In the spring semester of the academic year 2009/2010, she was a scholar-in-residence at Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA). At present, she is a research fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem.

Link: Veranstaltung auf der Website des VWI