Moderation: Dr. Anna Menny; Dr. Björn Siegel
The history of German-Jewish emigration to Argentina in the 20th century is a little researched chapter. Around 40-45,000 Jews from German-speaking countries fled Nazi persecution to the South American country between 1933 and 1945. A country that was foreign to them and where they found protection and new perspectives for their future life. In his lecture, Alfredo Schwarcz, himself a descendant of German-Jewish emigrants, talks about the experiences of the refugees and their descendants: about arriving in an foreign country, building new communities, the loss of a homeland and the caesura of flight, but also about dealing with memory and belonging(s) across generations. Personal stories help to illustrate how a new, multi-layered sense of belonging developed from flight and exile - characterized by uprooting, but also by the search for a place in the world.
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Institute for the history of the German Jews, Beim Schlump 83, Reading Room