Our Programs on the Unfolding of the Holocaust in Europe foster research in regions where the Holocaust took place and where its study received limited societal, institutional, and financial support. While centered on and in Eastern Europe—the site of the mass murder of European Jewry—our work supports scholarship and networks of researchers across the continent.
Sustaining Holocaust research in Ukraine is a core priority of our programming. The generosity of the Piotr and Basheva Polsky Memorial Initiative for the Study of Ukrainian Jewry enables us to provide support and guidance to Holocaust scholars in Ukraine through a dedicated stipend program.
The Bricha Movement and Jewish Displacement in Postwar Europe (1944–1948)
Organizers: The Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem; the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); and the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism Host: NYU Prague June 28-29, 2027 Application deadline: January 30, 2027
Previous programs
Jewish Life in the Baltic States, 1917-1945 (International Conference in Kaunas, Lithuania)
Mass Violence and Jewish Responses: The Holocaust as a Local History in Eastern Europe (Workshop in Iasi, Romania)
New Perspectives on Researching and Teaching the Holocaust in Ukraine and Romania 2025 (Seminar in Iasi, Romania)
Jewish Life in the Baltic Region Before, During, and After the Holocaust 2024 (International Conference in Riga, Latvia)
Art and Literature of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union 2023 (Workshop at USHMM)
Contradictory Sources: Specific Problems of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union 2022 (Workshop in Jerusalem, Israel)
Wehrmacht Detention Sites and the Holocaust 2022 (online International Conference)
Everyday Life of Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust and its Early Aftermath 2021 (online Workshop)