Project description DEENESFRITPL A closer look at Jewish refugees during WWII The overarching aim of the EU-funded HoloNNatJews project is to construct a contextual timeline portrait of Jewish refugees from the Nazi’s rise to power. Taking Belgium as a relevant case study, the project investigates Jewish refugees from Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe by developing an analytical framework comprising legal, institutional, and social standpoints. Set around three research objectives and cutting across several disciplinary fields, the project will be implemented by mobilising two methodological approaches and a variety of research sources. The research data will be analysed by employing statistical software and digital humanities tools. Building a non-discriminatory future for European society depends on documenting the terrible shift from normality to Holocaust, thus preventing the reoccurrence of similar atrocities. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective The Nazi’s rise to power and occupation of large swathes of Europe had a significant impact on more than 17 million individuals. Jews formed the biggest group that was racially targeted by Nazi Germany. National Jewish communities in all European countries suffered from the increasing destruction of the Nazis. Notably, more than two thirds of all the Jewish victims in Nazi-occupied and Nazi allied countries were non-national Jews. Within this group, a large number were refugees after the Reich’s conquests of the 1930s. Tragically, many of them found refuge in countries that were subsequently occupied by Nazi Germany, from where the vast majority of them would be deported and killed. Although non-national Jews make up a significant percentage of the Jewish victims in their respective countries, we know next to nothing about them. Taking Belgium as a particularly relevant case study, with more than 93% of non-national Jews within its total Jewish population, but less than half of non-national Jews within its total Jewish victims, this proposal investigates Jewish refugees from Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe alike. This research project will reconstruct the timeline of Jewish refugees’ lives since their arrival, throughout the 1930s, and during Nazi occupation of the 1940s by employing an analytical framework comprising legal, institutional, and social standpoints. Build around three research objectives and cutting across several disciplinary fields, this research idea will be implemented by mobilizing two methodological approaches and a variety of research sources. The research data will be analysed by employing statistical software and digital humanities tools. This research subject is relevant for the European policy on learning from the Holocaust to address the situation of refugees’ today, while this fellowship project constitutes a key step in this fellow career trajectory: to return to research and reach medium and long-term goals. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarehumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorymodern historysocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrationshumanitiesother humanitieslibrary sciencesdigital humanities Keywords Holocaust Non-national Jews Refugees Political Civil and Economic Rights Racial laws Local institutions Nazi occupying authorities Local population Statistical research Digital humanities Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Net EU contribution € 267 480,00 Address OUDE MARKT 13 3000 Leuven Belgium See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 267 480,00
