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Nobodies’ Jews: Non-national Jews between Refuge and Deportation during the 1930s and the Holocaust

Descrizione del progetto

Uno sguardo più attento ai rifugiati ebrei durante la Seconda guerra mondiale

L’obiettivo generale del progetto HoloNNatJews, finanziato dall’UE, è quello di costruire un ritratto contestuale della cronologia dei rifugiati ebrei dall’ascesa al potere dei nazisti. Prendendo il Belgio come caso di studio rilevante, il progetto studia i rifugiati ebrei dell’Europa occidentale e centro-orientale elaborando un quadro analitico comprensivo di punti di vista giuridici, istituzionali e sociali. Il progetto, che si prefigge tre obiettivi di ricerca e si sviluppa attraverso diversi campi disciplinari, sarà attuato ricorrendo a due approcci metodologici e varie fonti di ricerca. I dati della ricerca saranno analizzati utilizzando software statistici e strumenti degli studi umanistici digitali. La costruzione di un futuro non discriminatorio per la società europea dipende dalla documentazione del terribile passaggio dalla normalità all’Olocausto, evitando così il ripetersi di atrocità simili.

Obiettivo

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.

Coordinatore

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 267 480,00
Indirizzo
OUDE MARKT 13
3000 Leuven
Belgio

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Regione
Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 267 480,00