Wednesday, 14 November 2018
13:00–13:30
Welcome and Introduction
13:30–15:30
PANEL I: INDIVIDUALS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN SWITZERLAND
Chair: Patrik Süess (Basel)
Barbara Häne (Basel):
"The VSJF assisted these emigrants 100%, which (...) would not have been possible without the generous help of AJDC." - The relationship between the Association of Swiss Jewish Refugee Aid and Welfare Organisations (VSJF) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) during World War 2
Andrea Kirchner (Frankfurt/Jerusalem):
Richard Lichtheim (Jewish Agency/Geneva) and the Jewish refugee problem
Anne Lepper (Berlin):
“Fire extinguisher and a Jewish Red Cross” - Adolf Silberschein's RELICO and the Jewish Relief and Rescue activities in Switzerland during the Shoah
Respondent: Prof. Dr. Erik Petry (Basel)
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–18:00
PANEL II: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE
Chair: Olga Pollack (Basel)
Sarah Hagmann (Basel):
“Then he can emigrate to the Far East at his own risk”: Cooperation between the Far Eastern Central Jewish Information Bureau in Harbin and the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden in Berlin, 1938-1939
Dr. Katharina Friedla (Jerusalem/Warsaw):
Lithuania – Japan – Shanghai: Jewish Refugees Trajectories of Survival and Rescue during the Second World War.
Amelia Allsop (London):
‘Shanghai’s problem is Hong Kong’s concern also’: Baghdadi Jews and the Hong Kong Jewish Refugee Society, 1938-1940
Respondent: Dr. Gabriele Anderl (Vienna)
18:00–18:30
Coffee Break
18:30–19:30
KEY NOTE LECTURE
Dr. Marc Perrenoud (Neuchâtel):
1938, 1948. Two crucial moments for the Jewish Refugees and for Switzerland??
20:00
Workshop Dinner
For invited speakers, respondents and chairs
Thursday, 15 November 2018
09:00–11:00
PANEL III: ARRIVING IN NEW COUNTRIES
Chair: Rhea Rieben (Basel)
Dr. Clemens Maier-Wolthausen (Berlin):
Refuge in the North. The Swedish Jews and the German and Austrian Jewish Refugees 1933-1941
Dr. Joseph Cronin (London):
“I do not trust her protestations of life-long admiration for the British”: The rhetoric of visa applications, affidavits and responses to Jews seeking refuge in colonial India, 1938-1941
Dr. Philipp Strobl (Innsbruck/Melbourne):
From “Dago” to “Reffo” – Ambivalent Experiences of Encounter of Jewish refugees in Australia (1938-1942)
Respondent: Dr. Stefanie Mahrer (Basel)
11:00–11:30
Coffee Break
11:30–13:30
PANEL IV: CAMPS
Chair: Lisa-Marie Zoller-Blundell (Basel)
Catrina Langenegger (Basel):
“Housing in an Institution like this is in itself Humiliating for the Refugees.” Reception Camps in Switzerland 1942-1945.
Katrin Sippel (Vienna):
Jewish refugees in Portugal 1938-1945
Dr. András Szécsényi (Budapest):
The Liberated Hungarian Deportees of Bergen-Belsen in Sweden (1945-1946)
Respondent: Dr. Simon Erlanger (Lucerne)
13:30–14:30
Lunch Break
14:30–16:00
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Moderation: Dr. Stefanie Mahrer (Basel)
Dr. Gabriele Anderl (Vienna)
PD Dr. Susanne Heim (Berlin)
Dr. Christian Höschler (Bad Arolsen)
Dr. Simon Erlanger (Lucerne)
Dr. Marc Perrenoud (Neuchâtel)
All participants are invited to register no later than 15 October 2018 via e-mail to Sarah Hagmann <s.hagmann@unibas.ch>.