Michal Frankl and Lidia Zessin-Jurek at Polin Museum

Published April 22, 2024

Panel: Poland as a Place of Refuge in the ‘Short’ 20th Century between Upheavals and New Beginnings

Several members of the Unlikely Refuge? team joined the 6th Congress on Polish Studies at the Technical University of Dresden (14-17 March […]

Published February 9, 2022

Trapped in No Man’s Land: Comparing Refugee Crises in the Past and Present (New Publication by Lidia Zessin-Jurek)

Images of refugees being trapped at the eastern Polish border have evoked memories of another time: in 1939, Polish Jews fleeing from […]

Published November 29, 2018

ERC grant for a Czech scientist for research into the history of refugees in East-Central Europe

Press release of the Czech Academy of Sciences, published on November 29, 2018 The historian of the Masaryk Institute and Archive of […]

Published February 9, 2021

Pamela Ballinger on Her Book “The World Refugees Made,” Discussed by the Unlikely Refuge? Team

On Thursday, 11 February at 3:30 pm (CET), the CAS SEE Weekly Seminar will host historian Pamela Ballinger. After a brief introduction on the ‘Unlikely […]