Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) wrote an article titled “Polish refugees in no man’s land. When the borderline was a legal vacuum” (in Polish Polscy uchodźcy na ziemi niczyjej. Gdy linia graniczna była próżnią prawa). The text, which deals with refugees trapped in no man’s land on the German-Soviet border in the autumn and winter of 1939, was published at Wyborcza.pl on September 6, 2021. The article will also appear in the print edition of Gazeta Wyborcza on September 18, 2021.
In the Western public imagination, there is a certain image of a refugee deserving of our help: poor rather than rich, a […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team will coorganize and participate at the “Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War. Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, […]
Michal Frankl and Lidia Zessin-Jurek participated at the Challenging Concepts in Refugee History workshop, organized at the University of Gothenburg, its Faculty […]
On 23-26 May 2022, Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) participated in a conference at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw entitled Bridging Divides. […]
