Michal Frankl and Lidia Zessin-Jurek at Polin Museum

Published July 11, 2025

UnRef and OSCE ODIHR: Bringing Historians and Human Rights Defenders into Joint Discussion

The challenges at our borders aren’t new. That’s why OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the ECR Consolidator […]

Published March 30, 2022

Lidia Zessin-Jurek: Real refugees, fake refugees

After pushing back Middle Eastern refugees into the forests on its northern border with Belarus, Poland is now welcoming an unprecedented number […]

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 September 9, 2022

Doina Anca Cretu: Child Assistance and the Making of Modern Refugee Camps in Austria-Hungary during the First World War

Abstract This article explores the development of modern refugee camps in Austria-Hungary during the First World War by looking at the organization […]