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Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism

By Leo Spitzer (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Desperate to escape the increasingly vehement persecution in their homelands, thousands of refugees from Nazi-dominated Central Europe, the majority of them Jews, found refuge in Latin America in the 1930s. Bolivia became a principal recipient of this influx — one of the few remaining places in the entire world … Continued

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Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing

Edited by Jane O. Newman (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2015–16), Kader Konuk, and Vanessa Agnew The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, the contributions … Continued