Professional Background
Johannes Glack is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Vienna, where he also received a master's degree in contemporary history and media and a bachelor's degree in anthropology. Mr. Glack is currently part of the ERC research group GLORE – “Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons Learned from the Postwar (1945-1951).” Previously, he served as a research associate with the Yad Vashem Archives Research Delegation in Austria and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
While completing his studies, Mr. Glack has visited several archives in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Switzerland, and Israel to research the micro-level experiences of refugees and their individual or collective agency alongside meso- and macro-level analyses of the transnational management of migration after the Shoah.
Fellowship Research
While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Sosland Foundation Fellow, Johannes Glack will conduct research on the postwar migration of Holocaust survivors with health-related challenges. He follows the question of how survivors were hindered at first in their efforts to emigrate due to violence-induced health issues, and how migration schemes and rehabilitation programs for this specific group were established and organized in Europe and Asia. Mr. Glack plans to utilize the Museum's archival collections to elucidate the involvement of Jewish organizations in rehabilitation efforts for Jewish displaced persons in Europe and to examine how organizations like the World Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee were involved in negotiating migration schemes.
Residency Period: September 1, 2025–December 31, 2025