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Return Home: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna

Public Program
Austrian Jews return to Vienna from Shanghai on February 2, 1947.  Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

Austrian Jews return to Vienna from Shanghai on February 2, 1947. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration

6 p.m. Buffet dinner
7 p.m. Lecture

Dr. Elizabeth Anthony will discuss her research on Jewish Holocaust survivors’ return to and resettlement in postwar Vienna, Austria. She also will provide a short overview of her work with the International Tracing Service Digital Archive at the Museum and the benefits it offers to Holocaust survivors and their families.

Dr. Anthony received her PhD in history at Clark University in 2016 and also holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She was the recipient of a 2010–2011 Fulbright research grant to Austria.

Speaker
Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, International Tracing Service (ITS) and Partnerships Program Manager, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Please RSVP to Gail Rosenthal at Gail.Rosenthal@stockton.edu or 609.652.4699 by Tuesday, February 27.

This event is hosted by the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage of Stockton University and the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center.

This program is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by Alan Solomon, MD.

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