Please join the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Barnard’s Forum on Migration, the Committee on Forced Migration and the European Institute for a screening of the film: "Paris Stalingrad" A film by Hind Meddeb Co-directed by Thim Naccache Summer 2016. Paris. Refugees arriving from Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Afghanistan have no other choice than to sleep in…
Facing an escalating demand for entry into the United States by German-speaking Jews in Shanghai in early 1941, the United States Consulate called the JDC for help. No one forewarned Laura Margolis, a translator for immigration interviews, about the living conditions of 16,000 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, all desperate for food and housing. She set up…
Dear Erich is inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father. Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. How can a family cope as the walls of their nation's hatred close in around them? For those who escape, what lies ahead? Even in…