The program of the conference “Evacuation, the Soviet Union and the Jews”.
“Hazit HaKavod” Movement
Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities of the East
Jerusalem, Israel
International Online Conference
«Evacuation, the Soviet Union and the Jews»
Problems, Assessments and Evidence
December 21-22, 2021
December 21
10:00 – 10:45. Opening of the conference
Opening remarks
Dr. Alexander Berman, President of the “Hazit HaKavod” Movement
Greetings
Shlomo Gur, Associate Executive Vice-President, Claims Conference
Colette Avital, Head of the public organization “Center of organizations of Holocaust survivors in Israel”
Dr. Andrzej Gasiorovsky, Chairman of “The Helping Hand to Israel” Coalition
12:45 – 13:15. Break
11:00 – 12:45. First session: General aspects
Moderator – Prof. John Goldlust (Australia)
Dr. Kiril Feferman (Israel). Evacuation, Jews and the USSR: Problems
Dr. Vadim Dubson (Israel). Two million evacuated Soviet Jews: True or fiction?
Discussion
12:45 – 13:15. Break
13:15 – 14:45. Reports and testimonies of Holocaust refugee evacuations
Victor Guin (Israel). Unsent letter to Ilya Ehrenburg
Igor Kogan (Israel). 1000 memories of Holocaust refugees on the website “Evacuation www. lost-childhood. com
Haya Tsadikova (Israel). From Lithuania to the Arctic Ocean
Gregory Nisenboim (Israel). On some aspects in the history of Jewish refugees
Yakov Liberman (Israel). And yet we are in Israel… (the story of the rescue from the nazis of the destruction of a Jewish boy)
14:45 – 16:00. Break
16:00 – 17:00. Second session: Anti-Semitism
Moderator – Dr. Zeev Levin (Israel)
Dr. Támás Kéndé (Hungary). Contemporary perceptions and reports of anti-Semitism as socio-historical sources
Dr. Natalie Belsky (USA). The role of anti-Semitism in the survival strategy of evacuees
Discussion
17:00 – 17:15. Break
17:15 – 18:00. Reports and testimonies of the evacuation of Holocaust refugees
Yakov Basin (Israel). From Mozyr to Orel on its own
Gregory Reichman (Israel). Dani Berzin’s memories on the country “Evacuation”
Ilya Maizelis (Israel). Memories of children of the war about besieged Leningrad and the evacuation (based on the book “It was…”, St. Petersburg, 2021)
December 22
10:00 – 11:45. Third session: Evacuation, migration and emigration
Moderator – Dr. Markus Nesselrodt (Germany)
Prof. Yakov Zingberg (Japan). Passing through the USSR to Japan and beyond. Jewish refugees in 1940-41
Baron A.I., Chilikova E.V. (Kazakhstan). Studying Holocaust tragedy: Results and lacunae
Dr. Irina Rebrova (Germany). The fate of evacuated Jewish doctors to the North Caucasus: From the experience of working on the project “Remember us…”
Prof. Marina Potemkina (Russia). Cultural trauma of non-Holocaust Survivors: Returning home from evacuation
Discussion
11:45 – 12:00. Break
12:00 – 14:00. Reports and testimonies of the evacuation of Holocaust refugees
Dr. Avrum Scharnopolsky (Israel). Memories of the life of Polish Jews in the evacuation in Central Asia
Bertha Feinstein (Israel). The story of the rescue of Jewish children from the pioneer camp in Krapivts (Belarus)
Yakov Basin. Evacuation of population and equipment is one of the main reasons for the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic war
14:00 – 15:30. Break
15:30 – 16:45. Fourth session: War and evacuation
Moderator – Dr. Kiril Feferman
Dr. Leonid Terushkin (Russia). Correspondence between the front and the hinterland as a source for the study of the evacuation of Soviet Jews
Dr. Alexander Berman. Holocaust refugee testimonies as a historical source
Dr. Albert Kaganovich (Canada). Bitter years: Jewish refugees in orphanages, 1941-1945
Discussion
16:45 – 17:00. Break
17:00 – 17:45. Round table “History, historiography and politics in the study of evacuation”
Moderator – Dr. Kiril Feferman
Prof. Ilya Altman (Russia)
Dr. Alexander Berman
Dr. Zeev Levin
17:45 – 18:00. Conclusion of the conference
Dr. Alexander Berman, Prof. Ilya Altman, Dr. Kiril Feferman