Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago
with Prof. Michael Brenner
Shortly after the Holocaust a quarter million Jews lived in the four occupation zones of what was once Germany. Most of them were East European Holocaust survivors who found a temporary refuge on what many considered a cursed soil. Next to them was a much smaller group of German Jews who survived the Nazi terror or returned from exile to rebuild a “better Germany.” How did they relate to postwar Germany and what was the relationship between these two Jewish communities?
This event is part of Many Promised Lands, LBI's 2026 lecture series covering migration of German-Jewish refugees after 1946.
This programming is made possible through the generous support of the Levi-Thalheimer Fund for Research and Public History.
with Prof. Michael Brenner
Shortly after the Holocaust a quarter million Jews lived in the four occupation zones of what was once Germany. Most of them were East European Holocaust survivors who found a temporary refuge on what many considered a cursed soil. Next to them was a much smaller group of German Jews who survived the Nazi terror or returned from exile to rebuild a “better Germany.” How did they relate to postwar Germany and what was the relationship between these two Jewish communities?
This event is part of Many Promised Lands, LBI's 2026 lecture series covering migration of German-Jewish refugees after 1946.
This programming is made possible through the generous support of the Levi-Thalheimer Fund for Research and Public History.
