Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish survival in the wartime Soviet Union

Source: Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies

This event is co-organised with UCL's Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish survival in the wartime Soviet Union
with Dr Eliyana Adler and Dr Markus Nesselrodt

Tuesday, 1 March 2022 18:00 – 19:00 GMT on Zoom

Eliyana Adler will discuss her new book in conversation with Markus Nesselrodt. They will delve into both the history and memory of the Polish Jews who survived the Second World War in the unoccupied regions of the USSR. The experiences of what became the majority of Polish Jewish survivors of the war, their struggles with sovietization, trials of deportation, and existential challenges in Soviet Central Asia are not widely known. In addition to outlining the major landmarks of their trajectory in Soviet territory, Adler and Nesselrodt will consider the eclipse of this important WWII story.

Eliyana Adler is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia and the coeditor of Polin 30: Jewish Education in Eastern Europe, among other books and articles. Dr Adler has held prestigious fellowships at a number of institutions including, most recently, Yad Vashem. Her current work focuses on Polish Jewish memorial books.

Markus Nesselrodt is a lecturer in eastern central European history at the Europe University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. He is interested in Polish and Russian history of the 18th to 20th centuries, with a focus on urban and migration history, and the history of Jewish communities in the region, including a research project on the history of the Warsaw Jewish community around 1800.

His first monograph addressed the escape to and survival of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1939-146: Dem Holocaust entkommen. Polnische Juden in der Sowjetunion, 1939–1946 (De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin 2019). It was awarded the annual Fritz Theodor Epstein prize of the German Association of Eastern European Studies, and is accessible online and through open access under following this link:

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Talk and book launch about how Polish Jews survived in the Soviet Union during war time

About this event

Eliyana Adler will discuss her new book in conversation with Markus Nesselrodt. They will delve into both the history and memory of the Polish Jews who survived the Second World War in the unoccupied regions of the USSR. The experiences of what became the majority of Polish Jewish survivors of the war, their struggles with sovietization, trials of deportation, and existential challenges in Soviet Central Asia are not widely known. In addition to outlining the major landmarks of their trajectory in Soviet territory, Adler and Nesselrodt will consider the eclipse of this important WWII story.

Eliyana Adler is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia and the coeditor of Polin 30: Jewish Education in Eastern Europe, among other books and articles. Dr Adler has held prestigious fellowships at a number of institutions including, most recently, Yad Vashem. Her current work focuses on Polish Jewish memorial books.