G.I.'s and Jews after the Holocaust - Kierra Crago

This Program is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller. [i]About this lecture[/i] While the United States is often argued to have been a strong friend of the She’erith Hapletah, or surviving remnant of European Jewry, in postwar Displaced Persons camps in Germany, a closer examination of relations between members of these two parties illustrate a much more nuanced, and on occasion contentious, series of interactions ranging from aid and support to outright antisemitism and hostility. These ever-changing relations were often influenced by external world events and political shifts, which affected the status of Jewish Displaced Persons within American-controlled centers. [i]About Kierra Crago-Schneider[/i] Kierra Crago-Schneider's publications include her dissertation, completed at the University of California, Los Angeles, "Jewish Shtetls in Postwar Germany: An Analysis of Interactions Among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans, and Americans Between 1945 and 1957 in Bavaria" (2013) and “Antisemitism or Competing Interests? An Examination of German and American Perceptions of Jewish Displaced Persons Active on the Black Market in Munich’s Möhlstraße,” [i]Yad Vashem Review[/i] 38, no 1 (Spring 2010). Forthcoming works include: “A Community of Will: The Resettlement of the Orthodox from Föhrenwald,” [i]Holocaust and Genocide Studies[/i] 32, no 1 (Spring 2018) and “The JDC in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957,” co-authored with Avinoam Patt, in [i]The Joint Distribution Committee: 100 Years of Jewish History[/i], edited by Atina Grossmann, Linda Levi, Maud Mandel, and Avinoam Patt, Wayne State University Press, 2016.