Michal Frankl
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Michal Frankl
@michalfrankl.bsky.social
Historian. Masaryk Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. History of refugees, no man's land, antisemitism and the Holocaust. Principle Investigater ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge (www.unlikely-refuge.eu).
Today, at the POLIN Museum: Representatives of ten governments, including the Czech Republic, signed a statement creating the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure as an ERIC, a permanent organization supporting Holocaust research.
January 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Many of us read and were influenced by Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower. A new @ehri-project.eu edition prepared by the Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies provides essential context to this key work. Highly recommended!
January 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
New PhD position at the GWZO Leipzig, in the project Screening National Socialism: Ideology and Everyday Life in German Cinema 1933–1945". Interested in film in occupied Poland and Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia, as a "seismograph of society and culture"?

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January 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
As a memory, here is a photo from the exhibition about WWI refugees and your father's testimony (Orient in Bohemia. Jewish Museum Prague, 2014-15).
January 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Rachel Pistol on the geographic distribution of German and Austrian refugees in the UK during the WWII and the very diverse decision making of tribunals about their internment.

@ehri-eu.bsky.social Document Blog
November 29, 2024 at 8:21 AM
New @ehri-eu.bsky.social podcast: a lost letter, the story of Tommy Benford Junior, rescued by Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer
November 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM