|
After World War II, the Allies established Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the occupied zones of Germany, Austria, and Italy.
Within less than a year, the birth rate among the Jewish population in Europe’s DP camps became the highest of any group in the world at the time.
In this lecture, Dr. Serafima Velkovich will discuss the history and significance of this remarkable phenomenon and explore how former DP babies and their descendants can trace family histories through archival and genealogical research.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Serafima Velkovich holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the microhistory of Holocaust survivors’ families in Displaced
Persons camps, the DP baby boom, Holocaust memory, and the formation of personal and collective identities among those born in DP camps. This year, she continued her research as a visiting scholar at New York University’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism,
where she expanded her work on DP baby boomers with particular attention to the American context, Jewish identity formation, and encounters with antisemitism.
|
