G.I.'s and Jews after the Holocaust
Kierra Crago–Schneider
Monday, 17 Apr 2017 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Kierra Crago-Schneider is a program officer at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her work focuses on Jewish Displaced Persons’ interactions with their non-Jewish neighbors in the American zone of occupied Germany. She will discuss the treatment of Jewish Displaced Persons by the Office of the American Military Government, United States and ordinary GIs in Germany over the course of the American occupation and how these relationships changed Cold War history. Crago-Schneider earned a PhD in history from the University of California-Los Angeles.No podcast available for this event.
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.
About this lecture
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.
About Kierra Crago-Schneider
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,†Yad Vashem Review 38, no 1 (Spring 2010). Forthcoming works include: “A Community of Will: The Resettlement of the Orthodox from Föhrenwald,†Holocaust and Genocide Studies 32, no 1 (Spring 2018) and “The JDC in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957,†co-authored with Avinoam Patt, in The Joint Distribution Committee: 100 Years of Jewish History, edited by Atina Grossmann, Linda Levi, Maud Mandel, and Avinoam Patt, Wayne State University Press, 2016.
Cosponsored By:
- History
- The Kawaler Family Foundation
- United States Holocaust Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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