1st Edition
Practices of Reunification The Continuation of Refugee Life After 1945
Practices of Reunification: Agency and Refugee Experiences Post- 1945
Susanne Korbel and Philipp Strobl
Part I: Agency and Networks of Continuation
Chapter 1
Liberation Everywhere? Victims, Survivors of World War II and Displaced Persons Surviving After 1945
Michael Gehler
Chapter 2
To Save the Saviors: Reorganizing Anarchist Solidarity in Europe after World War II
Maria Tarasova Chomard
Chapter 3
“That Was My Mother”: Polish Jewish Family during the Holocaust in the Oral Testimonies of Halina Litman Peabody
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
Chapter 4
“We Don’t Want to Remain Any More in the Country of Mauthausen and Ebensee”: Agency of Jewish Displaced Persons with Chronic Health Conditions and Their
Resettlement after 1945
Johannes Glack
Part II: Relationships and Practices of Reunifcation
Chapter 5
To Those Near and Far: The Jewish Agency Search Bureau for
Missing Relatives
Rachel Blumenthal
Chapter 6
Economic Survival Strategies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors: Three Case Studies
Klaus Hagen
Chapter 7
Luke Wijnberg: The Possibilities of a Single Story
Andrea Wuerth
Biography
Susanne Korbel is a senior post-doc at the University of Graz. Among her most important publications are: Auf die Tour! Jüdinnen und Juden in Singspielhalle, Kabarett und Varieté zwischen Habsburgermonarchie und Amerika um 1900 (2021), and the Leo Baeck Insitute Essay Price winning article “Spaces of Gendered Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters.”
Philipp Strobl is a historian in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the intersection of knowledge history and migration history. He has published extensively in these fields, including monographs, edited volumes, and articles on migrating knowledge and its impact on societies in Europe, the United States, and Australia. His most recent book A History of Displaced Knowledge was recently published in the Studies in Global Migration History series. He also edited a special issue titled Lost Knowledge and Migration for the Journal of Migration History.
