Exhibition: Persecuted and Saved: Catalonia and Jewish Refugees during WWII
Curator: Joseph Calvet, Lleida University
The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies | The Elias Sourasky Chair of Iberian & Latin American Studies | The Kahn Institute for History of the Mediterranean Basin | The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities | Elias Sourasky Central Library | Diputació de Lleida
The inauguration will be held on Thursday, December 13, 2018, 16:00, At the Sourasky Central Library's Lobby
Greetings:
Raanan Rein, Vice President, Tel Aviv University
Manuel Gómez-Acebo, Ambassador of Spain in Israel
Naama Scheftelowitz, Director, the Elias Sourasky Central Library
Josep Calvet, Lleida University
Gerard Sabarich, Second Vice President, Deputation of Lleida
Jacques Arad, Survivor testimony (in Hebrew)
The greetings will be held in English and Spanish.
The exhibition “Persecuted and Saved: Catalonia and Jewish Refugees during WWII” portrays the narratives of Jewish refugees who crossed the Pyrenees in Lérida (Catalan: Lleida) in search of escape routes from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. It describes and emphasizes the humanity and solidarity in the encounter between the local inhabitants and the refugees, and it includes testimonies of those whose lives were saved by their arrival to Spain (some of these survivors live in Israel).
The exhibition is part of an extensive commemoration project of the Dipotació de Lleida, which marks the places where the refugees passed through during WWII and allows following these escape routes.
The project began in 2013 with the aspiration to promote, inter alia, the development of Pyrenees culture and tourism, by raising public awareness of this episode in history.
Curator: Dr. Josep Calvet, University of Lleida. Dr. Calvet is the Academic consultant for the project “Persecuted and Saved”. He has dedicated his research into the studying of the passing of the Jewish refugees through the Pyrenees. He is also the author of various books on this topic.
The conference Spain and the Jews, 1933 - 1950 will be held on Monday, December 17, 2018, between the hours of 9:00 am-7:00 pm, Wiener Library, Wiener Gruss Building, 2nd Floor
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