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Virtual Book Talk: The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
12pm-1:15pm
In this talk, co-editors Danielag Gleizer, Emmanuel Kahan, and Yael Siman will present The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory, a volume that explores the region's overlooked role in Holocaust history. Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 Jewish refugees found shelter in Latin America, yet its significance has remained on the periphery of Holocaust studies. Adopting a global lens, the book examines Latin America both as a region and a constellation of distinct national contexts, weaving together themes of migration, resettlement, and memory. It not only addresses the immigration policies of Latin American governments but also amplifies the experiences and voices of Jewish survivors who found refuge in this culturally diverse region.
This webinar is cosponsored by the JDC Archives and the Brandeis University Initiative on the Jews of the Americas (JOTA).
Daniela Gleizer is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a Ph.D. in History from El Colegio de México and has received several awards for her work. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Mexican state and foreigners, with an emphasis on immigration and naturalization policies. She is the author of Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 (Brill, 2014). She teaches graduate and postgraduate history courses at UNAM, is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers and the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, and is an Affiliate Researcher at USC’s Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan holds a PhD in History and a Master's in History and Memory from the National University of La Plata. He is a researcher at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Research and a professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, also at the National University of La Plata. In addition, he serves as coordinator of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Institute for Economic and Social Development (NEJ-IDES) and directs the Diploma in Hate Speech at the Ana Frank Center in Argentina. His published work spans Jewish life in Argentina, the reception of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the region, and Holocaust memory.
Yael Siman earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and is currently a Research Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Iberoamericana University in Mexico City. She is co-author of Victim Activists in Mexico: Social and Political Mobilization amid Extreme Violence and Disappearances (Lexington Books, 2024), and “From Europe to Mexico: The Unexpected Journey of Thirty Jewish Families Escaping Nazism” (Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2024). Dr. Siman was a 2024–2025 fellow of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and, in 2025, received a Fulbright scholarship for the US-Mexico Chair. She is currently leading a research project on the migration trajectories and memory practices of Holocaust survivors in Mexico.
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