The Holocaust and Varieties of Migration - Beyond Flight and Displacement

This volume sits on the crossroads between Holocaust studies and the history of migration and examines how different forms of migration broadly understood were part of the preparation, organization, and execution of the Holocaust. Such a comprehensive analysis of the intersection between the Holocaust and phenomena of migration during this period is currently missing in historiography. Therefore, larger questions are addressed such as: How can research on migration during and after the Holocaust illuminate the latter and vice-versa? How did displacement affect vulnerability and complicity of populations and their memory? Were there opportunities for escape and flight from the Holocaust and under what circumstances? What roles played citizenship, gender and race in the intersection of migration and the Holocaust? Did the destruction by the Holocaust also destroy the memory of those who were uprooted?

About the author

Cornelia Wilhelm, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Sebastian Musch, Osnabrück University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Musch (Editor), Sebastian Musch (Editor), Cornelia Wilhelm (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.04.2026
• EAN: 9783111201160
• ISBN: 978-3-11-120116-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Illustrations: 10 b/w ill.
• Series: New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Migration, Judentum, Holocaust, Genozide und ethnische Säuberung, jüdische Geschichte, Jewish Studies, The Holocaust, Migration, immigration & emigration, World War II, HIS054000 HISTORY / Social History, HIS022000 HISTORY / Jewish, Jewish History