Trapped in No Man’s Land: Comparing Refugee Crises in the Past and Present

0554541 - MÚA 2022 DE eng J - Journal Article
Zessin-Jurek, Lidia
Trapped in No Man’s Land: Comparing Refugee Crises in the Past and Present.
Cultures of History Forum. -, 20.12.2021 (2021). ISSN N
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 819461 - UnRef
Source of funding: R - Framework programmes of European Commission
Keywords : refugees * Poland * Second World War
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Method of publishing: Open access
http://dx.doi.org/10.25626/0134

Images of refugees being trapped at the eastern Polish border have evoked memories of another time: in 1939, Polish Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland eastwards were denied entry to the Soviet Union and were stuck right at the same place as people today, along the river Bug. Reflecting on the historical analogies that have been drawn in this context in Polish public debate, Lidia Zessin-Jurek’s article written for the “Cultures of History Forum” discusses their validity and usefulness in understanding similarities and differences of both past and present refugee crises.
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