The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop Global Geographies of the Holocaust: Mapping Jewish Refugee Resettlement. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Sandra Gruner-Domic and Pragya Kaul Guido in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC. Anne Kelly Knowles, the 2026-27 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, will serve as an advisor to the workshop participants. The workshop will meet in two sessions in Washington, DC, and will include research and convenings at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and NYU Washington, DC. The first session will be held October 5–7, 2026 and the second July 26–30, 2027.
This workshop is the first step toward a larger, public-facing project to produce a resource that allows researchers and educators to document, analyze, and visualize the scale and temporal patterns of Holocaust migration. At its center is the design of a durable, open access dataset to support mapping and visualization projects on the global geography of Holocaust refugee resettlement. The workshop will focus on building the conceptual, methodological, and evidentiary foundations for this resource.
Workshop Structure
The workshop will convene for its first session from October 5–7, 2026, as a collaborative design forum. Participants will collectively define the project’s scope, theoretical framework, and the structure of its dataset. By establishing unified categories, sources, and metadata, we will create a global framework to document these resettlement projects, illuminating the interconnected, global scale of Holocaust refugee history.
Building on the outcomes and collaborative plans established during our first meeting, the second session, scheduled for July 26–30, 2027, will focus on refining the structure of the dataset and discussing whether both planned and realized settlements could be integrated into the dataset design as next steps for this project. During this session, participants will also conduct research in the Museum’s collections and other archives in the Washington, D.C. area and use their individual case studies to test and advance the dataset’s shared categories.
Scope and Methods
This workshop welcomes contributions from scholars whose research engages with the relationship between the Holocaust and global migration. We are particularly interested in applicants with transnational or regional expertise who are interested in visualizing research through mapping, database design, spatial analysis, or other digital methods. Prior experience with digital humanities or mapping is welcome but not required.
For further details and the full Call for Applications, please visit http://www.ushmm.org/research-workshops
This workshop has been made possible through the generosity of the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz Endowment at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and NYU Washington, DC.
Global Geographies of the Holocaust: Mapping Jewish Refugee Resettlement
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop Global Geographies of the Holocaust: Mapping Jewish Refugee Resettlement. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Sandra Gruner-Domic and Pragya Kaul Guido in cooperation with NYU Washington, DC. Anne Kelly Knowles, the 2026-27 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, will serve as an advisor to the workshop participants. The workshop will meet in two sessions in Washington, DC, and will include research and convenings at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and NYU Washington, DC. The first session will be held October 5–7, 2026 and the second July 26–30, 2027.
This workshop is the first step toward a larger, public-facing project to produce a resource that allows researchers and educators to document, analyze, and visualize the scale and temporal patterns of Holocaust migration. At its center is the design of a durable, open access dataset to support mapping and visualization projects on the global geography of Holocaust refugee resettlement. The workshop will focus on building the conceptual, methodological, and evidentiary foundations for this resource.
Workshop Structure
The workshop will convene for its first session from October 5–7, 2026, as a collaborative design forum. Participants will collectively define the project’s scope, theoretical framework, and the structure of its dataset. By establishing unified categories, sources, and metadata, we will create a global framework to document these resettlement projects, illuminating the interconnected, global scale of Holocaust refugee history.
Building on the outcomes and collaborative plans established during our first meeting, the second session, scheduled for July 26–30, 2027, will focus on refining the structure of the dataset and discussing whether both planned and realized settlements could be integrated into the dataset design as next steps for this project. During this session, participants will also conduct research in the Museum’s collections and other archives in the Washington, D.C. area and use their individual case studies to test and advance the dataset’s shared categories.
Scope and Methods
This workshop welcomes contributions from scholars whose research engages with the relationship between the Holocaust and global migration. We are particularly interested in applicants with transnational or regional expertise who are interested in visualizing research through mapping, database design, spatial analysis, or other digital methods. Prior experience with digital humanities or mapping is welcome but not required.
For further details and the full Call for Applications, please visit http://www.ushmm.org/research-workshops
This workshop has been made possible through the generosity of the Moskowitz/Rafalowicz Endowment at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and NYU Washington, DC.