Exhibition

The Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (German Resistance Memorial Center) saw the 80th anniversary of the Évian refugee conference as an opportunity to recall the history of that event, with an exhibition made possible through the support of the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Friede-Springer Foundation and the Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.

The exhibition, “Closed Borders: The International Conference on Refugees in Évian 1938,” ran from July 27 to October 5, 2018 in the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand in Berlin. The prelude to thon Refugee e conference, and its course and consequences, were vividly documented with about 450 photos and documents from more than 100 archives and institutions from 26 countries.

Ziporet W. Carmel, an educator from Tel Aviv and the oldest daughter of Eli Carmel, whose refugee story is told in the exhibition, addressed more than 150 guests at the opening event on July 26, 2018.

Accompanying the exhibition is a 400-page catalog, which can be ordered at Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (at a cost of € 10 plus € 2 postage):

Frédéric Bonnesoeur/Christine Kausch/Thomas Lindner/Winfried Meyer/Julia Pietsch (eds.): Geschlossene Grenzen. Die Internationale Flüchtlingskonferenz von Èvian 1938, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-9820069-01.

Exhibition imprint

Closed Borders: The International Conference on Refugees in Évian 1938
An exhibition of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technische Universität Berlin, and the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

 

           

 

Concept and project management
Dr. Winfried Meyer

Academic team
Frédéric Bonnesoeur
Dr. Isabel Enzenbach
Martin Jost
Christine Kausch
Dikla Katz
Thomas Lindner
Julia Pietsch

With support from
Saskia Beyer
Prof. Dr. Jesús Casquete
Prof. Dr. Boris Chawkin
PD Dr. Barbara Dröscher
Dr. Marcus Funck
Karoline Georg
Prof. Dr. Wolf Gruner
Dr. Andrea Hopp
Veronika Kiesche
Prof. Dr. Klaus Neumann
Leonie Schüler-Springorum
Dr. Ottmar Trasca
Tillmann Vogel

Layout
Bettina Kubanek

Type design
Judith Miller

Translations
Toby Anne Axelrod
Uwe Heyser
Jake Schneider
Jane Yager

Editor
Birgit Kaiser

Project accounting
Niels van Wieringen

Exhibition construction
Torsten Spielhagen, Technische Universität Berlin

Legal advice
Teresa Book, Technische Universität Berlin

Videos
Sebastian Luhdo

 

Exhibition catalog

Editors
Frédéric Bonnesoeur
Christine Kausch
Thomas Lindner
Dr. Winfried Meyer
Julia Pietsch

Design
Bettina Kubanek

 

The exhibition was sponsored by