In this week of Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day we are publishing a new EHRI Document Blog that analyses a May 1949 interview between a UN official and Polish Holocaust survivor Jakub Leipzig conducted at the  Field Intake & Eligibility office in Milan. The interview was found in The Wiener Library's digital copy of the International Tracing Service Archive (ITS) in a section entitled "Relief Programs of Various Organizations: IRO Care and Maintenance Program". Readers are able to explore the places and dates mentioned in the interview using an  interactive map and timeline, as well as learning more about post-war Jewish displacement in Italy.

Europe had never seen so many refugees until that time. Between 1939 and 1945, around 30 million people were transplanted, expelled, and deported from their towns, villages, countrysides and cities. The blog also gives additional information about how Europe coped with the refugee and displaced person crises at that time.

This is the first blog post written by an EHRI visiting research fellow (The Wiener  Library), Chiara Renzo.

Read the Jakob Leipzig blog.