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ArgumentThis international conference will study the broad theme of the flight of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and their trajectories during the war and its aftermath from multiple perspectives.In recent years, the microhistorical turn in Holocaust history has placed increasing importance on individual practices and experiences by exploring new, nominative mass sources and combining a prosopographical approach with quantitative analysis of individual trajectories. As Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann state in the introduction to Microhistories of the Holocaust (2016): &#8220;Reducing the level of analysis increases knowledge, because smaller spaces can better elucidate the complexities of decision-making, help reestablish the &#8220;space of the possible&#8221;, show how reality was experienced at the individual level, and ultimately provide more compelling insights into the events that contemporaries faced in their day-to-day lives.&#8221; The micro-level of the individual and the family is a scale of observation that sheds light in a new way on the relationships between Jewish migrants and representatives of state authorities and places individual behaviour in the context of its social and political environment. It enables us to observe migrants in their networks and groups of belonging, trace their biographical and migratory trajectories and identify their agency, the means at their disposal and the opportunities or obstacles that the policy framework allowed them, so that we can identify their spaces of possibility and constraint.The conference is organised by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) / University of Luxembourg, the Institut d&#8217;histoire moderne et contemporaine, Ecole normale sup&#233;rieure, Paris (CNRS), the Institut f&#252;r Zeitgeschichte, M&#252;nchen and the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam (NIOD).Programme and registrationPDF versionWednesday, 24 January 2018Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neum&#252;nster, room Jos&#233; Ensch28, rue M&#252;nster, L-2160 Luxembourg19.00&#160;Opening Keynote by Dalia Ofer, Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The historian and his/her protagonistsRegister here for the opening keynoteThursday, 25 January 2018University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir2, avenue de l'Universit&#233; L-4365 Esch-sur-AlzetteRegister here for the conference in Belval8.45 Arrival at the Maison du Savoir9.00 Welcome to all participants by St&#233;phane Pallage, Rector of the University of Luxembourg9.10 Welcome address by Andreas Fickers, Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg.9.30 Introduction to the conference by Denis Scuto, Head of the Research Unit on Contemporary History of Luxembourg at Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg10.00 Keynote address by Claire Zalc (Institut d&#8217;histoire moderne et contemporaine, Ecole Normale Sup&#233;rieure, Paris) Le renouveau des sources dans l&#8217;&#233;tude de la Shoah et les perspectives microhistoriques10.30 Coffee break10.45-12.15 &#8211; Panel 1: Methods and sourcesModerator: Claire Zalc (Institut d&#8217;histoire moderne et contemporaine, Ecole Normale Sup&#233;rieure, Paris)Christiane Weber (International Tracing Service Arolsen) Individual paths reflected in ITS documents: The fates of displaced persons before and after the emigration to Canada&#201;ric Le Bourhis (Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Fondation pour la M&#233;moire de la Shoah, Paris) Loger les r&#233;fugi&#233;s juifs du Reich. Riga 1938-1941Antoine Burgard (Universit&#233; Lumi&#232;re Lyon 2) Reconstructing trajectories of survival and resettlement through Holocaust orphans&#8217; visa application files12.15 Lunch13.45-15.15 &#8211; Panel 2: Private law and flightModerator: David Fraser (University of Nottingham)Susanne Bennewitz (Hochschule f&#252;r J&#252;dische Studien, Heidelberg) Arranging a marriage for the way out. Marriage fraud and reacting policies in SwitzerlandGermaine Goetzinger (Centre national de litt&#233;rature, Luxembourg)&#8220;Mischehen&#8221; j&#252;discher Emigranten in LuxemburgDidier Boden (University Paris 1 Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne) Escape and marriage out of Nazi Germany: Individual destinies from a microhistorical perspective15.15&#160;Coffee break15.30-17.15&#8211; Panel 3: Private law and flightModerator: Frank Caestecker (Ghent University)Afke Berger (University of Amsterdam) Admitted | Rejected. A digital data analysis of Jewish requests for asylum in the Netherlands, 1938-1939Yaron Jean (University of Haifa and Sapir College, Negev) No way out: Passport hurdles and individual refugee experiences in pre-war Nazi GermanyDaniela Gleizer (National Autonomous University of Mexico) When diplomats&#8217; agency is used against refugees. The case of Mexican Consul Gilberto Bosques and the Jewish refugees in Marseille17.15-18.45 &#8211; Panel 4: Private law and flightModerator: Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Christine Kausch (Westf&#228;lische Wilhelms-Universit&#228;t, M&#252;nster) From individual to collective history: Jewish refugees in the Netherlands (1933-1945)Katharina Seehuber (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit&#228;t, M&#252;nchen) The Cahnmann family &#8211; Representative of possible emigration pathsGeraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Kunzel (Utrecht University) A foreign country: Concepts of collective and individual identity among German-Jewish refugees in the Netherlands18.45 Drinks reception20.00 Official conference dinnerFriday, 26 January 20189.00&#160;Keynote address by Frank Caestecker (Ghent University) State persecution and protection: the political determinants of the Jewish refugee flow (1933-1948)9.30-11.00 &#8211;&#160;Panel 5: In-between areasModerator: Susanne Heim (Institut f&#252;r Zeitgeschichte, M&#252;nchen &#8211; Berlin)Marion Kaplan (New York University) Lives in limbo: The daily lives and feelings of refugee communities in Portugal 1940-45Katharina Friedla (The International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) Expelled from Germany to Poland &#8211; Deported by Stalin to Siberia: Polish-Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union during the Second World WarMichal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Surviving (in) a stateless space. Refugee experience in the No Man&#8217;s Land11.00 Coffee break11.15-12.45 &#8211; Panel 6: The refugee question before the warModerator: Bob Moore (University of Sheffield)Baijayanti Roy (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) Pragmatism paves the way? A scholar&#8217;s adventurous exit from Nazi GermanyLudo Verbist (Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen) The fate of the Jews at the "Green Border"Ren&#233;e Wagener, Pour des raisons d&#8217;opportunit&#233;: une famille juive en qu&#234;te de refuge au Luxembourg face &#224; l&#8217;attitude de l&#8217;administration12.45 Lunch14.00&#160;Keynote address&#160;by Susanne Heim (Institut f&#252;r Zeitgeschichte M&#252;nchen - Berlin) &#214;konomie der Flucht. Enteignung, Erpressung und Gegenwehr14.30-16.00 &#8211;&#160;Panel 7: Escaping Europe during the warModerator: Denis Scuto (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg)Corry Guttstadt and Maria Vassilikou (Institut f&#252;r Zeitgeschichte M&#252;nchen-Berlin) A Perilous Way out of GreeceCatrina Langenegger (University of Basel) Refugees and the military in Switzerland 1942-1945 &#8211; the camps of the Territorial Service through the eyes of the commissioner for refugeesVincent Artuso (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (University of Luxembourg) Administrating chaos: Albert Nussbaum&#8217;s role in the organization of the escape route from Lisbon (August 1940-March 1942)16.00 Coffee break16.30-1800 &#8211;&#160;Panel 8: Returning after the warModerator: Vincent Artuso (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg)Wolfgang Schmitt-Koelzer (Emil-Frank Institut, Universit&#228;t Trier) Die NS Arbeitsverwaltung holt die Gefl&#252;chteten und Emigranten ein &#8211; Verfolgung, Zwangsarbeit und Entsch&#228;digung am Beispiel LuxemburgDonna Swarthout (CIEE Global Institute Berlin) Revoked and Restored: The German Jewish Citizenship ExperienceAngela Boone, German Jewish refugees in the Netherlands between 1945 and 195118.00 Closing remarks by Bob Moore (University of Sheffield/Lichtenberg-Kolleg, G&#246;ttingen)20.00 Optional informal dinner