Episode 21, Rebuilding Lives: Displaced Persons, Jewish Recovery, and Postwar Europe, Gast: Anna Holian

In this episode Philipp Strobl talks to the historian Anna Holian about her research on Displaced Persons in postwar Europe. They discuss how competing political systems shaped DP communities in occupied Germany, her project Setting Up Shop in the House of the Hangman on Jewish economic life after the Holocaust, and her work on postwar European cinema, including The Search and Europe’s War Children. The conversation also explores the role of cities like Munich in DP integration and the challenges of reconstructing everyday life from fragmented archives.