Based on the international conference on refugees in Evian in 1938 the participants deal with four core questions:
Period postcard of Evian-les-Bains, the site of the 1938 International Conference on Refugees.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Martin Smith.
US-american representative Myron Taylor addresses the International Conference on Refugees at Evian-les-Bains, July 1938.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park.
Pointing at the Evian conference as an example for the failure to solve the Jewish refugees’ crisis of the 1930s by international diplomatic means.
Understanding the international obligation to help refugees in crisis both in the 1930s and today.
To discuss the continuity of questions regarding refugee crises.
90 minutes
Stage 1: 20 min
Stage 2: 55 min (introduction 5 min, Re-Enactment 45 min, closing remarks 5 min)
Stage 3: 15 min