USC Shoah Foundation Teaching Fellowships for Professor Gertrud Pickhan and Doctoral Student Alina Bothe
Professor Gertrud Pickhan and the doctoral student Alina Bothe, both from Freie Universität, were granted Teaching Fellowships from the USC Shoah Foundation to further develop a research seminar dealing with the deportation of Polish Jews from Berlin in 1938. In their course, they use the Visual History Archive, which contains eyewitness accounts and makes them available for research. Pickhan and Bothe are investigating facts about families who were affected by the so-called Polenaktion in Berlin from October 27 to 30, 1938. During those four days, between 1,500 and 6,000 people of Polish origin were deported from Berlin to the Polish border. ...
