Jewish Life in the Baltic States, 1917-1945, Kaunas

3. November 2025

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Vytautas Magnus University, and Sugihara Diplomats for Life Foundation invite applications for an international conference entitled "Jewish Life in the Baltic States, 1917-1945”, June 9-12, 2026, in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Applications are welcome from those who work in all relevant academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, film studies, history, Jewish studies, law, literature, material culture, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, and other fields.

The conference is a cooperations of the Mandel Center at the USHMM, the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union at Yad Vashem, the Museum “Jews in Latvia,” Vytautas Magnus University, Vilnius University, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Binghamton University, and the Leibniz Institute of Contemporary History in Munich.

Deadline for applications: December 1, 2025 | DETAILS

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