Sarah Cramsey, PhD, presents "The Most Significant Spot in Europe: How the 'Ethnic Revolution' Came to Náchod, Czechoslovakia"

Between September 1945 and December 1946, nearly 130,000 Polish citizens of Jewish descent migrated through Czechoslovakia after failed attempts at repatriation to western Poland. Many migrants found financial, social, and humanitarian support from the Czech government, who supported their migration to their ethnic homelands of Palestine. The road to Palestine began for many Polish Jews at Náchod and their benefactors hailed, in part, from Czechoslovakia.

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