On 10-11 September 2025, I traveled to the House of the Wannsee Conference in Germany to present at a researchers workshop organised by the Yad Vashem Diana and Eli Zborowski Center for the Study of the Aftermath of the Holocaust and the House of the Wannsee Conference.

Focused on Holocaust Survivor “Diasporas”, this research workshop explored the arrival of survivors to Jewish communities and their involvement in the rebuilding, creation, or expansion of these communities after the Second World War.

My paper: ‘I certainly didn’t feel I was Hungarian, I was a stinking bloody Jew’: Finding Belonging in Post-War Hungary

With these words, Holocaust survivor Nandor Fenjo explained why he joined the Zionist youth movement in Hungary after the Second World War. This paper explored how returning survivors in Hungary made the difficult choices on who to identify with and where to rebuild their lives, paying particular attention to the rise in popularity of the Zionist youth movements.