The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, in the framework of the Simon Wiesenthal Lectures will stage a presentation by Atina Grossmann titled A Lost Holocaust Story: Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Union and Iran during World War II. The lecture will take place at the rooftop foyer of the Hof- und Staatsarchivs, at Minoritenplatz 1, 1010 Wien from 18:30 to 20:00, on Thursday, June 13, 2013.

The lecture tells the story of some 250,000 Jews who survived because they had been “deported to life” from parts of Poland that came under Soviet control after the Nazi-Soviet Pact. They were first sent to forced labor camps in Siberia and then, after the German invasion in June 1941, in Central Asia.

Atina Grossmann is Professor of History at the Cooper Union in New York City.

For more details see the attached invitation for the lecture or visit the website of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.