Date: Thursday, May 11, 2000 6:10 AM
Subject: FELLOWSHIP: Flight and Rescue, US Holocaust Museum


'Flight and Rescue' Fellowship for Foreign Affairs Practitioners, Human
Rights Professionals and Scholars
Fellowship Deadline: 2000-07-15

'Flight and Rescue' Fellowship for Foreign Affairs Practitioners, Human
Rights Professionals and Scholars
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies


The fellowship will provide an opportunity to study the role of foreign
affairs practitioners and/or human rights professionals in assisting
victims of genocide or crimes against humanity. The award will serve as a
vehicle to examine how international organizations, civil servants,
diplomats, human rights professionals, and others can act or fail to act to
rescue potential victims of genocide.  The proposed project should focus on
actual rescue attempts or failure to rescue by such institutions or
individuals during the Holocaust or in post-World War II genocidal crises.
Project proposals involving post-war genocides or crimes against humanity
should nonetheless refer back to Holocaust-based research and experience.

Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, the fellowship is designed to coincide with the
Museum's upcoming exhibit on "Flight and Rescue." This exhibit chronicles
the flight and survival of 2,100 Polish Jews who escaped from Lithuania in
the summer of 1940. These fortunate refugees traveled via the
Trans-Siberian Railroad to Vladivostok and Japan, thanks to visas issued by
Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara, and Jan Zwartendijk, Honorary Dutch
Consul, who were stationed in what is now Kovno. The exhibit describes the
fates of those who traveled on to other countries of safety, as well as the
approximately one thousand people who were subsequently deported to
Shanghai.

Eligibility

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies welcomes project proposals for
this fellowship opportunity from qualified applicants including members of
the diplomatic corps, international civil servants, professional staffers
of human rights NGOs, or scholars in a relevant academic field. Ph.D.
candidates preparing dissertations, post-doctoral researchers with recent
degrees, and senior scholars from accredited academic and research
institutions are also eligible to apply. U.S. citizenship is not a
requirement for this fellowship.

Application Procedure

The application should consist of five copies of the following documents:

* curriculum vitae
* research proposal not to exceed five pages (single-spaced). Applicants
must indicate the research resources and methodology they anticipate using
to conduct the proposed project
* specific plan for disseminating the results of the project
* three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to the Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies

Please send these materials to: The Visiting Fellows Division, Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100
Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126. Postmark deadline
for applying is July 15, 2000. The decision will be made by September 1.

The project may commence as early as January 2001, but not later than
September 30, 2001.


General Information

The 'Flight and Rescue' Fellow will have access to the Museum's library,
archival collections, oral histories and other resources as well as an
opportunity for research at other Washington, DC institutions.  Please
refer to the Museum's web site at www.ushmm.org for a description of the
Museum's archival holdings. As some of the Museum's collections are
available for research but not yet catalogued, specific inquiries regarding
the availability of certain types of documents can be directed to the
Museum's Reference Archivist at (202) 488-6113.

The Museum will provide office space, postage, access to a computer,
telephone, facsimile machine and photocopier. In addition, fellows are
expected to participate in the Center and Museum's broad array of scholarly
and other programs. Outreach opportunities will be developed at
universities, other academic institutions, and archives locally and
nationally. Cost sharing by home institutions or other relevant
organizations is encouraged to extend the residency of the applicant at the
Museum or to make possible additional research at other institutions in the
U.S. or abroad.

This fellowship is made possible by the Harry Rich Family Foundation.

Amount: Stipend of up to $4000 per month, plus round trip travel to
Washington, DC; total award from the Museum not to exceed $25,000.

Term: Semester to Academic Year




Contact information:
The Visiting Fellows Division
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
(202) 488-6585
Email:  [log in to unmask]

Fellowship website:
http://www.ushmm.org






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