In this lecture, Daniela Gleizer will offer a comparative analysis of the reception of Holocaust survivors in Mexico and Argentina after the war. Latin America is often treated as a single, homogeneous entity, yet the experiences of these two countries were strikingly different. This lecture will use the comparison to challenge that assumption and to highlight the very distinct policies and responses within the region after 1945, a period less researched.

Daniela Gleizer is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a Ph.D. in history from El Colegio de México and has received several awards for her work. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Mexican state and foreigners, with an emphasis on immigration and naturalization policies. She is the author of Unwelcome Exiles: Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). She teaches graduate and postgraduate history courses at UNAM, is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers and the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, and is an affiliate researcher at University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.