Holocaust survivor Ayana Touval was just a toddler when Nazi Germany and its allies invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941. Soon ...

Cleveland Community Program Find out how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is leveraging the power of social media ...

Irene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21, 1930, in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’, Ukraine) to Meyer and Leah Fogel. Meyer owned a lumber yard, and Leah managed their home and cared ...

“Between the Holocaust and the Cold War: U.S. Army War Crimes Investigations in the Soviet Zone of Germany, 1945-1947” Kevin Conley Ruffner received his A.B. in history at the College of William and ...

“A Global Microhistory of German-Jewish Refugees in Harbin: Integrating East Asian Refugee Communities into the History of the Holocaust.” Susanne Hillman was awarded a Broadening Academia Initiative ...

R. Chris Davis received his PhD in modern history (2013) and MSt in historical research (2006) from the University of Oxford, an MA in cultural studies (2004) from Jagiellonian University, Krakow ...

These photographs show that the Sobibor killing center was not entirely shrouded in secrecy. Guests were welcomed there, and local people came in to work and even socialize with the SS staff. In their ...

Konstantin Fuks is currently an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in history and Jewish studies (2024) from the University of Toronto (Canada). His dissertation monograph, “The Soviet Latvian War ...

Monika J. Flaschka received a Ph.D. in modern European history, a master’s degree in modern European history, and a master’s degree in biological anthropology from Kent State University; she earned a ...

Lauren Rossi was awarded a Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellowship for her research project, “Family Histories: Child Survivors and Memories of the Holocaust.” Her current project concerns ...

Among Johann Niemann’s possessions was a small photo album documenting a visit to Berlin in summer 1943 by killing center personnel. The trip was a reward from the T4 (“euthanasia” program for the ...

“Mountains and Mountaineering as a Theme in Jewish Lives in the Holocaust and Holocaust Memory” Alison Rose was awarded a Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellowship for her research project, ...