Doctoral Students
“Return Home: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna.” Graduated, 2016. Published as: The Compromise of Return: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021). Finalist, The Wiener Holocaust Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize.
Additional book publications:
Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, and Akim Jah, eds., The Camp System: A Primary Source Supplement Based on Documents from the International Tracing Service (Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2018).
Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, and Akim Jah, eds., Women under Nazi Persecution: A Primary Source Supplement Based on Documents from the International Tracing Service (Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2017).
Rebecca Boehling, Susanne Urban, Elizabeth Anthony, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming, eds., Freilegungen: Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen, Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service, Bd. 4 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015).
Current Position: Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center For Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.
“Gender and Agency: Women Rescuers and Perpetrators during the Genocide in Rwanda.” Graduated, 2016. Published as: Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Perpetrators and Rescuers (London: Routledge, 2018). (Routledge’s “Studies in Gender and Security” series.)
Current Position: Regional Director, San Diego; American Jewish Committee.
Beth Cohen, Ph.D.
“Case Closed”: Holocaust Survivors in America, 1946-1954.” Graduated, 2003. Published as: Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
Additional book publications:
Child Survivors of the Holocaust: the Youngest Remnant and the American Experience (Rutgers University Press, 2018). The Wiener Holocaust Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize Finalist.
Current Position: Director of Education, JFCS Holocaust Center, San Francisco, CA
“The Women of Birkenau: The Women’s Camp at Auschwitz -Birkenau.” Graduated, 2010. Under contract with Indiana University Press as Women in Auschwitz.
Additional book publications:
Co-editor with Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams, The Routledge Handbook of Auschwitz Birkenau (forthcoming, 2024)
Co-Editor, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History
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Current Position: Director, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University; Senior Lecturer in History, Northwestern University, Evanston IL.
Emily Dabney (ABD)
“Forced Labor in the Maghreb, 1940-1943.”
Current Position: Senior Administrative Assistant to the Assistant Vice President of Business and Information Technology, Advancement and Alumni Engagement, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Daan de Leeuw (ABD)
Working title: “The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942-1945.”
Research currently (2023-2024) supported by a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies, a Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Junior Fellowship, and a Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Grant.
Tiberiu Galis, Ph.D.
“Transitional Justice and Transition to a New Regime: Making Sense of Uncertain Times.” Graduated, 2015.
Publications:
Tibi Galis and Jack Mayerhofer, “Making ‘Never Again’ Reality. What Germany Can Contribute during Its Next Term in the Security Council toward Preventing Mass Atrocities,” FES Perspective, New York: FES, 2018, https://www.fesny.org/article/making-never-again-a-reality-1/.
Jack Mayerhofer and Tibi Galis, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70,” Macroscope, New York: FES, 2018, https://www.fesny.org/article/macroscope-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-at-70/ .
Kerry Whigham and Tibi Galis, “Empresas y derechos de los pueblose indigenas. Cerrando la caja de Pandora” in Moira Nkousi and Daniel Soto, eds. Gobierno corporativo y etica en los negocios. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, 2016.
Sheri Rosenberg, Tibi Galis and Alex Zucker, eds. Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Current Position: Executive Director, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, New York, U.S.; Oświęcim, Poland; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kampala, Uganda; and Bucharest, Romania.
“We Were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada.” Graduated, 2012. Published as: Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947 – 1955 (University of Manitoba Press, 2015). Winner: Western Canada Jewish Book Award. Holocaust Category. Inaugural award.
Current Position: Director, Holocaust Resource Center/Council on Global Education and Citizenship, Kean University, Union, NJ.
“Writing and Rewriting the History of the Kovno Ghetto.”
Research currently (2022-2023) supported by a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Naama Haviv (ABD)
Current Position: Vice President of Community Engagement at MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
“Fossoli di Carpi: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy.” Graduated, 2014. Published as: The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942 – 1952 (Palgrave Macmillan Italian Studies, 2016).
Additional book publications:
LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2024)
Darfur Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2020). Awarded the 2021 Outstanding Reference Source by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).
Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018).
Current Position: Lecturer, University of San Francisco; Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Founder, Cambodian Genocide Resource Group.
“Romanianization: Greed, Opportunism, Corruption, and Resistance in World War II Bucharest.” Graduated, 2013. Published as: Jewish Resistance to Romanianization, 1940 – 1944 (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in the History of Genocide, 2015).
Additional book publications:
Stefan Ionescu’s current book examining the restitution of Jewish property in post-Holocaust Romania (title TBD) is under contract with Cambridge University Press to be published in 2024.
Current Position: Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Visiting Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Jeffrey Koerber, Ph.D.
“Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and Their Response to Oppression and Genocide, 1933 – 1948.” Graduated, 2015. Published as: Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2020). Finalist, The Wiener Holocaust Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize.
Current Position: Associate Professor of Holocaust History, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Alexandra Kramen (ABD)
Working title: “Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald, 1945-1957.”
Book publication:
Atina Grossmann, Tamar Lewinsky, Avinoam Patt, and Alexandra Kramen (eds.), Jewish Displaced Persons after the Holocaust: Document Collection. Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures, Leipzig: Simon Dubnow Institute (in progress).
Research currently (2023-2024) supported by a Graduate Research Award, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University; and as the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust and the Jews, at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Natalya Lazar (ABD)
“Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust.”
Current Position: Program Director, Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine, at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM.
Beth Lilach (ABD)
“Aftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945-1957.”
Current Position: Executive Director, Konar Center for Jewish Studies and Tolerance, at Nazareth University, Rochester, NY
Abigail Miller (ABD)
“The Transmission of Holocaust Memory in Argentina: From the Refugee Survivors to the Generation of the Disappeared.”
Current Position: Chief Operating Officer, Breastfeeding for Busy Moms.
“Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917.” Graduated, 2016. Published as: The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021). Awarded Honorable Mention, 2021 Syrian Studies Association. Awarded the 2022 Aronian Book Prize by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research.
Additional book publications:
Hans-Lukas Kieser, Khatchig Mouradian, and Seyhan Bayraktar, eds., After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience (I.B. Tauris, 2023)
Hans-Lukas Kieser and Khatchig Mouradian, eds., The I.B.Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy (forthcoming in 2024).
Current Position: Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division (Near East Section) at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University; New York. Co-Principal Investigator, with Prof. Paul Boghossian (Chair, NYU Philosophy), of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Study, New York University.
Michael Nolte (ABD)
“Hadamar, 1933-1945.”
Current Position: Learning and Talent Management Systems Lead Continental Europe, Sodexo, Germany.
“The Nazification of Vienna and the Response of the Viennese Jews.” Graduated 2010. Awarded the Radomir Luza Prize. Published as: The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945: Rescue and Destruction (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in the History of Genocide, 2017).
Current Position: Teaching Professor, History Department, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Alicja Podbielska, Ph.D.
“A Tree for Poland: The Memory of Holocaust Rescue, 1942-2018.” Graduated 2021.
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
“The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon.” Graduated, 2003.
Book publications:
Exhibition Catalogues
(with Sandra Lipner, Dan Stone). Holocaust Letters. The Wiener Holocaust Library, 2023.
(with Dan Stone). Death Marches: Evidence and Memory. The Wiener Holocaust Library and Stephen Morris, 2021.
(with Dan Stone). Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust. Wiener Library and Createspace, 2018.
(with Barbara Warnock). A Bitter Road: Britain and the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s and 1940s. Wiener Library and Createspace, 2016.
Edited Volumes
Suzanne Bardgett, Christine Schmidt, and Dan Stone, eds., Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. (In preparation)
Suzanne Bardgett, Christine Schmidt, and Dan Stone, eds., Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference.Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, and Akim Jah, eds., The Camp System: A Primary Source Supplement Based on Documents from the International Tracing Service (Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2018).
Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, and Akim Jah, eds., Women under Nazi Persecution: A Primary Source Supplement Based on Documents from the International Tracing Service (Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2017).
Current Position: Deputy Director and Head of Research, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, England.
Raz Segal, Ph.D.
“Disintegration: Social Breakdown and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus.” Graduated, 2013. Published as: Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914 – 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2016).
Current Position: Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide. Director, Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ.
“Concealed Presence: Jewish Children in Nazi-Occupied Kraków.” Graduated, 2016. Published as Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Awarded The Wiener Holocaust Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize.
Additional book publications:
Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024).
Current Position: Historian and Fellowship Administrator, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), New York, NY.
Lotta Stone, Ph.D.
“Seeking Asylum: Jewish Refugees to South Africa 1930-1948.” Graduated, 2010.
Current Position: Historian and Research Associate, The Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, SC.