Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust
What paradoxes arise when victims of related persecution tell their stories next to, and after, each other? This question is at the heart of...
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Scholars and witnesses present evidence documenting the mass atrocities that took place from 1933 through to the end of World War II in 1945, giving voice to the memories of the 6 million Je...
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20 of 50 episodesAddressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today
John A. Pérez, Regent Emeritus of the University of California, sits down with Robert Williams, Ph.D., CEO and Finci-Viterbi Executive Direc...
My Droplet of Fate Reflects the Jewish Ocean: The Legacy of Béla Pásztor
In the early 20th century, Budapest was the second-largest Jewish city in Europe, and Jewish artists and intellectuals played a major role i...
The Kindness of Strangers: Survival in Linz London and Shanghai
What does it take to survive persecution and exile? The story of Greta Taussig and Rudy Gans offers answers to this tantalizing question. Bo...
An Antisemitic Double-Murder: The Forgotten History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Postwar West Germany
On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead...
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII Mussolini and Hitler
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
Between 1918 and 1921, Ukrainian peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution murdered ove...
German Big Business and the Holocaust
Among the most striking exhibits at the Auschwitz museum are undoubtedly the mountains of loot stolen from Jews murdered upon arrival. Shoes...
What’s Fascism Got to Do With It? The Ideological Origins of the Holocaust
Twentieth-century fascism was a political ideology encompassing totalitarianism, state terrorism, imperialism, racism, and, in Germany’s cas...
Death and Survival in Holocaust Landscapes
How does the concept of space enhance our understanding of the Holocaust? In this talk, British historian Tim Cole tells the story of the Sh...
Hugo Marcus: A Muslim Jew Under the Swastika
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming o...
The Moral Triangle: Germans Israelis Palestinians with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
When the Second World War came to an end, Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, lay in ruins. Few contemporaries, if any, could have antic...
Franci’s War – with Helen Epstein - Holocaust Living History Workshop
Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts...
Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death with David Marwell - Holocaust Living History Workshop
Who was Josef Mengele? After the end of the Holocaust, the German physician has been increasingly viewed as the personification of supreme e...
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Reflections on Sexual Violence Agency and Sex Work with Anna Hajkova- Holocaust Living History Workshop
What is everyday life, and how is it experienced under extreme stress? This is the broader question that animates the research of Anna Hájko...
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko - Holocaust Living History Workshop
At the height of World War II, a team of Soviet scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to collect recently written songs dealing with the Ho...
Trauma Memory and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin - Holocaust Living History Workshop
As a child, Gabriella Karin was separated from her parents and placed in a Slovakian convent for three years. Although physically safe, she...
Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma with Amit Pinchevski - Holocaust Living History Workshop
In his new book, Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clini...
Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
Yale University professor and filmmaker Charles Musser explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of race relations in German and...
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil with Susan Neiman - Holocaust Living History Workshop
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil i...