UW and U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum host AI and Holocaust Symposium
Faculty member Ben Lee discusses the impact of AI on Holocaust studies and a recent symposium discussing the use of these technologies in Holocaust research.
Roma Holocaust experience and relational memory
Professor Liora Halperin summarizes Ari Joskowicz's UW lecture (and research) into the Roma experience during the Holocaust. This includes touching on the role of relational memory.
A Turkish Jew in Nazi Germany: A family’s incredible story of survival, and a museum in a suitcase
While researching Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany, graduate fellow Joana Bürger uncovered the incredible story of a Sephardi-Catholic-German-Turkish family's survival during the Holocaust.
Matthew DesMarais receives the 2023 Paper Prize for Excellence in Holocaust Scholarship
Matthew DesMarais's award-winning paper focuses on Jews living in Nazi-controlled Germany, who applied for and received a U.S. refugee visa and then immigrated to the United States during World War II.
Maja Haderlap, Jewish writers, and telling the story of ethnic Slovenians in Austria using the “language of the enemy”
Like German-language Jewish writers, ethnic Slovenian author Maja Haderlap struggles with the language of the Nazis in telling the story of her community's persecution in Austria, writes graduate fellow Aaron Carpenter.
“Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust” lectures all available online
Video and audio recordings of all of the lectures from our 2020 series are now available online!
12/8 TALK | Holocaust Lecture Series Concluding Roundtable
Daniel Bessner, Hadar Khazzam-Horowitz, and Niko Switek conclude the ten-lecture series with this roundtable.
12/1 TALK | Genocide in Myanmar: The Case Before the International Court of Justice
Frederick Michael Lorenz will lecture on the case of the genocide in Myanmar before the International Court of Justice in this entry in the ten-lecture series.