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Publications
DonatePhD Dissertations
| Author | Title |
Type |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aharony, Michal |
Total domination -- between conception and experience: Rethinking the Arendtian account through Holocaust testimonies. Diss. The New School, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
| Anderson Hughes, Jessica R. |
Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Auerbach, Karen |
A Window on Postwar Warsaw: The Jewish Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue. Diss. Brandeis Unversity, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
| Baer, Alejandro |
El testimonio audiovisual y la construcción de la memoria colectiva : la representación del Holocausto según el proyecto "Survivors of the Shoah Visual History". Diss. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
| Baker, Julia K. |
The Return of the Child Exile: Re-enactment of Childhood Trauma in Jewish Life-Writing and Documentary Film. Diss. University of Cincinnati, 2007. |
PhD Dissertation | 2007 |
| Beorn, Waitman Wade |
Descent into Darkness: The Local Participation of the Wehrmacht in the Holocaust in Belarus, 1941-2. Diss. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Caskey, Clifton |
Building Hitler's jets: Using Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies to Examine a Branch of the Nazi Armaments Industry. Diss. University of Houston, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
| Celinscak, Mark |
At War's End: Allied Forces at Bergen-Belsen. Diss. York University (Canada), 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Cohen, Beth B. |
Case closed: Holocaust survivors in America, 1946-1954. Diss. Clark University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
| Cohen, Daniel Maurice |
Historical Narratives in Tension: Holocaust Educators' Perceptions of Victimhood. Diss. Northwestern University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Crago-Schneider, Kierra |
Jewish "Shtetls" in Postwar Germany: An Analysis of Interactions among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans, and Americans between 1945 and 1957 in Bavaria. Diss. University of California, Los Angeles, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
| Cushman, Sarah M. |
The Women of Birkenau. Diss. Clark University, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
| Dunn, Rhonda Thayer |
Designing a Griotte for the Global Village: Increasing the Evidentiary Value of Oral Histories for use in Digital Libraries. Diss. Texas A&M University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Eppelsheimer, Natalie |
Homecomings and Homemakings: Stefanie Zweig and the Exile Experience in, Out of, and Nowhere in Africa. Diss. University of California, Irvine, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
| Flaschka, Monika |
Race, rape and gender in Nazi-occupied territories. Diss. Kent State University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
| Gerlind, Marion |
Off the Road: Remapping Shoah Representations from Perspectives of Ordinary Jewish Women. Diss. University of Minnesota, 2005. |
PhD Dissertation | 2005 |
| Goldberg, Adara Ruth R. |
We were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada. Clark University, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Gumbleton, Shawn |
Is brotherhood powerful? Male mutual assistance in the slave labor camp of Markstaedt. Diss. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
| Harris, Bonnie Mae |
From Zbaszyn to Manila: The Holocaust odyssey of Joseph Cysner and the Philippine rescue of refugee Jews. Diss. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
| Hollander, Ethan J. |
Swords or Shields?: Implementing and Subverting the Final Solution in Nazi-Occupied Europe. Diss. University of California, San Diego, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
| Houston, Jaye A. |
L'dor v'dor: Legacies, the Holocaust, female survivors, and the third generation. Diss. The Claremont Graduate University, 2005. |
PhD Dissertation | 2005 |
| Kaplan, Suzanne |
Children in the Holocaust. Diss. Stockholms Universitet, 2002. |
PhD Dissertation | 2002 |
| Kim, Jinmook |
Relevance Judgments and Query Reformulation by Users Interacting with a Speech Retrieval System. Diss. University of Maryland, College Park, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
| Lawley, Kathryn |
Information Seeking in Context: Teachers' Content Selection during Lesson Planning using the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive of Holocaust Survivor Testimonies. Diss. University of Maryland, College Park, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Lerner, Kátia |
Holocausto, memória e identidade social: a experiência da Fundação Shoah. Diss. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2004. |
PhD Dissertation | 2004 |
| McNiff, Kelsey Williams |
The French Internment Camp Le Vernet D'Ariège: Local Administration, Collaboration, and Public Opinion in Vichy France. Diss. Princeton University, 2004. |
PhD Dissertation | 2004 |
| Meade, Patrick J. |
"What Happened After": Meaning-Making in the Lives of Holocaust Survivors. Diss. New York University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Michaelis, Andree |
Erzählräume nach Auschwitz. Literarische und videographierte Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der Shoah. Diss. Freie Universität Berlin, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Michaels, Vera |
A Study of the Differences in the Narrative of Autobiographical Memories of Coordinate Bilingual Holocaust Survivors, When Told in Hungarian and English. Diss. New York University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
| Miller, Ben |
Testimonial Media. Diss. Emory University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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Publication Highlight
Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.
On October 10, 1941, the entire Jewish population of the Belarusian village of Krucha was rounded up and shot. While Nazi death squads routinely carried out mass executions on the Eastern Front, this particular atrocity was not the work of the SS but was committed by a regular German army unit acting on its own initiative. Marching into Darkness is a bone-chilling exposé of the ordinary footsoldiers who participated in the Final Solution on a daily basis.
Although scholars have exploded the myth that the Wehrmacht played no significant part in the Holocaust, a concrete picture of its involvement at the local level has been lacking. Among the crimes Waitman Wade Beorn unearths are forced labor, sexual violence, and graverobbing, though a few soldiers refused to participate and even helped Jews. By meticulously reconstructing the German army’s activities in Belarus in 1941, Marching into Darkness reveals in stark detail how the army willingly fulfilled its role as an agent of murder on a massive scale. Early efforts at improvised extermination progressively became much more methodical, with some army units going so far as to organize “Jew hunts.” Beorn also demonstrates how the Wehrmacht used the pretense of anti-partisan warfare as a subterfuge by reporting murdered Jews as partisans.