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Publications
DonatePhD Dissertations
Author | Title | Type |
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Kaplan, Suzanne |
Children in the Holocaust. Diss. Stockholms Universitet, 2002. |
PhD Dissertation | 2002 |
Shamrock, Jennifer Lynn |
Constructing Collaboration, Collaborative Constructions: A Holocaust Survivor, Her Interviewer, and Their Relationship. Diss. Arizona State University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
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 |
Van der Zanden, Christine E. |
The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon. Diss. Clark University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
Cohen, Beth B. |
Case closed: Holocaust survivors in America, 1946-1954. Diss. Clark University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
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 |
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 |
Gerlind, Marion |
Off the Road: Remapping Shoah Representations from Perspectives of Ordinary Jewish Women. Diss. University of Minnesota, 2005. |
PhD Dissertation | 2005 |
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 |
Podveský, Petr |
Speech Recognition of Czech Using Finite-State Machines. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
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 |
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 |
Wiedemann, Susanne |
Transnational Encounters with "Amerika": German Jewish Refugees' Identity Formation in Berlin and Shanghai, 1939--1949. Diss. Brown University, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
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 |
Olsson, James Scott |
Combining evidence from unconstrained spoken term frequency estimation for improved speech retrieval. Diss. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
Palosuo, Laura |
Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections: Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920-1945. Diss. Uppsala University, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
Pecina, Pavel |
Lexical Association Measures Collocation Extraction. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
Wolfson, Leah A. |
A Path through the Abyss: Re-inventing Testimony through Post-Holocaust Survivor Poetry, Memoir, and Video Oral Histories. Diss. Emory University, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
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 |
Aharony, Michal |
Total domination -- between conception and experience: Rethinking the Arendtian account through Holocaust testimonies. Diss. The New School, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Auerbach, Karen |
A Window on Postwar Warsaw: The Jewish Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue. Diss. Brandeis Unversity, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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 |
Shenker, Noah |
Embodied Memory: The Formation of Archived Audiovisual Holocaust Testimony in the United States. Diss. University of Southern California, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Spinney, Russell A. |
A Nation in Peril? Rethinking How Fear Influenced Everyday Life and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Diss. The Pennsylvania State University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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 |
Miller, Ben |
Testimonial Media. Diss. Emory University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Flaschka, Monika |
Race, rape and gender in Nazi-occupied territories. Diss. Kent State University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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 |
Cushman, Sarah M. |
The Women of Birkenau. Diss. Clark University, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
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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.