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Publications
DonatePhD Dissertations
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Type | Year |
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Cook, Peter D. |
Hermeneutic Narratives: An Exploration of Master Teachers' Values in Holocaust Education. Diss. The Claremont Graduate University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
Cohen, Daniel Maurice |
Historical Narratives in Tension: Holocaust Educators' Perceptions of Victimhood. Diss. Northwestern University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
Taubitz, Jan |
Holcaust Oral History und das lange Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft. Diss. Erfurt University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
Lerner, Kátia |
Holocausto, memória e identidade social: a experiência da Fundação Shoah. Diss. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2004. |
PhD Dissertation | 2004 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Haas, Brandon J. |
IWitness and Student Empathy: Perspectives from USC Shoah Foundation Master Teachers. Diss. University of South Florida, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
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 |
Pecina, Pavel |
Lexical Association Measures Collocation Extraction. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
Burgerová, Lenka |
Mezi asimilací a emigrací. Sociálně-ekonomický pohyb v židovské komunitě v Teplicích 1938-1960. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
Sekalala, Seif |
Narratives & Discourses of Rwandan Former Refugees & Genocide Survivors in the USC-Shoah Archive & Western (US, UK, Italy, Canada) Newspapers. Diss. Drexel University, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
Klusáček, David |
New Methods in Statistical Speech Recognition. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
Gerlind, Marion |
Off the Road: Remapping Shoah Representations from Perspectives of Ordinary Jewish Women. Diss. University of Minnesota, 2005. |
PhD Dissertation | 2005 |
Marlow, Jennifer Lynn |
Polish Catholic Maids and Nannies: Female Aid and the Domestic Realm in Nazi-Occupied Poland. Diss. Michigan State University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
Flaschka, Monika |
Race, rape and gender in Nazi-occupied territories. Diss. Kent State University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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 |
Shewchuk, Sarah |
Silence and Voices: Family History and Memorialization in Intergenerational Holocaust Literature. Diss. University of Alberta (Canada), 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
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 |
Miller, Ben |
Testimonial Media. Diss. Emory University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Fox, Glenn R. |
The Brain's Virtuous Cycle: An Investigation of Gratitude and Good Human Contact. Diss. University of Southern California, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
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 |
Offenberger, Ilana F. |
The Nazification of Vienna and the response of the Viennese Jews. Diss. Clark University, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
Van der Zanden, Christine E. |
The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon. Diss. Clark University, 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 |
Cushman, Sarah M. |
The Women of Birkenau. Diss. Clark University, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
Aharony, Michal |
Total domination -- between conception and experience: Rethinking the Arendtian account through Holocaust testimonies. Diss. The New School, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Wiedemann, Susanne |
Transnational Encounters with "Amerika": German Jewish Refugees' Identity Formation in Berlin and Shanghai, 1939--1949. Diss. Brown University, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
Goldberg, Adara Ruth R. |
We were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada. Clark University, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
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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.