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Publications
DonatePhD Dissertations
| Author | Title | Type |
Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Thomas, Christopher Campbell |
Compass, Square and Swastika: Freemasonry in the Third Reich. Diss. Texas A&M University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| 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 |
| Cohen, Daniel Maurice |
Historical Narratives in Tension: Holocaust Educators' Perceptions of Victimhood. Diss. Northwestern University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
| Hes, Milan |
Didaktické aspekty historické paměti holocaustu. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Klusáček, David |
New Methods in Statistical Speech Recognition. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Goldberg, Adara Ruth R. |
We were Called Greenies: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Canada. Clark University, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Shewchuk, Sarah |
Silence and Voices: Family History and Memorialization in Intergenerational Holocaust Literature. Diss. University of Alberta (Canada), 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Decoster, Charlotte Marie-Cecile Marguerite |
Child Rescue as Survival Resistance: Hidden Children in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe. Diss. University of North Texas, 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| Celinscak, Mark |
At War's End: Allied Forces at Bergen-Belsen. Diss. York University (Canada), 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
| 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 |
| Segal, Raz |
Disintegration, Social Breakdown, and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus'. Diss. Clark University, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
| 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 |
| Patti, Chris J. |
Compassionate Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors: Cultivating Dialogue at the End of an Era. Diss. University of South Florida, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
| Wilson, Katherine |
Genocide Genres: Reading Atocity Testimonies. Diss. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
| Thompson, Ella Belzberg |
Both Sides of the Interface: Building an Education Interface for a Digital Video Archive with an Interprofessional Group. Diss. University of California Santa Barbara, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
| Cook, Peter D. |
Hermeneutic Narratives: An Exploration of Master Teachers' Values in Holocaust Education. Diss. The Claremont Graduate University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
| Herr, Alexis |
Fossoli di Carpi: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy. Diss. Clark University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
| 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 |
| Taubitz, Jan |
Holcaust Oral History und das lange Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft. Diss. Erfurt University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
| 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 |
| Silver, Jacqueline |
Education of Jewish Children in Nazi Occupied Areas between 1933 - 1945. Diss. Fielding Graduate University, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
| Gudgel, Mark R. |
A Mixed-Methods Study of the use of Film by American Secondary School Educators in Teaching about the Holocaust. Diss. Regent University, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
| Haas, Brandon J. |
IWitness and Student Empathy: Perspectives from USC Shoah Foundation Master Teachers. Diss. University of South Florida, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
| Koerber, Jeffrey P. |
Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and their Response to Oppression and Genocide, 1933-1948. Diss. Clark University, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
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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.