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Publications
DonatePhD Dissertations
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Title | Type | Year |
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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 |
Wilson, Katherine |
Genocide Genres: Reading Atocity Testimonies. Diss. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
Wiedemann, Susanne |
Transnational Encounters with "Amerika": German Jewish Refugees' Identity Formation in Berlin and Shanghai, 1939--1949. Diss. Brown University, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
Van der Zanden, Christine E. |
The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon. Diss. Clark University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
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 |
Thomas, Christopher Campbell |
Compass, Square and Swastika: Freemasonry in the Third Reich. Diss. Texas A&M University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
Taubitz, Jan |
Holcaust Oral History und das lange Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft. Diss. Erfurt University, 2014. |
PhD Dissertation | 2014 |
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 |
Silver, Jacqueline |
Education of Jewish Children in Nazi Occupied Areas between 1933 - 1945. Diss. Fielding Graduate University, 2015. |
PhD Dissertation | 2015 |
Shewchuk, Sarah |
Silence and Voices: Family History and Memorialization in Intergenerational Holocaust Literature. Diss. University of Alberta (Canada), 2012. |
PhD Dissertation | 2012 |
Shenker, Noah |
Embodied Memory: The Formation of Archived Audiovisual Holocaust Testimony in the United States. Diss. University of Southern California, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
Shamrock, Jennifer Lynn |
Constructing Collaboration, Collaborative Constructions: A Holocaust Survivor, Her Interviewer, and Their Relationship. Diss. Arizona State University, 2003. |
PhD Dissertation | 2003 |
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 |
Segal, Raz |
Disintegration, Social Breakdown, and Political Mass Violence in Subcarpathian Rus'. Diss. Clark University, 2013. |
PhD Dissertation | 2013 |
Podveský, Petr |
Speech Recognition of Czech Using Finite-State Machines. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2006. |
PhD Dissertation | 2006 |
Pecina, Pavel |
Lexical Association Measures Collocation Extraction. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
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 |
Palosuo, Laura |
Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections: Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920-1945. Diss. Uppsala University, 2008. |
PhD Dissertation | 2008 |
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 |
Offenberger, Ilana F. |
The Nazification of Vienna and the response of the Viennese Jews. Diss. Clark University, 2010. |
PhD Dissertation | 2010 |
Miller, Ben |
Testimonial Media. Diss. Emory University, 2009. |
PhD Dissertation | 2009 |
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 |
Michaelis, Andree |
Erzählräume nach Auschwitz. Literarische und videographierte Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der Shoah. Diss. Freie Universität Berlin, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
Meade, Patrick J. |
"What Happened After": Meaning-Making in the Lives of Holocaust Survivors. Diss. New York University, 2011. |
PhD Dissertation | 2011 |
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 |
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 |
Lerner, Kátia |
Holocausto, memória e identidade social: a experiência da Fundação Shoah. Diss. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2004. |
PhD Dissertation | 2004 |
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 |
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 |
Klusáček, David |
New Methods in Statistical Speech Recognition. Diss. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 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.