Holocaust Educational Foundation

We have extended the Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grant deadline - APPLY NOW!
Deadline: Sunday, March 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)

More information here:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

We have extended the Summer Institute Application Deadline - APPLY NOW!
Deadline: Sunday, February 15 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)

More information here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...

Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026

Annual Winter Lecture
“The Nazi Transport of 440 Romani Women and Girls from Austria’s Burgenland in June 1939: A Microhistory”
Featuring Tiarra Maznick (Northwestern University)

More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638521

The Winter 2026 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...

HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues

"New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory"

Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 11 AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET

Registration is required:  northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

APPLY NOW!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2026, 11:59 PM PST

hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

HEFNU awards Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grants each year to support research related to the Holocaust.

APPLY NOW!
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Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization – Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University

Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026
Application Deadline: Sunday, February 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)

This Giving Tuesday, please consider giving a donation to the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU). HEFNU supports and advances Holocaust Research and Education at institutions of higher learning. Please donate today at: hef.northwestern.edu/support/.

HEFNU's inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference took place from 6-9 November 2025. HEFNU thanks the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University for co-sponsoring the Conference and hosting it in Worcester, MA, USA.

“Family and the Global History of the Holocaust,” Lecture & Lunch featuring Jan Láníček

Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/635430

Friday, November 21, 12-2 PM | Harris Hall, Room 108

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) is accepting proposals for Academic Year 2026-2027 Teaching Grants.

More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8 December 2025, 11:59 PM PST

Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues Series:
“Confinement, Deportation, and Transit”
Register here:
northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Please join us!
Tuesday, November 18
12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern Time, USA)
Online Only | Registration Required

Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture
"Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction"
Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/631594

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Comparative Approaches to Holocaust Geographies
Learn more here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632900

Wednesday, October 29, 12:00-1:00 PM (CST)
Online Only | Registration required

HEFNU is excited to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau, co-edited by HEFNU director Sarah M. Cushman along with Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams.

A purchase link for the book with a 20% discount is available here:

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Virtual Book Launch:
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT

Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

HEFNU’s 29th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held from June 22 to July 4, saw another wonderful cohort of Fellows. Learn more about our annual Summer Institute here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...

Apply Now!
HEFNU Regional Institute: Los Angeles

HEFNU and Loyola Marymount University are pleased to announce the Regional Institute “Acts of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-survivor World.”

Details and application requirements can be found here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r...

Call for Papers:

LESSONS & LEGACIES XVIII
HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities
International Conference on the Holocaust

hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...

12-15 November 2026 (Thursday–Sunday)
Chicago, Illinois

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025

The Summer 2025 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...

Featuring Monique Balbuena, Daniel Greene, Maja Kruse, and Alexandria N. Ruble

#hefnu #holocauststudies #holocausteducation #newsletter

On Tuesday, May 6, HEFNU hosted our annual Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies, “Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera.” Thank you, Jennifer Evans, for joining us at Northwestern!

We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the HEFNU Sharon Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust.

More information about this year’s recipients can be found on our website:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

HEFNU Series on Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues

What is Nazism? What is Fascism? (Online Roundtable)

Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)

Registration is required: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Emerging Scholars Program (Online Only)
“Alternatives to Academia (“Alt-Ac”) in Holocaust Studies”
Wednesday, May 14th, 11am-1pm EST
Featuring Dr. Susan Perlman (USHMM) and Dr. Ian Rich (Wiener Holocaust Library)

More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628795

"Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera"
Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies featuring Jennifer V. Evans (Carleton University)

Tuesday, May 6, 5–7 PM
Harris Hall, Room 108
In-Person Only | Reception to Follow

planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628149

New Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
“The Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creation” (Online Roundtable)
Thursday, April 17, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)

Registration is required:
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628148

Opportunity of Interest (not a program of HEFNU)

Please join us this Thursday, March 20, as HEFNU director, Sarah Cushman, presents on “Women in Auschwitz” as part of the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust.

Online Only | Register Here:

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cfc3d2...

Online Roundtable Discussion: "Postmemorial Constellations in Socialist and Postsocialist Holocaust Literature"

Thursday, April 3 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST | Online Only

Find more information, including the registration link, here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627246

HEFNU congratulates the recipients of our 2026-2026 Academic Year Teaching Grants. Teaching grants help faculty launch new courses related to the Holocaust or enhance institutional resources to reinforce such courses.

More information can be found here: hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...

On February 20, we hosted our annual Winter Lecture, “The Intoxication of Killing: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany.” We welcomed Ed Westermann, who explored how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant in the Holocaust.