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
01.10.2025 20:09 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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
29.09.2025 15:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
18.09.2025 17:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
20.08.2025 16:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
HEFNUβs 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...
29.07.2025 17:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Apply Now!
HEFNU Regional Institute: Los Angeles
HEFNU and Loyola Marymount University are pleased to announce the Regional Institute βActs of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-survivor World.β
Details and application requirements can be found here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r...
30.06.2025 15:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 (ThursdayβSunday)
Chicago, Illinois
Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025
24.06.2025 15:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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
05.06.2025 15:10 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
We are pleased to announce this yearβs recipients of the HEFNU Sharon Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust.
More information about this yearβs recipients can be found on our website:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...
12.05.2025 16:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
07.05.2025 17:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Emerging Scholars Program (Online Only)
βAlternatives to Academia (βAlt-Acβ) in Holocaust Studiesβ
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
17.04.2025 18:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera"
Theodore βZevβ Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies featuring Jennifer V. Evans (Carleton University)
Tuesday, May 6, 5β7 PM
Harris Hall, Room 108
In-Person Only | Reception to Follow
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628149
08.04.2025 17:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
New Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
βThe Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creationβ (Online Roundtable)
Thursday, April 17, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)
Registration is required:
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628148
07.04.2025 18:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Opportunity of Interest (not a program of HEFNU)
Please join us this Thursday, March 20, as HEFNU director, Sarah Cushman, presents on βWomen in Auschwitzβ as part of the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust.
Online Only | Register Here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cfc3d2...
17.03.2025 15:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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
13.03.2025 14:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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...
05.03.2025 16:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Image advertizing Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight event, with headshots of Marion Kaplan, Bjorn Krondorfer, Na'ama Shik, and Helene Sinnreich
Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: "Gender and the Holocaust"
Tuesday, March 11 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST
Online Only | Registration Required
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/626479
Featuring Marion Kaplan, BjΓΆrn Krondorfer, Na'ama Shik, and Helen Sinnreich
17.02.2025 17:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Please join us this Thursday for our annual Winter Lecture, "The Intoxication of Killing," featuring Ed Westermann.
February 20 | 5-7 PM Central Time
In-Person only | Open to the Public | Reception to Follow.
hef.northwestern.edu/events/
17.02.2025 15:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust
In person talk by Anita Norich (Emeritus University of Michigan), an esteemed scholar of Yiddish literature who has published on topics such as the Holocaust in American Yiddish literature, translatin...
On 25 Feb at 6pm, my esteemed colleague Prof Anita Norich will give an in-person public talk in London at UCL on "Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust." Open to the public, but pre-registration required. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...
13.02.2025 16:01 β π 20 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
HEFNU is excited to co-sponsor this Online Roundtable Discussion: "Gendered Translations of the Holocaust." Please join us on February 13 at 12 PM Eastern Time.
More information here, including registration information, here: hef.northwestern.edu/events/
06.02.2025 16:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Holocaust Research Consultancy is a collective of scholars who have come together to deliver assistance to individuals, families, students, academics, and organizations for Holocaust research, education, and public engagement.
History PhD Student at Northwestern University
Uni Bielefeld & Missouri State Alum
https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/juedische-rache-nach-dem-holocaust
Assistant professor of history, author of Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024, U of Nebraska Press), historian of the Holocaust, modern Europe, and genocide. www.jacobflaws.com
Historian of Germany, particularly of colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad.
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
ποΈ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
Hier informieren wir ΓΌber aktuelle Rezensionen, Lesungen und sonstige Neuigkeiten. GefΓΌttert wird der Account von der Presseabteilung.
Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London. Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
German and Jewish history. Much else besides.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
Based in London and Berlin.
Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe.
Co-editor 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies.
Stand with Ukraine!
Historian, Postdoc & Lecturer of the Holocaust, Yiddish, East European & Jewish history @HebrewUniversity. Feminist, Firstgen, Zonenkind. π©π»βπππΉ
Historian of modern Germany. Colonialism. Religion. Games. Holocaust educator. Determined to save history. He/him/his. All views my own.
French and Francophone Studies, Jewish literature, memory studies, Holocaust, Rwanda, multilingualism - University of Aberdeen
Conflict archaeologist, historian, Holocaust heritage researcher, IHRA delegate, and Cambridge professor. All posts are my own and not necessarily institutional opinions.
https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/tutor/professor-gilly-carr
https://elizabethhyman.com/
Holocaust Historian, Public Historian, Archivist, Researcher, Writing Coach, and author of the upcoming Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto, Harper Perennial 2025. Blogs at: historicity-was-already-taken.tumblr.com.
Specialist in βdifficult historiesβ. Curator & consultant. Exhibits & educational initiatives in Europe, North America, India & Africa.
Projects with Musealia, Claims Conference, US Holocaust Museum, United Nations & UNESCO.
https://paulsalmons.associates/
PhD'ing | Anglo-Jewish Humanitarianism in World War Two and Postwar Europe | Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway | Author of https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/
Holocaust, Jewish, gender and queer History, genocide, feminism. Writing about βHomophobia in Nazi Concentration Campsβ. Educator and senior leader at secondary level in England. My views are my own.
Historian / PhD in Holocaust Studies / Assistant Professor & Head of the Center for Jewish Studies at University of ΕΓ³dΕΊ / Historical Atlas of the ΕΓ³dΕΊ Ghetto Project
