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Paula Chan’s dissertation examines the Extraordinary State
Commission created by Stalin’s government to gather evidence of Nazi crimes
during World War II. These investigations generated an enormous amount of
material – more than 43,000 files – that remained off-limits even to Soviet
researchers until after the collapse of the USSR. In the years since, the
release of these documents has fueled the massive expansion of ...
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Kamil Kijek, Ph.D., graduated from
the University of Wroclaw, with a degree in Sociology and Jewish Studies.
He has been a
Prins Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New
York and Sosland Family Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington
DC. During his doctoral studies he held ...
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Lovro Kralj’s dissertation “Paving the Road to Death:
Antisemitism in the Ustasha Movement 1929-1945,” reinterprets the importance of
antisemitism in the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement. Given the fact that the
Ustasha ideological core was initially not antisemitic, questions as to why and
how they adopted antisemitism has not been adequately answered. Kralj
challenges historiographical interpretations which reduce the Ustasha
antisemitism to mere imitation of Nazism and ...
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