Dr. Jeff Koerber is an Associate Professor in the history department at Chapman University, where he has been on the faculty since 2011. His teaching is centered on Holocaust history, but he also mentors undergraduate history majors writing their senior thesis projects, as well as teaches in Chapman University’s War, Diplomacy, and Society MA program. He holds a PhD in Holocaust History from Clark University, where his dissertation advisor was Debórah Dwork. During his Kagan Fellowship, he wrote his doctoral dissertation, “Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and Their Response to Oppression and Genocide, 1933–1948,” which analyzed the experiences of young Jews raised under the contrasting political orders of the Soviet Union and Second Polish Republic. This research was published in 2020 by Syracuse University Press under the title Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler.