Cohort I – Academic year 2008-2009

Kim Wünschmann Ph.D.

“Jewish history, the Shoah and Germany’s Nazi past are fields of interest that have accompanied me for most of my…

History, Holocaust, Holocaust fellowship, Holocaust funding, Holocaust grant, Holocaust history, Holocaust research, Holocaust research funding, Holocaust research scholarship, Holocaust scholarship, Holocaust studies, PhD funding
Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin

Claims Conference Fellows come from, and are studying in, numerous countries. Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin, originally from Poland, is one of the…

ghettos, Holocaust denial, Poland, survivors, Yad Vashem, Yiddish
Waitman W. Beorn Ph.D.

Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is currently the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and assistant professor…
Eric C. Steinhart

Eric’s dissertation, tentatively titled “Creating Killers: The Nazification of the Black Sea Germans, 1941-1944,” probes the relationship between SS Volksdeutsche…

Christian groups, Claims Conference, European Languages, Holocaust fellowship, Holocaust funding, Holocaust research, Holocaust research funding, Holocaust research scholarship, Holocaust scholarship, Holocaust studies, PhD scholarship, Poland, Ukraine, Volksdeutsche
Isaac Hershkowitz

Mr. Hershkowitz writes, “My main area of research, rabbinic theological and sociological responses to the Shoah, has been reviewed (by…

Jewish studies, Rabbinic studies, Religion
Na’ama Shik Ph.D.

Na’ama studies the Jewish female experience in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In addition to her native Hebrew, she has full mastery of English…

Auschwitz, Women’s studies, Yad Vashem
Rebecca Carter-Chand

Rebecca Carter-Chand is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of History and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University…

Cohort I – Academic year 2008-2009

Kim Wünschmann Ph.D.

Sylwia Szymanska-Smolkin

Waitman W. Beorn Ph.D.

Eric C. Steinhart

Isaac Hershkowitz

Na’ama Shik Ph.D.

Rebecca Carter-Chand