
Dallas Michelbacher is an Applied Researcher at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He earned a B.A. in history from Auburn University in 2011 and a Ph.D. in modern European history from Central Michigan University in 2016. He is the author of Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944 (Indiana University Press, 2020) and a contributor to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. His primary areas of research interest are the experiences of forced labor and prisoners of war, with a particular geographic emphasis on Romania. His current book project, which focuses on Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity, is tentatively titled Hitler’s Forgotten Victims: Soviet Prisoners of War in German Captivity, 1941-1945.