Alex Scheepens is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his BA in International Relations and History in 2014, and his MA in European Studies in 2016 and his MA in European Studies in 2016, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed another MA in History…
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Katarzyna Winiarska is a PhD candidate in the field of sociological sciences at the Doctoral School of Social Science at the University of Warsaw. She received multiple awards for her public history activities. The subject of her dissertation, The history of the Jews in Białowieża – between historical reality and social memory, arises from her…
Karolina Panz, PhD, is a sociologist and a member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research. Her research interests are Jewish life and the Holocaust in the Polish province, with a special focus on the microhistory of Jews and the history of Polish–Jewish relations in the Podhale region, where she lives and volunteers in the…
Ayelet Eva Herbst is a PhD candidate at Ludwig Maximilian University in the Institute of Eastern and Southeastern European History. She studied Holocaust, Communication, and Tolerance at Touro University Berlin and graduated in 2018. She wrote her Master’s thesis on Jewish refugee movements to Eastern Ukraine during the Second World War. She is a former…
Hana Green is PhD candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in History from the University of Florida and an MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Haifa. In addition to her academic work, Green has been a contributor to the Jewish Women’s Archive’s…
Maria Ferenc received her PhD from the University of Warsaw. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Wrocław and is working on a book discussing the biography and memory of Mordechai Anielewicz. Ferenc has received various fellowships, including from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United…
Péter Buchmüller is a PhD candidate in History at Central European University. The tentative title of his dissertation is Jews in the Bar Association – Inclusion and Exclusion from the Legal Profession in Budapest (1867-1945). Buchmüller received an M.A. in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University, and an M.A. in History with a Jewish Studies specialization…
Maayan Armelin earned her PhD from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds an MA in Social Psychology from the University of Haifa. Armelin studies the SS-Einsatzgruppen, mobile paramilitary units that perpetrated mass executions of Jews and non-Jews in the USSR between 1941 and 1944. By integrating historical perspectives…
Na’ama Seri-Levi holds a PhD in Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her dissertation, which was written under the supervision of Prof. Yfaat Weiss and Prof. Eli Lederhendler, deals with Polish- Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union during World War II and focuses on the refugees’ networks and their connections…
Dr. Marie Moutier-Bitan graduated from the Sorbonne and EHESS. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at CERCEC as part of the Visual History of the Holocaust project. She is a historian specialized in the Holocaust in the occupied Soviet Union. For more than 10 years she worked as a researcher in the Yahad-In Unum…