PhD Candidate in History at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Laurien Vastenhout has eared an MA Degree in Holocaust and Genocide studies (2014) and an MPhil in History (2015), both at the University of Amsterdam. Recently, she co-lectured a Comparative Genocide Studies MA course at the same University (2017). Her dissertation examines the functioning…
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Ph. D Candidate, History, Universities of Florence and Siena (Italy) Chiara Renzo’s dissertation focuses on Jewish displacement in Italy after War World II. Her research aims at tracing the history of non-Italian Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who, between 1943 and 1951, found a temporary refuge in Italy. Ms. Renzo is investigating the life conditions of Jewish DPs in refugee…
PhD candidate, University of Ottawa Marie-Dominique Asselin’s PhD project aims to look at the fate of the Polish Jews at the time of the Holocaust, as seen through the prism of court records. The research will seek answers to the various questions related to everyday Jewish life and death in the ghettos, as well as to…
Tomasz Frydel examines what has been called by historians as the “third phase” of the Holocaust, namely the attempt by the Germans to destroy the remaining Polish Jews to survive Operation Reinhard in the General Government. These desperate fugitives fled ghettos and jumped off trains headed for death camps as they sought shelter among peasants…
Ph.D. candidate, Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and Free University Berlin Markus Nesselrodt’s dissertation examines individual experiences of Polish Jews who survived Nazi persecution during World War II by flight or deportation to the interior of the Soviet Union. The history of more than 230,000 Polish Jews in wartime exile in the Soviet Union has…
Mihai Poliec is a PhD Candidate in Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In his doctoral dissertation, Civil Society’s Complicity during the Holocaust in Romania, he examines the participation of civilians in anti-Jewish violence in Bessarabia and Bukovina between July 1941 and August 1944. Poliec earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in…
Elisabeth Pönisch, PhD Candidate, Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany In her interdisciplinary study, Elisabeth Pönisch examines the enforced “relocation” to and life in the so-called “Jews’ houses”, which were established in the course of the “Law on Tenancies with Jews” in 1939. The residents experienced the life in the “Jews’ Houses” as a…
Dr. Ion Popa successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2013 at the University of Manchester, UK, where he also received his M.A. in Religion and Political Life in 2009. Before starting his Saul Kagan Claims Conference Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Popa was a DRS Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität, Berlin (2015-2016) and a part-time lecturer…
Stacy Veeder, PhD Candidate- History and Genocide Studies, University of New York at Albany Stacy Veeder’s dissertation project, The Republican Race: Assimilation, Persecution and Race in France, 1933-1945, focuses on ideas of integration and assimilation within French national life during the interwar period and the Second World War as those ideas underwent radical reconstructions. Crucial to…
Dr. Sofija Grandakovska holds a doctorate degree in Comparative Literature, obtained from the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski”, SS Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia, and actively engages in the fields of Cultural, Jewish and Holocaust Studies. In 2014 she was recognized as Associate Professor and from 2009-2013 she held…