Lovro Kralj’s dissertation “Paving the Road to Death: Antisemitism in the Ustasha Movement 1929-1945,” reinterprets the importance of antisemitism in the Croatian fascist Ustasha movement. Given the fact that the Ustasha ideological core was initially not antisemitic, questions as to why and how they adopted antisemitism has not been adequately answered. Kralj challenges historiographical interpretations…
Category: Cohort XII
Kamil Kijek, Ph.D., graduated from the University of Wroclaw, with a degree in Sociology and Jewish Studies. He has been a Prins Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York and Sosland Family Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States…
Paula Chan’s dissertation examines the Extraordinary State Commission created by Stalin’s government to gather evidence of Nazi crimes during World War II. These investigations generated an enormous amount of material – more than 43,000 files – that remained off-limits even to Soviet researchers until after the collapse of the USSR. In the years since, the…