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…
Category: Cohort XVI
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…
Lilia Tomchuk is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is a native speaker of Ukrainian and Russian and her research interests include the Holocaust in occupied Ukraine, gender and sexuality history, and the history of childhood. Currently, Tomchuk is working on her dissertation, “Shades of…
Michał Kowalski is a PhD Student at the University of Wrocław in Poland where he works on his doctoral dissertation, “Poisoned land. Life of the local Polish and Jewish communities in the shadow of the Treblinka I and Treblinka II camps.” Kowalski is a researcher, journalist, and lawyer. He has been involved mainly in investigative…
Justina Smalkyté is a PhD candidate at the Sciences Po Center for History in Paris where she is preparing a dissertation on anti-Nazi resistance movements in German-occupied Lithuania (1941-1944). She holds a double MA in European History from Université Paris Cité and Humboldt University of Berlin and a BA in History from Vilnius University. Her…
Alma Huselja is a PhD candidate in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Building a Fascist State: ‘Aryanization’ in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941—1945.” Huselja’s dissertation examines the campaigns of property expropriation and redistribution along racial lines as organized by the Ustaša leadership of the…
Nicolas Garraud is a PhD Student at the University of Oxford. His research explores the meaning and significance of humor and laughter in the everyday life of Jews living under Nazi occupation in the Warsaw ghetto. Garraud’s doctoral project relies on the extensive use of first-hand accounts of victims of Nazi policies of discrimination and…
Daan de Leeuw is a PhD Candidate in History at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. His dissertation “The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942-1945,” supervised by Prof. Debórah Dwork, investigates the trajectories of Dutch Jewish slave laborers through German concentration and annihilation camps. Drawing…
Dr. Allison Somogyi’s doctoral research analyzed the survival and resistance tactics employed by young Jewish women in Budapest under Arrow Cross rule and Nazi occupation and traced, through their diaries, how they navigated the fraught space available to them in the chaotic months of Nazi occupation and during the siege of Budapest. Her postdoctoral project…