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 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. His teaching and research interests range from topics in modern European Jewish history and the Holocaust to the history of antisemitism, Zionism, and the State of Israel.
Scheepens’s dissertation, supervised by Professors Kathryn Ciancia and Tony Michels, addresses an understudied aspect of Dutch Holocaust ...
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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 fellow of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk, and a recipient of the Conny Kristel Fellowship and a residency of the Institute for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv. Her research interests focus on the Holocaust in Ukraine and Jewish migration during the Second World War and the Holocaust, ...
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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 Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, a volunteer transcriptionist for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum’s Oral History Project, and served on the organizational team for the 26th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites which was held in Łódź, Poland in 2023. Green has been awarded multiple fellowships ...
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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 People not Numbers Project.
Her dissertation, which concerned the fate of Nowy Targ Jews before and during the Holocaust, was awarded the first prize in the Majer Balaban Competition for the best MA and PhD works on Jews and Israel held by the Jewish Historical Institute (2020) and received the first ...
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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 long-standing activities in Białowieża to restore the memory of the Jewish community living there. Among other things, Winiarska created the Virtual Museum of Jewish History in Białowieża (www.jewish-bialowieza.pl), erected a monument to Holocaust victims, conducts popularizing activities in the local Białowieża community, and builds relationships with descendants of Białowieża Jews.
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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 with paradigms, as well as social and psychological findings, she investigates how professional compositions and operational structures shaped the units’ vertical and horizontal social relations, and enhanced perpetration. Her postdoctoral project expands the perspectives on the Einsatzgruppen by looking into how victims, bystanders, and Austrian unit members (rather than Germans born ...
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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 States Holocaust Museum (2022), Fondation Memoire de la Shoah (2020-2022), and Yad Vashem (2016).
Ferenc coordinated the research project The Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto at the Jewish Historical Institute (2018-2024) and co-edited several volumes of documents at the Ringelblum Archive. Her book, based on her doctoral dissertation, “Everyone asks what will ...
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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 from Central European University. As an Open Society University Network Global Teaching Fellow in the 2023-2024 academic year, Buchmüller taught two courses on the history of Jews in Central Europe at Eötvös Loránd University.
Buchmüller’s dissertation examines the history of Jewish lawyers in Hungary, the presence of antisemitism within the profession, ...
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