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 and research grants including a Fritz Halbers Fellowship Award from the Leo Baeck Institute, an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowship, a one-year DAAD research grant, and research awards from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Tauber Institute, and the Central European History Society. From 2023 to 2024, she was the Sosland Foundation Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Green’s dissertation, ‘Whatever happens, never reveal to anyone that you’re Jewish’: Identity Passing as a Jewish Response to Persecution during the Nazi Period, 1933-1945, examines the phenomenon of Jews ‘passing’ as ‘Aryan’ to escape Nazi persecution across Central Europe, starting in 1933 and continuing through the months following the end of World War II. Green scrutinizes the scale, migratory nature, and diversity of various ‘passing practices’ in the struggle for survival. Her research draws on a diverse collection of sources, underscoring critical themes such as movement, gender, luck, and the development of social networks. During her Kagan Fellowship, Ms. Green will complete her final archival research and continue writing her dissertation.