Cohort II Richards Plavnieks is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his dissertation, titled “Wall of blood: The Baltic German case study in National Socialist wartime population policy, 1939-1945,” under the supervision of Professor Christopher Browning. Using German-, Russian-, English-, and Latvian-language…
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Stefan Ionescu, PhD completed his dissertation on the process of Romanianization – property seizure and exclusion from employment – in the city of Bucharest during the Antonescu Regime (1940-1944), focusing on the responses of local Jews and gentiles. His work has been published in Studia Politica, Culture and Psychology, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of History and…
Kierra Crago-Schneider, PhD studied the day-to-day interactions among Jewish survivors (mainly those living in Displaced Persons centers), Germans, and American soldiers in postwar Munich specifically through their involvement with the postwar German economy. Her dissertation title is “Jewish ‘Shtetls’ in Postwar Germany: An Analysis of Interactions Among Jewish Displaced Persons, Germans, and Americans Between 1945 and…