Cohort VI is our first cohort with both Ph.D. and Postdoctoral candidates. Istvan Pal Adam, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Bristol, UK A native Hungarian, Mr. Adam’s research incorporates files of a post-war denazifying process, testimonies, autobiographical sources and contemporary journals to show how an otherwise insignificant group of ordinary Hungarians became intermediaries between…
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Program Background The Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies is an international program that supports Ph.D. and Post-doctoral students focusing on Holocaust research. The Kagan Fellowship program funds research and writing, allowing scholars to travel to Holocaust-related archives, many of which have not been closely examined by other researchers. Originally named The Shoah…
The application process is through the Fluxx portal system (see previous page for link to application process) and all the instructions as to how to complete and upload documents are there. You will need to upload into Fluxx: – General information – An academic resume/CV (no more than two pages) – A two-paragraph abstract, followed…
Professor David Cesarani – Royal Holloway, University of London Dr. David Silberklang – Yad Vashem Fellows in the Media Cohort V Fellow Laura Brade awarded Fulbright: The Daily Tar Heel 4/2/12 Cohort V Fellow Robert Braun’s blog Cohort III Fellow Ella Florsheim discussed Yiddish Culture at Hebrew University in 2009 Cohort III Fellow Erin Leib…
Meet the Fellows… Susanne Barth, Ph.D. candidate, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg, Germany Ms. Barth is working on a dissertation project called “The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG and the Auschwitz Subcamp of Blechhammer, 1939-1945.” Blechhammer was a large complex of labour camps belonging to the synfuel plant Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG, established in 1939-1940 in Upper Silesia. Nearly 50,000…
Cohort I Eric’s dissertation, tentatively titled “Creating Killers: The Nazification of the Black Sea Germans, 1941-1944,” probes the relationship between SS Volksdeutsche policy and the prominent role of Soviet ethnic Germans in the Holocaust in southern Ukraine. In addition to his native English, he is fluent in German and has a command of Russian and…
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Claims Conference Kagan Fellowships are available for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates around the world conducting Holocaust-related research. Each year, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) offers fellowships for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates around the world conducting newly uncovered archival Holocaust research. Through the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the…