Mihai Poliec

Mihai Poliec is a PhD Candidate in Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. In his doctoral dissertation, Civil Society’s Complicity during the Holocaust in Romania, he examines the participation of civilians in anti-Jewish violence in Bessarabia and Bukovina between July 1941 and August 1944. Poliec earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a Master’s in…

Ion Popa

Dr. Ion Popa successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2013 at the University of Manchester, UK, where he also received his M.A. in Religion and Political Life in 2009. Before starting his Saul Kagan Claims Conference Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Popa was a DRS Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität, Berlin (2015-2016) and a part-time lecturer…

Cohort IV – Academic year 2011-2012

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…

Cohort III – Academic year 2010-2011

Irena Cantorovich‘s dissertation on “Jews in the Mixed Detachments of the Partisan Movement in Lithuania, Belorussia and Ukraine (1941-1944)” is intended to shed new light on the Jewish life in Lithuania, Belorussia and Ukraine during the Holocaust. In her work, Ms. Cantorovich hopes to increase the understanding of the complicated relationship between Jews and gentiles…