February 26, 2026 • 4:20 pm
Hailed by The New Yorker as “among the most compelling documents to come out of the war,” From Day to Day is a World War II concentration camp diary — one of only a handful ever translated into English — secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian. This inspiring...
January 27, 2026 • 8:51 am
Luke Barber interviews Martin Herskovitz. Herskovitz, from Rehovot, Israel, is a child of Holocaust survivors. He is a public fellow at Finkler Institute for Holocaust Studies Bar Ilan University and a poet. Via his poetry and his endeavor “Creating...
January 27, 2026 • 8:49 am
Luke Barber interviews Michael Berkowicz. Born in Siberia during World War II, Berkowicz’s family returned to Poland after the war to find their lives would be forever altered. Having fled the country before the Nazi invasion in 1939, Berkowicz’s father...
January 27, 2026 • 8:38 am
Luke Barber interviews Dr. Peter Petschauer. Over the years, Dr. Petschauer has used his personal story to help provide insight into perpetrators of genocide. He has lectured alongside child survivor of the Holocaust Dr. Zohara Boyd in order to provide a unique...
January 5, 2026 • 4:03 pm
Dr. Gerhard Weinberg, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presents “Adolf Hitler and the United States: Views, Plans, and Policies and the ‘Jewish Question.’” Dr. Weinberg, now in his early 90s, is not only an eminent...
January 5, 2026 • 4:02 pm
Dr. Anna Shternshis of the University of Toronto presents “Last Yiddish Heroes: Lost and Found Songs of Soviet Jews During World War Two,” including a performance of a selection of the songs by Appalachian State University student vocalist Sydra...
January 5, 2026 • 4:01 pm
Dr. Noah Shenker on “The Future of Holocaust Testimony.”
January 5, 2026 • 4:00 pm
Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum presents “Gender, Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany.”
January 5, 2026 • 3:59 pm
The Center opened the year’s Yom HaShoah commemorations with a talk by Eliot Nidam, the Head of the Academic Affairs Section of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Nidam’s talk is entitled “Living with the...
January 5, 2026 • 3:58 pm
Dr. Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and is Chair of the Department of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University (AU). A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s...
January 5, 2026 • 3:57 pm
The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies Professor Guy Miron, one of Israel’s most prominent Holocaust scholars of the generation that followed the field’s founding cohort of Dan Michman, Yehuda Bauer and the late Israel Gutman. Guy Miron is...
January 5, 2026 • 3:56 pm
Dr. Dan Michman, of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Israel, presents “Holocaust Research Since 1990: Contemporary Contexts and Their Impact on the Comprehension of the Event.” Dr. Michman is the head of the International Institute for Holocaust...
January 5, 2026 • 3:55 pm
Dr. Thomas Kühne presents “The Murderers Are Among Us.” Dr. Kühne is an award-winning prolific scholar of German, Holocaust, Military, and Gender Studies. His essay collection on the history of masculinities in modern Germany, Men’s History—Gender History,...
January 5, 2026 • 3:54 pm
On Thursday, April 19, historian Dr. Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at UNC-Chapel Hill, have an evening lecture entitled “Broken Lives: How Ordinary German Jews and Gentiles Experienced the Twentieth Century.”
January 5, 2026 • 3:54 pm
This video is a recording of the lecture by Dr. P. Heberer Rice, the Senior Historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Heberer Rice, an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar with...
