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The Holocaust History Podcast features engaging conversations with a diverse group of guests on all elements of the Holocaust. Whether you are new to the topic or come with prior knowledge, you will learn something new.
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Ep. 84- The French Catholic Church and the Holocaust with Aliza Luft
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Many historians have sought to tell the story of the Catholic Church and its behavior during the Holocaust and explain its responses. They have approached it from a variety
Ep. 83- A Family History of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia with Julie Brill
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) We often hear on this podcast about how historians have sought to recover the past but what is it like trying to do this when you are not a professional? In this episode, I
Ep. 82- Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto with Elizabeth Hyman
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) In Holocaust history much like history in general, women's voices and experiences have often been overlooked or ignored. In this episode, I talk with an author who has focus
Ep. 81- Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums with Julie Golding
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) HAve you encountered material on the Holocaust that you find disturbing or upsetting? Was it in your reading or at a Holocaust site or museum? In this episode, I talk with J
Ep. 80- Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust with Laura Jockusch
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Even as the Holocaust was ongoing, some Jews dreamed of and sought revenge for Nazi attacks on them. Ironically, the Nazis themselves believed in a particularly antisemitic
Ep. 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) There are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this. The truth is that various
Ep. 78- Polish Mayors and the Holocaust with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Holocaust was a Nazi project, but it required the support, cooperation, complicity, and sometimes collaboration of a wide variety of non-Germans to carry out. This compl
Ep. 77- The Clemency and Paroling of Nazi War Criminals with Robert Hutchinson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Nuremberg trials, though not perfect, represented in many ways an epic achievement in justice for crimes against humanity. However, a darker and lesser-known element of
Ep. 76- The Janowska camp with Waitman Wade Beorn and special guest host Doris Bergen
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Janowska concentration camp may well be the most important Holocaust place most people have never heard of. It was central to the Holocaust in eastern Poland, was the sc
Ep. 75- Guilt and the Postwar Lives of Nazi Perpetrators with Katherina von Kellenbach
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) How did Nazi war criminals engage with (or deny) their giult? How was the prosecution and conviction of Nazi perpetrators dealt with in families? What was the role of religi
Ep. 74- The Global History of Concentration Camps witih Andrea Pitzer
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) What is a concentration camp? What are the distinguishing features of these spaces? Where did they come from? In this episode, I talk with Andrea Pitzer about the long, glob
Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history). Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar lif
Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) How do we approach witnessing the Holocaust? Are there appropriate or inappropriate ways to do this? Does witnessing make us more empathetic or more indifferent? These are j
Ep. 71- Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project. For a very long time, queer victims h
Ep. 70- Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men? What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past? How did gender play a role in s
Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) How could one be a man of God in Nazi Germany? And, especially, how can one minister to the Wehrmacht, itself an instrument of the Nazi state while professing to adhere to C
EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev in September 1941 was the largest open-air shooting of Jews during the Holocaust. In some ways, it came to stand for the Einsat
Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Nuremberg Trials were the first attempt at coming to terms with Nazi criminality. While there was a legal component to this, there was also a psychological element. What
Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why. However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them. In
Ep. 65- A Nazi doctor and Post-war Justice with Andrew Wisely
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters. In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave
Ep. 64- The Birdman of Auschwitz with Nicholas Milton
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Sometimes it can still be surprising how deeply the Nazi state tainted every aspect of society...including ornithology. In this fascinating episode, I talk with Nicholas Mil
Ep. 63- Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The Nazis’ physical war on Jews also had important cultural repercussions. One of these was its assault on Yiddish. The Holocaust not only murdered many Yiddish speakers and
Ep. 62- Dehumanization and Genocide with David Livingstone Smith
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) We often hear the term “dehumanization” used in a variety of contexts. For example, dehumanization a set of beliefs, or a set of behaviors? Is it metaphorical or do people a
Ep. 61- Writing about Holocaust Perpetrators with Erin McGlothlin
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) How do we write about Holocaust perpetrators? What does that tell us about not only the historical figures themselves but also the ways in which we approach, describe, and a
Ep. 60- Perpetrators of Mass Violence with Alette Smeulers
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) What makes someone a perpetrator? Are killers born or made? One thing that is clear in studying the Holocaust and other genocides is that perpetrators come in all shapes and
Ep. 59- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando with Dominic Williams
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) Arguably, one of the worst places for prisoners to work during the Holocaust was the Sonderkommando—the group of prisoners forced to work in and around the gas chambers, dis
Ep. 58- Evolution of Genocide with Benjamin Meiches
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The concept of genocide is one of the few ideas created from scratch in the 20th century. As a result, it can be incredibly complicated to interpret, both legally and histor
Ep. 57- Magnus Hirschfeld, the trans community, and the Nazis with Brandy Schillace
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) When the Nazis carried out their infanous and well-documented book burning on the Opernplatz in May 1933, the literal fuel for that fire came from Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's In
Ep. 56- The Holocaust in Bulgaria with Nadége Ragaru
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) The story of Bulgaria and the Holocaust is often a narrative about how Bulgaria protected its Jews from the Nazis. But is this really case? Certainly not in the case of Thra
Ep. 55- Holocaust Photographs with Hilary Earl and Valerie Hébert
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/fan_mail/new) In December 1941, an SS man took a series of 12 photographs of an Einsatzgruppen killing in Latvia. The negatives were stolen by a survivor who had copies made and retrieved
