I am delighted to have been invited to give a talk this weekend at the conference ‘What Is Testimony For?’ at Yale University, which explores cultures of remembrance of the Second World War in digital games.

https://macmillan.yale.edu/gsp/events/2026-04-26/what-testimony

#HolocaustStudies #GameStudies

Authoritarian systems rarely announce themselves.

The Gestapo’s early persecution of immigrants laid the groundwork for a machinery of terror that would engulf all of Europe.

#HistoryMatters #HumanRights #HolocaustStudies #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/the-gestapo-and-immigrant-persecution-in-nazi-germany/

#Chancen | Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/raddock-family-eminent-scholar-chair-for-holocaust-studies-florida-atlantic-university/

#HolocaustStudies #JewishStudies

Deadline for applications: December 15, 2025

Avery Monette, "The Day Manitoba Fell to Nazi Germany"

In the middle of a mildly interesting story about a simulated WW2 invasion of Canada, a war bond fundraising stunt, is a chilling discussion of the deliberate censorship in Canada of news about the Holocaust as it was happening, to "[spare] Canadian civilian morale and some possible guilt feelings.”

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11/13/the-day-manitoba-fell-to-nazi-germany/

#History
#WorldWar2
#HolocaustStudies

#Chance | Associate Professor/Professor - History of the Holocaust at the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies @UofT | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/associate-professorprofessor-history-of-the-holocaust-university-of-toronto/

#professor #HolocaustStudies

Deadline for applications: October 21, 2025

#Chancen | The EHRI invites applications for the EHRI-ERIC Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme for Holocaust research and documentation | Details: https://www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichten/2025-call-for-the-conny-kristel-fellowship-programme-ehri/

#fellowship #HolocaustStudies

Deadline for applications: September 28, 2025

"Wenn ich all diese Quellen manuell hätte auswerten wollen, wäre ich mit der Quellenakquise wohl noch in zehn Jahren beschäftigt gewesen."

Lucie Kahlert nutzt das digitale Tool #MAXQDA, um im riesigen Quellenkorpus der Nürnberger Prozesse zu untersuchen, wie die Formel "Frauen und Kinder" die Rechtsprechung prägte ⬇

https://href.hypotheses.org/4766

#href #GHIWashington #NFDI4Memory #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory #NSGeschichte #HolocaustStudies

🎤 Vortrag

Interviewzeugnisse: Über die Fabrikation von historischer Vorstellungskraft und Sinnbildung
Mit Dr. Axel Doßmann

📅 12.2.25 | 18:15 Uhr
📍 Goethe-Uni FFM, Campus Westend, Casino 1.802
👉 https://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/fabrikation-von-historischer-vorstellungskraft-und-sinnbildung

#Erinnerungskultur #Zeitgeschichte #HolocaustStudies

"As their institutions have flailed in addressing the relentless Israeli assault on #Gaza, and their colleagues have split into irreconcilable camps over whether to describe it as genocide, many scholars have diagnosed a 'crisis' in the field of genocide studies."

#JewishCurrents' #MariCohen reports on how #GenocideStudies institutions are grappling with a #genocide committed by #Israel

https://jewishcurrents.org/can-genocide-studies-survive-a-genocide-in-gaza

#GazaGenocide #Palestine #ColonialViolence #HolocaustStudies @palestine @israel