Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer
Send us Fan Mail 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 life, unmark...
2 Mars 1h 21min
Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean
Send us Fan Mail 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 just some ...
16 Feb 1h 25min
Ep. 71- Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková
Send us Fan Mail 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 have been ...
2 Feb 1h 25min
Ep. 70- Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad
Send us Fan Mail 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 survival ...
19 Jan 1h 18min
Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen
Send us Fan Mail 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 Christian ...
6 Jan 1h 38min
EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik
Send us Fan Mail 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 Einsatzgruppen ...
15 Dec 20251h 21min
Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai
Send us Fan Mail 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 made Na...
1 Dec 20251h 17min
Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish Diaries with Amy Shapiro Simon
Send us Fan Mail 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 this epi...
17 Nov 20251h 33min
