The Holocaust History Podcast

Send us Fan Mail 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 talked with Julie Brill about her personal and family journey toward uncovering her father's Holocaust history in Yugoslavia. We talk about memory, the journey of researching family history, and what it means to be a 2nd generation survivor. Julie Brill is an author and doula. Brill, Julie. H...

Send us Fan Mail 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 focused on bringing those experiences to light. We talk about the actions of a number of young Jewish women in the Warsaw Ghetto resistance, both during the uprising itself but also before. From traveling in disguise across occupied Poland to smuggling weapons to leading fighting groups. Elizabeth H...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Julie Golding about the challenges of presenting such material in Holocaust education and at Holocaust museums. How shoudl museums address the emotional wellbeing of their visitors? What kinds of content is appropriate (and how do you decide?). We talk about these and many other issues in ...

Send us Fan Mail 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 myth of Jewish vengeance and many Germans after the war feared widespread retaliation by Holocaust survivors. Indeed, there were some attempts to carry out revenge attacks on Nazis after the war. In this episode, I talked with Laura Jockusch about what revenge meant in all these contexts a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 kinds of supernatural, occult, and border scientific beliefs influenced many of the leading Nazis. In addition, these beliefs also ultimately provided a contextual background that influenced Nazi policy. This is one of the reasons that these fringe and often outlandish beliefs are so important...