Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War

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Linda Erker and Raanan Rein, *Nazis and Nazi Sympathizers in Latin America after 1945*. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

2026-11-0601:07:37

Send us Fan Mail Alongside notorious perpetrators Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, and Klaus Barbie, numerous Nazi operatives and ideological sympathizers from German-speaking societies fled to Latin American havens after 1945. The details of their lives and occupations, as well as their networks of association with regional power brokers, remain insufficiently examined in rigorous scholarship. This collection sheds light on the new lives they established across Latin America, documenting their...

Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss, *The People’s Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942-June 1943*. Mark Elliott Shapiro, trans. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2026.

2026-10-1501:50:31

Send us Fan Mail This book sheds light on the lives, decisions, and experiences of countless Jews who, although not involved in the underground armed resistance, still made significant contributions to the renowned Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This gripping and dramatic account focuses on the final year of the Warsaw ghetto, from the Great Deportation in the summer of 1942 until the uprising's suppression in mid-1943. Drawing from powerful contemporary testimonies, diaries, and documents—many of w...

Rina Lapidus, *Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War*. New York: Routledge, 2014.

2026-10-1201:10:17

Send us Fan Mail This book honours the legacies of fifteen young Jewish poets whose lives were tragically cut short—whether through combat, wounds sustained in service, or execution—while fighting for the Red Army during World War II. Each of these individuals was remarkably young, gifted with poetic talent, and thoughtfully woven into the fabric of Soviet life, yet they maintained a meaningful connection to their Jewish heritage and customs. Their verses, crafted primarily in Russian, Yiddis...

Guri Schwarz, ed., *These Thoughts of Mine: Diaries of an Italian Jewish Partisan, January 1940-Feburary 1944* by Emanuele Artom. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Publications, 2022.

2026-09-1801:54:57

Send us Fan Mail Emanuele Artom (Aosta, 1915–Turin, 1944) was a deeply respected Italian Jewish intellectual and influential voice within the Italian Jewish community who endured the pain of racial persecution and courageously joined the resistance in 1943. His diaries, now thoughtfully made available in English for the first time, offer invaluable insights into Italian Jewry, Fascist antisemitism, and the anti-Fascist resistance movement. Emanuele Artom's powerful testimony enables us to un...

Ashley Valanzola, *When She Remembered: Seven Women Who Transformed French Holocaust Memory*. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2026.

2026-09-1001:18:13

Send us Fan Mail This monograph presents a connected group of seven prominent women, ranging from notable figures such as Simone Veil to memory activist Sabine Zlatin, who have played a crucial role in shaping Holocaust memory in France from 1945 to the present. Most of these women initiated their memory work immediately after the war by offering testimonies at trials of perpetrators and during the establishment of memorials. Over the following decades, their endeavors transformed from indiv...

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Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War