Just published! '‘No man’s land’: deportations from Slovak territory in 1938: a case study of the Jewish community of Čadca' by Zuzana Sihelníková tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Deadline for abstract is 1st March for what looks like a brilliant conference on movement and mapping in Holocaust studies >>>

We’re pleased to announce the call for papers for our summer in-person conference. It’ll be on 4-5 July, held at the University of Exeter. The theme is ‘Holocaust Comparisons: Controversies, Difficulties, and Potentials’. *The deadline for proposals is Friday 23 February*

Holocaust Studies Jay Prosser You can read more on this study in this excellent piece in the The Jewish Chronicle 📰 spr.ly/6011TQDaU 2/2 @UniLeedsNews

📜Published open access! 'Cecil Roth’s Torah scroll shoe soles: collecting Holocaust relics in Greece' by Jay Prosser, examining them as sacred and sacrilegious, texts and objects, Greek Jewish and non-Jewish Greek artifacts, and their ongoing story tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 Just published! 'Understanding the challenges of segmenting Holocaust history and remembrance on museums’ social media pages', by Stefania Manca (CNR ITD - Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche) using a Delphi study from 22 experts tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Latest article: 'Individual attempts to help Jews in Independent State of Croatia (NDH): petition letters by ordinary Croats' 📨 By Andrijana Perković Paloš and Marin Pelaić (University of Split)

Just published! "Performing to survive: simulation, camouflage, and theatricality in Nazi concentration camps" by Laura Miñano Mañero Universitat València tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Read now: 'One step to freedom? The plight of Jewish forced laborers in the Hasag ammunition factory in Skarżysko-Kamienna after the plant evacuation' by Alicja Bartnicka (UMK Torun, supported by Narodowe Centrum Nauki) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our next blog is from Laura Miñano Mañero (Universitat València) reflecting on her Holocaust Studies article ‘Performing to survive: simulation, camouflage, and theatricality in Nazi concentration camps’ and Jewish/non-Jewish relations ✒️parkesinstituteblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/lau… US Holocaust Museum British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies pic.x.com/QHwBny9S7w

New special issue edited by David Tollerton and Helena Duffy! 'Genocide/ecocide: culture, public debate, language' includes six articles adding to ecocritical and zoocritical perspectives in Holocaust research Read the editors' introduction here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

.David Tollerton's article '‘Never right to make comparisons’? Holocaust memory, climate crisis, and the debate over appropriate discourse' considers Justin Welby’s apology for invoking the Holocaust during international climate negotiations Open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article: 'Wolves as witnesses: animals and depictions of the Holocaust in Misha Defonseca’s Misha and Francesco Lotoro’s Misha e I lupi' by Andrew L. Barrett Northwestern Bienen School of Music using Levinas' to explore the 'animal witnessing' of hoax to musical memoir tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

There is now just one week left to apply to attend our workshop on animals and the Holocaust! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/animals-… The Wiener Holocaust Library RHUL Holocaust Research Institute Holocaust News PMJ Holocaust Document Collection National Holocaust Museum UK

Just published in our Genocide/Ecocide special issue: ‘ … everything creaks, because of water … ’: nature in the Jasenovac concentration camp By Sabina Giergiel Uniwersytet Jagielloński & Katarzyna Taczyńska Polska Akademia Nauk in the framework of the environmental history of the Porajmos

'The ecology of liberation: animals, nature, geography' by Mark Celinscak University of Nebraska at Omaha, offers an ecocritical reading of the Holocaust from the perspective of liberator accounts concerning the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📣 CFP for a special issue of Holocaust Studies: 'Creative Responses to Holocaust Materialities' edited by Dr Hannah Wilson Jay Prosser Topics may include: production of creative works, materiality, art, creative engagement 1st August deadline for 300 word abstract! ⬇️

Very pleased to have my research on the history of Holocaust Education in Britain published in Holocaust Studies. Available through Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/175049…