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Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History publishes research on the Nazi genocides from a historical and social perspective. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rhos20

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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
📣 'Rediscovering the shtetl in the late Soviet period: the Leningrad Jewish Independent Movement of the 1980s and the re-establishment of Jewish studies' by Ulrike Huhn (Göttingen University), investigating abandoned material heritage and immaterial narratives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
 Ilya Dvorkin at the town sign of Volozhin. Photo album of the ‘Journey to Volozhin’ in 1987. Archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies.Figure 3. Leningrad, 1980s. Menia (Michael) Tsiris's wedding. Huppah. The next to the right of the groom is Yitzchak (Izya) Kogan. Ilya Dvorkin (without glasses) stands as the third next to Menia Tsiris. The ceremony is conducted by Avraam Lvovich Medal'e. Credits to the Institute of Jewish Studies St. Petersburg, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel and the Leonid Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry/ Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Nevzlin Collection. URL: https://www.nli.org.il/en/images/NNL_ALEPH004805351/NLI.
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"A history of overwriting: Jewish cemeteries in postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus" by Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Alexander Friedman, Ina Sorkina & Magdalena Waligórska, supported by Gerda Henkel Foundation Read open access now! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Figure 1. Bird-eye view of the historic area of the new Jewish cemetery of Biłgoraj and the smaller, fenced off area preserved to this day, July 2022. Photo: Tomasz Cebulski.Figure 2. The area of the Jewish cemetery in Iŭje, 2021. Photo: Ina Sorkina.Figure 3. The area of the flooded Jewish cemetery of Berezne, 2023. Photo: Aleksej Zlatogorskij.Figure 4. An area used as a meeting point, Jewish cemetery in Biłgoraj, July 2022. Photo: Marta Duch-Dyngosz.
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🏆 The winner of the 2024 author prize for the best research article published in the journal that year is Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill, PhD student in International History at LSE. Read 'Did the Nazis plan to extend the final solution beyond Europe? Assessing the evidence' open access lnkd.in/eT3nfitQ

Image: German troops marching through Tunis in 1943. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
'Discordant necropolitics: survivor-led exhumations and violence against the dead in the early post-Holocaust Poland' This article by Zuzanna Dziuban (@ikwoeaw.bsky.social) is part of the @ercresearch.bsky.social project 'Globalized Memorial Museums' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The ERC project analyzes 50 museums on four continents. (@ Ljiljana Radonić)
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📣 New publication: 'Death and destruction in Dayvd-Haradok. German crimes, local complicity in the Holocaust, and survivors’ search for justice in a former Polesian shtetl' by Franziska Exeler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social as part of her special issue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The administrative division of Soviet Belarus under Nazi occupation, 1941–1944. Map by Mike Bechthold.
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
'Erosive durability: underground architecture of hideouts and their vernacular memory in today’s Poland and Ukraine' introduces Aleksandra Janus and Natalia Romik's artistic research project analysing the materiality & contemporary vernacular memory of hideouts www.tandfonline.com/...
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Magdalena Waligórska & Franziska Exeler's special issue 'After the void: the afterlife of the shtetl in postwar Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine' explores in history, culture, architecture & sociology how non-Jews interact with formerly Jewish spaces. 🔖 Introduction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“The Town on the Trail of Borderland Cultures,” a replica of the wooden synagogue of Volpa, 2015. Photo by Monika Tarajko, digital collection of the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre (www.teatrnn.pl)
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Holocaust Studies @holocauststudies.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Welcome to the re-launch of the Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History twitter, with some changes to the editorial team, and lots to look forward to for 2023...
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