Holocaust (Audio)
Episodes
Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What paradoxes arise when victims of related persecution tell their stories next to, and after, each other? This question is at the heart of Ari Josko...
Addressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John A. Pérez, Regent Emeritus of the University of California, sits down with Robert Williams, Ph.D., CEO and Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of th...
My Droplet of Fate Reflects the Jewish Ocean: The Legacy of Béla Pásztor
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 20th century, Budapest was the second-largest Jewish city in Europe, and Jewish artists and intellectuals played a major role in the city...
The Kindness of Strangers: Survival in Linz London and Shanghai
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to survive persecution and exile? The story of Greta Taussig and Rudy Gans offers answers to this tantalizing question. Born in Linz...
An Antisemitic Double-Murder: The Forgotten History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Postwar West Germany
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead in their h...
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII Mussolini and Hitler
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1918 and 1921, Ukrainian peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution murdered over a 100,00...
German Big Business and the Holocaust
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Among the most striking exhibits at the Auschwitz museum are undoubtedly the mountains of loot stolen from Jews murdered upon arrival. Shoes, suitcase...
What’s Fascism Got to Do With It? The Ideological Origins of the Holocaust
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twentieth-century fascism was a political ideology encompassing totalitarianism, state terrorism, imperialism, racism, and, in Germany’s case, the m...
Death and Survival in Holocaust Landscapes
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does the concept of space enhance our understanding of the Holocaust? In this talk, British historian Tim Cole tells the story of the Shoah throug...
Hugo Marcus: A Muslim Jew Under the Swastika
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of th...
The Moral Triangle: Germans Israelis Palestinians with Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the Second World War came to an end, Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, lay in ruins. Few contemporaries, if any, could have anticipated tha...
Franci’s War – with Helen Epstein - Holocaust Living History Workshop
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 w...
Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death with David Marwell - Holocaust Living History Workshop
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who was Josef Mengele? After the end of the Holocaust, the German physician has been increasingly viewed as the personification of supreme evil both i...
Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Reflections on Sexual Violence Agency and Sex Work with Anna Hajkova- Holocaust Living History Workshop
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is everyday life, and how is it experienced under extreme stress? This is the broader question that animates the research of Anna Hájková, an a...
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko - Holocaust Living History Workshop
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of World War II, a team of Soviet scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to collect recently written songs dealing with the Holocaust. L...
Trauma Memory and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin - Holocaust Living History Workshop
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As a child, Gabriella Karin was separated from her parents and placed in a Slovakian convent for three years. Although physically safe, she did not em...
Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma with Amit Pinchevski - Holocaust Living History Workshop
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and ...
Racism in German and American Cinema of the Twenties: From The Ancient Law to The Jazz Singer with Charles Musser - Holocaust Living History Workshop
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Yale University professor and filmmaker Charles Musser explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of race relations in German and American ...
Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil with Susan Neiman - Holocaust Living History Workshop
19 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern T...
Shoah: Four Sisters
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Archivist Regina Longo (Brown University) joins UCSB’s Harold Marcuse (Department of History) for a discussion of Claude Lanzmann’s final film Sh...
When Biology Became Destiny: How Historians Interpret Gender in the Holocaust - Holocaust Living History Workshop
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the explosive growth of Holocaust studies, scholars of Nazi Germany and the Shoah long neglected gender as an analytical category. It wasn’t...
Inventing Genocide - The Contingent Origins of a Concept During World War II - Holocaust Living History Workshop
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The suite of international conventions and declarations about genocide, human rights, and refugees after the WWII is known as the “human rights revo...
Against All Odds: Born in Mauthausen with Eva Clarke -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be born in a concentration camp, arguably one of the most inhospitable places on earth? Eva Clarke was one of three “miracle ba...
Rising from the Rubble: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the creation of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto and its ...
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity with Philippe Sands -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In describing his new book, “East West Street” author Philippe Sands looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultane...
The Nazis Next Door with Eric Lichtblau -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In his highly-acclaimed book, The Nazis Next Door, Eric Lichtblau tells the shocking and shameful story of how America became a safe haven for Hitler'...
Archiving Atrocity: The International Tracing Service and Holocaust Research with Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The International Tracing Service, one of the world’s largest Holocaust-related archival repositories, holds millions of documents detailing the man...
The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: The Murder of a Town in Eastern Galicia with Omer Bartov: Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
13 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Omer Bartov, the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and German Studies at Brown University, explores the dynamics of the ho...
Eva Kor: Surviving the Angel of Death
25 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eva Kor was 10 when she and her family stepped off the train in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. Minutes later an SS officer took her and her twin siste...
Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals with Joel Dimsdale -- The Library Channel
18 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals, author Joel Dimsdale draws on decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dr...
Living with the Holocaust with Tom Segev -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- Library Channel
11 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Jerusalem to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Israeli journalist Tom Segev is a leading figure among the so-called New Historians, who have ...
Charlotte Salomon’s Interventions with Darcy Buerkle -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
19 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and artist Charlotte Salomon, the daughter of a highly cultivated Jewish family in Berlin, was deported to Auschwitz and murdered at the age of...
The Holocaust Litigations: Is Holding Corporate Evil Accountable an Impossible Dream? William S. Lerach -- A Life In the Law
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Veteran trial attorney William L. Lerach recounts his successful class action law suits against companies that prospered by taking advantage of Holoca...
The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men
16 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In his book “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men,” Eric Lichtblau investigates a trove of newly discovered doc...
Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
05 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Kurtz discusses his book, “Three Minutes in Poland,“ inspired by a three minute film that his grandfather had made in a predominantly Jewish...
Whatever Happened to Klimt’s Golden Lady? with E. Randol Schoenberg -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- UC San Diego Library Channel
15 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
E. Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of the composer Arnold Schoenberg, is an expert in handling cases involving looted art and the recovery of property...
Growing Up in the Shadow of the Holocaust -- Holocaust Living History Workshop -- The Library Channel
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Since the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Germans have been forced to confront their “unmasterable past.” What was it like to grow up in a divided co...
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
09 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, discusses her book "The Great Escape" where she follow...
Hitler’s Furies: Ordinary Women? Featuring Wendy Lower - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
08 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning historian Wendy Lower discusses the lives and experience of German women in the Nazi killing fields. Her study chillingly debunks the ag...
Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
17 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives, a tragedy the Romani people and Sinti refer to as the Porrajmos, or “th...
The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings
16 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Los Angeles attorney E. Randol Schoenberg presents an illustrated talk focusing upon five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were stolen by the Nazis from...
The Anatomy of Malice: Rorschach Results from Nuremberg War Criminals
10 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago, Dr. Joel Dimsdale started researching concentration camp survivors. Little did he know where his journey of discovery would lead him....
Holocaust and Genocide
08 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
What do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust o...
Deborah Lipstadt: The Eichmann Trial
09 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceed...
The Life and Work of Simon Wiesenthal with Tom Segev (Conversations with History)
14 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Tom Segev for a discussion of his new book, The Life and Legends of Simon Wiesenthal. The convers...
Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood
12 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Mahlendorf discusses some unexpected reader responses to her recently acclaimed memoir, “The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Chi...
Who Determines What Becomes History? A Witness' Reflections
28 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
George J. Wittenstein, a surviving member of the White Rose, a Hitler resistance organization, discusses how history is created and defined depending ...
Claudia Koonz - Hitler's Assault on the Golden Rule
04 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Using examples from visual and print media from the 1930s, Claudia Koonz explores the moral culture that normalized state-sanctioned persecution, thef...
Europe in War: Memories of a Holocaust
05 May 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Holocaust survivor and poet Dr. Karl O. Herz discusses his experiences as a Jewish boy growing up in Germany during the World War II. Series: "Voices...