Wannsee. Looking at the International Dimension of the Holocaust.
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#10 Special Edition (German). The Vicious Circle.
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diese Folge ist auf Deutsch/ THIS EPISODE IS IN GERMAN. English Wrap-UP below. Die Ausstellung "Vicious Circle" zeigt fünf historische Pogrome gegen ...
#10 Special Edition. The Vicious Circle.
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our special edition we talk to curator Maiken Umbach about the exhibition "The Vicious Circle". It shows five historical pogroms against Jewish com...
#9 Hungary. Miklós Horthy and the Murder of the Hungarian Jews
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After World War I, Hungary plunged into political chaos. When the former commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian navy, Miklós Horthy, crushed a sh...
#8 Bulgaria. A German Ally and the Holocaust — Collaboration and Rescue
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1941 Bulgaria entered an alliance with Germany and participated in the occupation of Greece and Yugoslavia. Its government cooperated in the deport...
#7 Greece. Salonika - The Destruction of the Largest Jewish community on the Balkans
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Second World War, the largest Jewish community in Greece and in the Balkans lived in Thessaloniki. In 1900 they made up half of the city's ...
#6 Turkey. The Country of Refuge that wasn’t
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey remained neutral during the war. But the Nazis also planned to murder Turkey's Jews, as the list on page six of the Wannsee Protocol shows. We ...
#5 France. Vichy, the Resistance and the "Jewish Question"
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
France was one of the victors of World War I and a safe haven for many political and Jewish refugees in the 1930s. The Germans attacked and defeated t...
#4 Poland. Jewish Perspective and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The Holocaust was not a metaphor…as historians we must be aware of metaphors, and we must explain exactly the horrific things that happened during ...
#3 Poland. Polish Mayors during the Holocaust
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poland had the largest Jewish community in Europe before the war. Most of the more than 3 million Jews living in Poland were murdered in the Holocaust...
#2 Belgium. The Committee for the Defense of the Jews (CDJ)
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with the archivist and historian Dorien Styven – our colleague from the Belgian Holocaust Memorial "Kazerne Dossin" – about the Committee...
#1 Germany. Leo Baeck – Leading the Jewish Community in Troubled Times
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Leo Baeck was one of the leading scholars of liberal Judaism in his time. When the Nazis came to power, he became the chairman of the newly form...
#0 Introduction. Looking at the International Dimensions of the Holocaust
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The men at the Wannsee Conference planned to extend mass murder to all of Europe. In the protocol of the conference, Jewish populations were reduced t...