Alan L. Berger (born 1939), the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University, Professor of Jewish Studies at Florida Atlantic University, Director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz,[5] Editor and Author of Interdisciplinary Holocaust Scholarship, Co-Editor of Second Generation Voices: Reflections by Children of Holocaust Survivors and Perpetrators,[6] and Member of the Florida Department of Education Holocaust Education Task Force.[7]
Christopher Browning (born 1944), an American historian of the Holocaust who is best known for his work Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, a study of German Reserve Police Battalion 101 that massacred Jews in Poland.
Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), among the earliest American historians of the Holocaust, whose work, including her book The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 (1975), investigated the political and social context of the events.[8]
Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), a British historian who has published many historical volumes about the Holocaust.
Alena Hájková (1924–2012), Czech Communist resistance fighter who became a chief historian on Jews in the Czechoslovak resistance.
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian who is widely considered to be the world's preeminent Holocaust scholar.
Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Italian Jewish chemist who survived Auschwitz, and later published over a dozen works. He committed suicide on April 11, 1987.
Franklin Littell (1917–2009), a Protestant scholar who is regarded by some as the founder of the field of Holocaust studies.
Carol Rittner (born 1943), Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Stockton University, who co-produced the Academy Award nominated documentary The Courage to Care, and has written a number of important works about the Holocaust and various genocides.
Education about the Holocaust, or Holocaust education, refers to efforts, in formal and non-formal settings, to teach about the Holocaust. Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust (TLH) addresses didactics and learning, under the larger umbrella of education about the Holocaust, which also comprises curricula and textbooks studies. The expression "Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust" is used by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.[9]
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Further reading
Engel, D. (2021). The Holocaust: The Third Reich and the Jews. Routledge.
Feierstein, D., & Town, D. A. (2014). Discourse and Politics in Holocaust Studies: Uniqueness, Comparability, and Narration. In Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (pp. 71–86). Rutgers University Press.
Friedman, J. C. (Ed.). (2010). The Routledge History of the Holocaust. Routledge.
Gutwein, D. (2009). The Privatization of the Holocaust: Memory, Historiography, and Politics. Israel Studies, 14(1), 36–64.
Hayes, P., & Roth, J. K. (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. Oxford University Press.
Hirsch, M., & Spitzer, L. (2010). The Witness in the Archive: Holocaust Studies/Memory Studies. In S. Radstone & B. Schwarz (Eds.), Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates (pp. 390–405). Fordham University Press.
Hudzik, J. P. (2020). Reflections on German and Polish Historical Policies of Holocaust Memory. The Polish Review, 65(4), 36–59.
LaCapra, D. (1994). Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma. Cornell University Press.
Libowitz, R. (1990). Holocaust Studies. Modern Judaism, 10(3), 271–281.
Littell, F. H. (1980). Fundamentals in Holocaust Studies. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 450, 213–217.
Rittner, C., & Roth, J. K. (2020). Advancing Holocaust Studies. Routledge.
Segal, Raz (15 August 2024). "Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies". Journal of Palestine Studies: 1–24. doi:10.1080/0377919X.2024.2384385.
External links
Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education at Florida Atlantic University, Encouraging the Next Generation of Holocaust Researchers
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
Florida State Commissioner of Education's Task Force on Holocaust Education
Resources for Academics and Research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum