Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War
This podcast features interviews with authors of new research, fresh monographs and recent books about the Holocaust and World War II.
Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War
Latest Episodes
Julie Brill, *Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia*. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Publishers, 2025
This family's account of the Holocaust in Serbia unveils a significant, previously unrecognized aspect of Holocaust history, alongside a daughter's unwavering quest to reveal the story that began a generation before her birth.From a you...
Kate Garrett, Andrew McNamara and Seumas Spark, eds., *Voices of the Dumera: Ernst Kitzinger, Exile and Essays on Internment*. London: Berghahn Books, 2026.
Ernst Kitzinger, a notable art historian of the twentieth century, was also a refugee who found himself detained in Hay, New South Wales during World War II. He sought asylum in Britain in 1935 as a German Jew, but in 1940, he became one of 2,5...
Laura Hobson Faure, *Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust*. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
As the Second World War loomed, it is estimated that 1.6 million Jewish children resided in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of these children managed to escape to Britain through the Kindertransport, only around 500 found sanctuary in France...
Caroline Sharples, *The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History*. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
Even though the gun Adolf Hitler employed on himself in April 1945 was highly effective, the circumstances of his death took an unexpectedly lengthy course. The world was eager for information, but there were no witnesses to his suicide, and hi...
Dariusz Jeziorny, *British Diplomacy and the Concept of the Eastern Pact (1933-1935): Analyses, Projects, Activities*. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2017
In this monograph, Dariusz Jeziorny explores British diplomatic relations from 1933 to 1935, shedding light on London's viewpoint regarding the Eastern Pact and highlighting the reasoning and actions of British diplomacy within the framework of...
