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.
Podcasting since 2025 • 19 episodes
Dialogues in Holocaust Studies and the Second World War
Latest Episodes
Pauline Steinhorn, *Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter’s Fight for Survival in Slave Labor Camps and Bergen-Belsen*. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Publishers, 2026.
Bronia Feldman never anticipated becoming the cornerstone of an underground medical network, particularly not within the harsh confines of the HASAG munitions factory's forced-labor system in occupied Poland. In September 1942, she was forcibly...
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Episode 16
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1:20:14
Evan McGilvray, *Marshal Pilsudski and his Wars for Polish Freedom: Poland's Conflicts with Ukraine, Lithuania and Soviet Russia*. Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2025.
This study is both captivating and long overdue, focusing on a pivotal figure in modern European history. Josef Pilsudski emerged as the foremost advocate for armed Polish resistance against Tsarist Russian domination in the early twentieth cen...
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Episode 15
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1:12:53
Frank Stahnisch, *Great Minds in Despair: The Forced Migration of German-Speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989*. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025.
The twentieth century saw two catastrophic world wars that resulted in the displacement of millions. Among those affected were numerous neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists from Nazi Germany and neighboring regions who had to flee durin...
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Episode 14
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1:55:20
Christine Schmidt, Elizabeth Anthony and Joanna Sliwa, *Older Jews and the Holocaust: Persecution, Displacement and Survival*. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2026.
Elderly Jews represented one of the most at-risk demographics during the Holocaust; however, there has been a scarcity of scholarly and literary attention directed towards their experiences. They were frequently among the initial victims of Naz...
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Episode 13
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56:43
Philip Uninsky, *Invented Lives from Troubled Times: A Jewish Family’s Forms of Resilience after Surviving Pogroms, Revolution and the Holocaust*. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
*Invented Lives from Troubled Times* offers a refreshing viewpoint on the complex routes to resilience, narrating the saga of a large Jewish family that survived decades of intense trauma in the 20th century. In addition to exploring his family...
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Episode 17
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