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The Holocaust History Podcast

@holocaustpod.bsky.social

A fortnightly podcast on the history of the Holocaust hosted by Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com) featuring expert guests talking about a variety of topics. https://thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know that women played a critical role in the Jewish resistance and during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? In this episode, I talked with Elizabeth Hyman about her fascinating work on these incredible women! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 81- Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto with Elizabeth Hyman - The Holocaust History Podcast

In Holocaust history much like history in general, women's voices and experiences have often been overlooked or ignored.  In this episode, I talk with an author who has focused on bringing those ...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · last mo.

How do Holocaust museums deal with traumatic material? How do we teach about this difficult topic with care and nuance, considering different audiences? On this episode, I talk with Julie J. Golding about this challenging subject. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 81- Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums with Julie Golding - The Holocaust History Podcast

HAve you encountered material on the Holocaust that you find disturbing or upsetting?  Was it in your reading or at a Holocaust site or museum?  In this episode, I talk with Julie Golding ab...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On the latest episode, I talked with Laura Jockusch about the fascinating phenomenon of Jewish revenge during and after the Holocaust. We explored the myths and realities of vengeance against the perpetrators as well as antisemitic myths involved. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 80- Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust with Laura Jockusch - The Holocaust History Podcast

Even as the Holocaust was ongoing, some Jews dreamed of and sought revenge for Nazi attacks on them.  Ironically, the Nazis themselves believed in a particularly antisemitic myth of Jewish vengea...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What is the truth behind the Nazi obsession with the occult? In this episode, I talked with Eric Kurlander about the Nazi pursuit of the supernatural, what it says about the Third Reich, and how it impacted the Nazi genocidal project. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander - The Holocaust History Podcast

There are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this.  The truth is that various kinds of supernatura...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What role did Polish mayors in enabling the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust? How do we investigate this difficult history? On the latest episode, I talk with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe about his important work on this topic. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 78- Polish Mayors and the Holocaust with Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Holocaust was a Nazi project, but it required the support, cooperation, complicity, and sometimes collaboration of a wide variety of non-Germans to carry out.  This complicity took a variety ...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 3mo ago

NEW on the @holocaustpod.bsky.social: A sobering lesson that justice must be continually reinforced or it fades.

The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nuremberg and its subsequent trials were supposed to bring Nazi criminals to justice...yet by 1958, almost all of them had been released from prison. How and why were they able to escape justice? On the latest episode, we talk about just this problem. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nuremberg and its subsequent trials were supposed to bring Nazi criminals to justice...yet by 1958, almost all of them had been released from prison. How and why were they able to escape justice? On the latest episode, we talk about just this problem. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 77- The Clemency and Paroling of Nazi War Criminals with Robert Hutchinson - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Nuremberg trials, though not perfect, represented in many ways an epic achievement in justice for crimes against humanity.  However, a darker and lesser-known element of the trials is what ha...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Have you heard about the Janowska camp before? It was an incredibly important place and one which exemplifies almost all elements of the Holocaust in one way or another. Check out the latest episode starring...your host and Holocaust scholar Doris Bergen. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 76- The Janowska camp with Waitman Wade Beorn and special guest host Doris Bergen - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Janowska concentration camp may well be the most important Holocaust place most people have never heard of.  It was central to the Holocaust in eastern Poland, was the scene of unspeakable cr...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

How did Nazi perpetrators confront (or avoid) their guilt, even when they were convicted? How did their families and children react? What happened to a whole generation of former Nazis in the postwar period? Check out the latest episode to find out! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 75- Guilt and the Postwar Lives of Nazi Perpetrators with Katherina von Kellenbach - The Holocaust History Podcast

How did Nazi war criminals engage with (or deny) their giult?  How was the prosecution and conviction of Nazi perpetrators dealt with in families?  What was the role of religion and faith as...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS@waitmanwbeorn.com · 5mo ago

New episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social! This was one was really great with @andreapitzer.bsky.social talking about the long history of concentration camps. Check it out!

The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What IS a concentration camp? Where did the concept come from? How does the history of concentration camps inform our understanding of them (past and present)? These are just some of the questions we covered in this episode with @andreapitzer.bsky.social. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

JMcN@jmcn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Another top pod from @waitmanwbeorn.com and @holocaustpod.bsky.social. FWIW let me heartily endorse KL, top book. And I have a recommendation. An account of the internment camp on the Isle of Man. #histbookchat

KL: A History of The Nazi Concentration Camps, Niklaus Waschmann. Little Brown 2015The Island of Extraordinary Captives, Simon Parkin. Sceptre 2023
The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What IS a concentration camp? Where did the concept come from? How does the history of concentration camps inform our understanding of them (past and present)? These are just some of the questions we covered in this episode with @andreapitzer.bsky.social. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What IS a concentration camp? Where did the concept come from? How does the history of concentration camps inform our understanding of them (past and present)? These are just some of the questions we covered in this episode with @andreapitzer.bsky.social. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 74- The Global History of Concentration Camps witih Andrea Pitzer - The Holocaust History Podcast

What is a concentration camp?  What are the distinguishing features of these spaces?  Where did they come from?In this episode, I talk with Andrea Pitzer about the long, global history of th...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In this episode, we go back to Babi Yar, the largest open-air shooting of the Holocaust which took place in Kyiv in September 1941. I talked with Victoria Khiterer about the massacre, bystanders, and the incredible struggle to commemorate this event. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer - The Holocaust History Podcast

It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history).  Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar life, unmarked and uncom...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In this episode, I talked with Carolyn Dean about witnessing the Holocaust and empathy. We had a wide-ranging conversaion about the appropriate use of images and also about bystanding and the challenge of indifference. A LOT to think about! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean - The Holocaust History Podcast

How do we approach witnessing the Holocaust? Are there appropriate or inappropriate ways to do this? Does witnessing make us more empathetic or more indifferent?  These are just some of the quest...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On this episode, I talked with @ankahajkova.bsky.social about her remarkable book on queer Jewish lives during the Holocaust. We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us. Check it out! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková - The Holocaust History Podcast

An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project.  For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How did women experience the Holocaust differently than men? And how does a gendered approach help us to better understand the past? On the latest episode, I talk with Elissa Bemporad about her work on Jewish women and the Holocaust. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad - The Holocaust History Podcast

How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men?  What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past?  How did gender play a role in survival and opp...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are BACK with our first episode of 2026! I talk with the amazing Doris Bergen about the role of German military chaplains in supporting the Nazi state and their complicity in its crimes. Check it out! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen - The Holocaust History Podcast

How could one be a man of God in Nazi Germany?  And, especially, how can one minister to the Wehrmacht, itself an instrument of the Nazi state while professing to adhere to Christian morality?&nb...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New episode! Babi Yar was the largest open-air shooting during the Holocaust. But efforts to commemorate it were difficult during the Soviet period. In this episode, I talked with Shay Pilnik about how Soviet writers treated the Babi Yar massacre. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik - The Holocaust History Podcast

The mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev in September 1941 was the largest open-air shooting of Jews during the Holocaust.  In some ways, it came to stand for the Einsatzgruppen killings tak...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you excited about the new movie Nuremberg? Want to learn more about the story behind the film? Check out the latest episode with Jack El-Hai, the author of the book the movie is based on! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Nuremberg Trials were the first attempt at coming to terms with Nazi criminality.  While there was a legal component to this, there was also a psychological element.  What made Nazi mind...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW Episode is live! How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish DIaries with Amy Shapiro Simon - The Holocaust History Podcast

We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why.  However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them.In this episode, I talke...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New episode! How did Nazi perpetrators attempt to evade prosecution (and their own guilt?) In this episode, I talked with Andrew Wisely about SS doctor Franz Lucas' attempts to manipulate history and the justice system. Check it out! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 65- A Nazi doctor and Post-war Justice with Andrew Wisely - The Holocaust History Podcast

Despite some popular perception, Holocaust perpetrators are rarely cartoonish pure evil characters.  In fact, many of them understood their guilt and actively sought to weave false narratives to ...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New episode is out! I talked with Nicholas Milton about the extraordinary (and chilling) life of the "Birdman of Auschwitz," an orithologist who drifted along the Nazi currents of atrocity. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 64- The Birdman of Auschwitz with Nicholas Milton - The Holocaust History Podcast

Sometimes it can still be surprising how deeply the Nazi state tainted every aspect of society...including ornithology.  In this fascinating episode, I talk with Nicholas Milton about Günther Nie...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New episode just dropped! I talk with Hannah Pollin-Galay about the effect of the Holocaust on Yiddish. How does a language work during a genocide? How did Jews use language to make sense of the Holocaust? This is a really fascinating conversation! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 63- Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Nazis’ physical war on Jews also had important cultural repercussions.  One of these was its assault on Yiddish.  The Holocaust not only murdered many Yiddish speakers and destroyed Yidd...

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The Holocaust History Podcast@holocaustpod.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New episode just dropped! I talk with Hannah Pollin-Galay about the effect of the Holocaust on Yiddish. How does a language work during a genocide? How did Jews use language to make sense of the Holocaust? This is a really fascinating conversation! thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Ep. 63- Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay - The Holocaust History Podcast

The Nazis’ physical war on Jews also had important cultural repercussions.  One of these was its assault on Yiddish.  The Holocaust not only murdered many Yiddish speakers and destroyed Yidd...

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