The Holocaust History Podcast
1) EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik
Send us a text 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 ki...Show More
2) Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai
Send us a text 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...Show More
3) Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish DIaries with Amy Shapiro Simon
Send us a text 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 episo...Show More
4) Ep. 65- A Nazi doctor and Post-war Justice with Andrew Wisely
Send us a text 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 narr...Show More
5) Ep. 64- The Birdman of Auschwitz with Nicholas Milton
Send us a text 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 G...Show More
6) Ep. 63- Yiddish and the Holocaust with Hannah Pollin-Galay
Send us a text 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...Show More
7) Ep. 62- Dehumanization and Genocide with David Livingstone Smith
Send us a text We often hear the term “dehumanization” used in a variety of contexts. For example, dehumanization a set of beliefs, or a set of behaviors? Is it metaphorical or do people actually bel...Show More
8) Ep. 61- Writing about Holocaust Perpetrators with Erin McGlothlin
Send us a text How do we write about Holocaust perpetrators? What does that tell us about not only the historical figures themselves but also the ways in which we approach, describe, and analyze them...Show More
9) Ep. 60- Perpetrators of Mass Violence with Alette Smeulers
Send us a text What makes someone a perpetrator? Are killers born or made? One thing that is clear in studying the Holocaust and other genocides is that perpetrators come in all shapes and sizes wit...Show More
10) Ep. 59- The Auschwitz Sonderkommando with Dominic Williams
Send us a text Arguably, one of the worst places for prisoners to work during the Holocaust was the Sonderkommando—the group of prisoners forced to work in and around the gas chambers, disposing of co...Show More