Life After the Center
As Holocaust museums and memorials proliferate, Center alumni are poised to assume leadership positions. Indeed they are doing just that as they continue to embrace opportunities for further research and public service. As the only program to provide doctoral education in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies, the Center is proud to serve as a training ground for future curators, education directors, and historians who will advance the field and enhance the education of teachers, students, and the public. Their activities, reported below, attest to the value of the Center’s enterprise of rigorous doctoral education.
Beth Cohen, Ph.D. "Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America, 1946-1954" Graduated, October 2003.
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Employment:
Project Leader, Jewish Education Program, Facing History and Ourselves, Los Angeles, CA, January 2009-present.Interim Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
Lecturer, California State University, Northridge, CA, 2008
Fellowships and Prizes:
Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Award, 2008Life Reborn Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for research on Displaced Persons, 2004-2005
Peter Hayes Research Fellowship, Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2002-2003
Selected Publications:
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press and US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006)
"The Magnificent Immigrants," New York State Archives Magazine, New York, Spring 2008.
"Holocaust Survivors in America," "We Are Here": New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany, Eds: Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz, Wayne State Press, 2007.
"From Case File to Testimony: Reconstructing Survivors' First Years in America," The Casden Annual, Vol. 6: The Impact of the Shoah on America and in Jewish American Life, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life Purdue University/ University of South Carolina Press, Spring 2007.
Recent Presentations:
Panel participant, "Displaced Persons, Social Welfare, and the Role of New York Communal Agencies at Home and Abroad," Milstein Conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience, YIVO, New York, November 2009."From Case File to Testimony: Reconstructing Survivors' First Years in America," Biennial American Jewish History Scholars Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 2008.
"Case Closed," An evening in honor of American Jewish History Month, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, June 2007.
"Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America," Mona and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, May 2007.
"Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors In Postwar America," Asher Family Lecture, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2007.
Contact: beth.cohen@csun.edu
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Sarah Cushman "The Women of Birkenau"
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Employment:
Assistant Director of Education, Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, New York, October 2007-present.Fellowships:
Steven Spielberg Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2001-2006Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2004-2005
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2006-2007
Selected Publications:
"Budy: Gender, Power, and Prisoner Relations," Collection from The Legacy of the Holocaust: Women and the Holocaust Conference, Jagiellonian University Press, December 2005"Women Perpetrators at Auschwitz-Birkenau," Probing the Boundaries/At the Interface Series, Collette Balmain and Lois Drawmer, eds. (Rodopi Publishers, October 2005).
Recent Presentations:
"Women during the Holocaust" and "The Concentration Camp System," The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County and Hofstra University Summer Institute, NY, July 2008Co-chair panel, Teaching about Women During the Holocaust, Lessons and Legacies X, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, November 2008.
Panel participant, Fourteenth Berkshire Conference, The History of Women: Continuities and Changes, Minneapolis, MN, June 2008.
Contact: sarahcushman@holocaustnassau.org
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Tiberiu Galis “Transitional Justice and Transition to a New Regime: Making Sense of Uncertain Times”
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Employment:
Director, Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, New York and Poland, September 2008 – present.Fellowships:
Rose Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2003-2008Open Society Institute Soros Foundation Global Supplementary Grant, 2004-2006
Selected Publications:
"Redefining Sudden Contact," co-authored with Caitlin Mahoney, Culture and Psychology, September 2006.Recent Presentations:
"The Importance of Doing Nothing: International Actors and Genocide Prevention, "International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2006.Contact: tgalis@clarku.edu
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Naama Haviv, MA "The Pre-Conditions for ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ through ‘Population Transfer’: The Case of Israel-Palestine" Graduated MA, October 2006.
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Employment:
Assistant Director, Jewish World Watch, Los Angeles, CA. 2007 - present.Projects Manager, Jewish World Watch in Los Angeles, California, 2007
US Schools and the Global Connections and Exchange Project (US) Coordinator for Relief International, Los Angeles, CA. 2006-2007
Intern, Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter, January 2006 - December 2007
Fellowships:
Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2003-2006Stern Family Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
Intern, Institute for the Study of Genocide Newsletter, January 2006 – December 2007
Recent Presentations:
"The Importance of Doing Nothing," Sixth Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, Prague, March 2005.Check out her active learning page: Naama Haviv is a firm advocate of active learning, and describes the several internships that she has incorporated into her undergraduate and graduate studies as being some of her most valuable experiences.
Contact: nhaviv@clarku.edu
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Rachel Iskov "Jewish Family Life in Lodz Ghetto"
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Fellowships:
Na'amat Louis Manpel Scholarship, 2006-2007Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2003-2005
Gildin Yiddish Book Scholarship, National Yiddish Book Center, 2005-06
Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005
Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2005
Selected Publications
"Brzeziny," The Ghettos Encyclopedia, (Washington D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, December 2009)."Jewish Refugees from the Surrounding Communities in the Warsaw and Lodz Ghettos," Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future, Conference Proceedings for Lessons and Legacies IX, John Roth, Lynn Rapaport and Jonathan Petropoulos, eds. (Northwestern University Press, 2008).
Hunger and Family Life in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos," Legacies of the Holocaust: Women and the Holocaust Conference Proceedings, Jay Lees and Zygmunt Mazur, eds. (Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2006).
Recent Presentations:
"Families Resisting Deportation in the Lodz Ghetto," The Legacy of the Holocaust: Family and the Holocaust, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, May 2009."The Survivors’ Cemetery: Landscapes of Familial Memorialization," Lessons and Legacies X, Holocaust Educational Foundation and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 2008
Conference Roundtable Participant, "Women and the Holocaust: Gender, Identity, and Survivor Testimony," Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: Continuities and Changes, Minneapolis, MN, June 2008.
"Childbearing and Abortion in the Lodz Ghetto," Association for Jewish Studies 39th Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, December 2007.
Contact: riskov@clarku.edu
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Jeffrey Koerber
“Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and Their Response to Oppression and
Genocide, 1933–1948"
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Fellowships:
Claims Conference Academic Fellow for Advanced Shoah Studies, The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, 2009-2010.Peter Hayes Research Fellowship Award from the Holocaust Educational Foundation, April 2009
Fulbright Student Grantee to Belarus and Poland, Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, 2007-2008
Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Award (Russian), U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 2007
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany), Graduate Studies Fellow, 2003-2006
Tauber Institute Award, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, 2006 - 2007
Recent Presentations:
"Beyond the Polemics: Jewish Youth in Soviet Vitebsk on the Eve of the Holocaust," Children and Youth during the Holocaust panel, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009."Young Zionists and Young Jewish Communists: The Borderland Generation and Their Responses to the Holocaust," Clark University History Department Colloquium, Clark University, February 2009.
"Communities on the Edge of Annihilation: Jews in Vitebsk and Grodno during the 1930s," Graduate Student Multidisciplinary Conference, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 2007.
Contact: jkoerber@clarku.edu
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Robin Krause "German Opposition to Genocide: The Case of the Herero, 1904-1907"
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Fellowships:
Siff Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2004-2005German Historical Institute, Summer Seminar, June 2005
Fromson Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 2003-2004
Selected Publications:
"The Herero/Nama Genocide," Great Events of the 20th Century, 1900-1940, Salem Press, March 2007.Review: "The Hand of Compassion," Fides et Historia, Fall 2006.
Recent Presentations:
"Remembering the Holocaust and Reflecting on the Present," Yom Hashoah Commemoration, Holocaust and Genocide History Project, Portland Museum, Louisville, KY, April 2007."Genocide in German Sudwest Afrika: An Overview of the Discussion it Generated," Genocide War and Memory, German Colonialism and National Identity, Sheffield, England September 2006.
Contact: rkrause@clarku.edu
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Beth Lilach "Aftermath of Liberation: Jewish Life in Displaced Persons Camps, Germany 1945-1957"
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Employment:
Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, New York. 2007-presentLecturer, Florida Atlantic University, Davie Campus, 2003 – 2006.
Fellowships:
International Association of Genocide Scholars, Graduate Scholarship, 2003Tapper Fellow for Graduate Studies in Holocaust History, 1998-2003
Recent Presentations:
"Teaching Tolerance: Engendering Respect and Diversity in the Classroom," Nassau TRACT Teacher Center, Tolerance and Diversity Conference, NY, 2009"Unwanted Remnants: Giving Voice to ‘Asocial’ Survivors in the Postwar Era, 1951-1957," Fourteenth Berkshire Conference, History of Women: Continuities and Changes, Minneapolis, MN, June 2008.
"Idiots, Imbeciles, and the Loathsome Diseased," The Hidden History of Postwar Refugees, Refugees and the End of Empire Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, England, June 2007
Contact: bethlilach@holocaustnassau.org
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Ilana Offenberger "The Nazification of Vienna and the Response of the Viennese Jews"
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Fellowships:
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2003-2006
Recent Presentations:
Jewish Life in Nazi Ghettos Panel Chair, First International Graduate Students’ Conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, April 2009."Kristallnacht in Vienna: Fragments of a Shattered World," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campus Outreach Lecture Program, Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration Ceremony, Ramapo College, NJ, November 2006.
"Jewish Responses to the Nazi Takeover of Austria," Fellows meeting, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies - Visiting Scholars Program, Washington, DC, October 2006.
"An Ethical Problem: The Assets Transfer Agency and the 'Legalized' Robbery of the Viennese Jews," 35th Annual Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
Contact: ioffenberger@clarku.edu
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Christine Schmidt, Ph.D. "The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais-Lignon"
Graduated, October 2003.
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Employment:
Communications Officer, Public Interest Law Institute, Budapest, Hungary 2008 – present.
Adjunct Professor of History,University of Maryland University College, Maryland, 2008 - present.
Director of Education, Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, New York, 2007 - 2008.
Bader Foundation Research Assistant, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, August 2003 - 2005.
Fellowships:
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Fellowship, 2009
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Corvinus University, Budapest, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of International Relations, September 2006-January 2007.
J and O Winter Fund Research Grant for Holocaust-related research, Gábor Várszegi Endowment, 2006
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hungarian Scholarship Board, Hungarian Ministry of Education, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of International Relations, sponsored in conjunction with Corvinus University of Budapest, 2005–2006
Selected Publications:
Holocaust entries, Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, (Cambridge University Press, 2009.)
"Drops in the Ocean: Rescue Operations of Jews in Southern France and Hungary during the Holocaust," in Randolph Braham, ed., The Holocaust: Essays and Documents (Columbia University Press, 2010).
One hundred and fifty plus entries on subcamps of Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrueck, Buchenwald, and Neuengamme in Geoffrey Megarquee, ed., Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos in Nazi Germany and Nazi-dominated Territories, 1933-1945, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, 2009.
"Elusive 'Texts': Survivor Testimony and the Memory of Rescue during the Holocaust," in Johannes-Dieter and Inge Weber-Newth (eds.) Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution. Proceedings of the International Conference, 2006, Osnabruck: Imperial War Museum and Scolo Verlag, 2008.
Recent Presentations:
"Rescue and the Rescuers: France," Holocaust Museum Houston Summer Institute for Educators, July 2007.
"Teaching Humanity During the Holocaust," New York City Department of Education, K-12 Social Studies at the Core Conference, Columbia University, March 2007.
"Jewish Life in Hiding: The Plateau Vivarais-Lignon," Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Summer Institute for Teachers, Columbia University, June 2006.
Contact: christine.e.schmidt@gmail.com
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Lotta Stone "Seeking Asylum: Jewish Refugees to South Africa 1930-1948"
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Employment:
Interim Director of Education, Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, New York, NY, May 2008 – December 2008.Director of Education, Holocaust and Humanity Center of Cincinnati, OH, October 2007–May 2008.
Fellowships:
Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) Graduate Studies Fellow, 2003-2006Kaplan Research Fellowship, Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2005
Yiddish for Holocaust Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004
Selected Publications:
"The Youngest Refugees," Jewish Affairs, South African Jewish Board of Deputies, Johannesburg, South Africa, December 2005."Flight to South Africa: The Tale of Two Ships," Holocaust Persecution: Responses and Consequences, ed. By Nancy Rupprecht and Wendy Koenig, Cambridge Scholarly Press, Spring 2009.
Recent Presentations:
"We Are Here: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust." and "Jewish Women in the Resistance," Teacher Training Seminar, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State University, Keene, NH, February 2009."Taking Flight: German Jewish Refugees in South Africa," Keene State University, Keene, NH, February 2009
"Seeking Asylum: German Jewish Refugees to South Africa," Center for Holocaust and Humanity, International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, Cincinnati, OH, January 2008.
"Seeking Asylum: Escape to South Africa," Middle Tennessee State University Holocaust Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, September 2007.
"Flight to South Africa: The Tale of Two Ships," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Hawaii, January 2007.
Contact: lostone@clarku.edu
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