Kramen’s dissertation, Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald, 1945-1957, focuses on Jewish survivors living in Föhrenwald, the longest-running Jewish displaced persons camp in postwar Germany. She investigates how Jewish DPs conceived of justice and symbolic revenge in postwar Germany and how ideas of, and actions toward, justice evolved over time in response to shifting political, social, and economic conditions. Her research elucidates an area of Jewish life during and after the Holocaust that has received scant attention, offering a new perspective on how Jews coped with the trauma they experienced under the Nazi regime and reestablished a sense of justice in the process, while contributing more broadly to the study of transitional justice processes in the wake of mass violence beyond formal international criminal tribunals.
Advisor: Debórah Dwork
Education:
- B.A., History and Political Science (Holocaust Studies Special Interest Program), Albright College, Reading,
PA, 2006 - J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
- M.A., Holocaust & Genocide Studies, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, 2015
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Fellowships:
- Claims Conference Fellow (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) *, 2017-2022
- Marlene and David Persky Research Award, 2017-2022
- 2018 Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Visiting Scholars Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
- Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, 2021-2022
- Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY, 2021-2022
- David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, 2020-2021
- Junior Fellowship, Center for Holocaust Studies, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, DE, 2020-2021
- Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives, New York, NY, 2020-2021
