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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · 7d

Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture
"Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction"
Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/631594

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · 10d

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Comparative Approaches to Holocaust Geographies
Learn more here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632900

Wednesday, October 29, 12:00-1:00 PM (CST)
Online Only | Registration required

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · 21d

HEFNU is excited to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau, co-edited by HEFNU director Sarah M. Cushman along with Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams.

A purchase link for the book with a 20% discount is available here:

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Virtual Book Launch:
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT

Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Jul 29

HEFNU’s 29th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held from June 22 to July 4, saw another wonderful cohort of Fellows. Learn more about our annual Summer Institute here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Jun 30

Apply Now!
HEFNU Regional Institute: Los Angeles

HEFNU and Loyola Marymount University are pleased to announce the Regional Institute “Acts of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-survivor World.”

Details and application requirements can be found here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Jun 24

Call for Papers:

LESSONS & LEGACIES XVIII
HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities
International Conference on the Holocaust

hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...

12-15 November 2026 (Thursday–Sunday)
Chicago, Illinois

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Summer 2025 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...

Featuring Monique Balbuena, Daniel Greene, Maja Kruse, and Alexandria N. Ruble

#hefnu #holocauststudies #holocausteducation #newsletter

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · May 15

On Tuesday, May 6, HEFNU hosted our annual Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies, “Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera.” Thank you, Jennifer Evans, for joining us at Northwestern!

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · May 12

We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the HEFNU Sharon Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust.

More information about this year’s recipients can be found on our website:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · May 7

HEFNU Series on Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues

What is Nazism? What is Fascism? (Online Roundtable)

Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)

Registration is required: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Apr 17

Emerging Scholars Program (Online Only)
“Alternatives to Academia (“Alt-Ac”) in Holocaust Studies”
Wednesday, May 14th, 11am-1pm EST
Featuring Dr. Susan Perlman (USHMM) and Dr. Ian Rich (Wiener Holocaust Library)

More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628795

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Apr 8

"Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera"
Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies featuring Jennifer V. Evans (Carleton University)

Tuesday, May 6, 5–7 PM
Harris Hall, Room 108
In-Person Only | Reception to Follow

planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628149

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Apr 7

New Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
“The Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creation” (Online Roundtable)
Thursday, April 17, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)

Registration is required:
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628148

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Mar 17

Opportunity of Interest (not a program of HEFNU)

Please join us this Thursday, March 20, as HEFNU director, Sarah Cushman, presents on “Women in Auschwitz” as part of the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust.

Online Only | Register Here:

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cfc3d2...

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Mar 13

Online Roundtable Discussion: "Postmemorial Constellations in Socialist and Postsocialist Holocaust Literature"

Thursday, April 3 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST | Online Only

Find more information, including the registration link, here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627246

Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Mar 5

HEFNU congratulates the recipients of our 2026-2026 Academic Year Teaching Grants. Teaching grants help faculty launch new courses related to the Holocaust or enhance institutional resources to reinforce such courses.

More information can be found here: hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Feb 25

On February 20, we hosted our annual Winter Lecture, “The Intoxication of Killing: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany.” We welcomed Ed Westermann, who explored how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant in the Holocaust.

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Feb 17

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: "Gender and the Holocaust"

Tuesday, March 11 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST

Online Only | Registration Required

planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/626479

Featuring Marion Kaplan, Björn Krondorfer, Na'ama Shik, and Helen Sinnreich

Image advertizing Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight event, with headshots of Marion Kaplan, Bjorn Krondorfer, Na'ama Shik, and Helene Sinnreich

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Feb 17

Please join us this Thursday for our annual Winter Lecture, "The Intoxication of Killing," featuring Ed Westermann.

February 20 | 5-7 PM Central Time

In-Person only | Open to the Public | Reception to Follow.

hef.northwestern.edu/events/

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · Feb 13

On 25 Feb at 6pm, my esteemed colleague Prof Anita Norich will give an in-person public talk in London at UCL on "Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust." Open to the public, but pre-registration required. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...

Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust

In person talk by Anita Norich (Emeritus University of Michigan), an esteemed scholar of Yiddish literature who has published on topics such as the Holocaust in American Yiddish literature, translatin...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Holocaust Educational Foundation @hefnu.bsky.social · Feb 6

HEFNU is excited to co-sponsor this Online Roundtable Discussion: "Gendered Translations of the Holocaust." Please join us on February 13 at 12 PM Eastern Time.

More information here, including registration information, here: hef.northwestern.edu/events/

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