Rebecca Erbelding (she/her)
@rerbelding.bsky.social
Historian of American responses to the Holocaust, author of "Rescue Board" (Doubleday, 2018). Love cats, books, TV, travel, teachers, fighting for a better world. Opinions mine.
Let's do it! Happy New Year to you and yours too.
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Let's do it! Happy New Year to you and yours too.
Ron just read me this post out loud on the couch and I logged in specifically to like it.
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Ron just read me this post out loud on the couch and I logged in specifically to like it.
If you're in the DC area, the USHMM usually has a survivor in the main hall from Monday-Friday to meet people and answer questions. If you DM me (or ask @andreapitzer.bsky.social for my email), I can give you more details and recommendations of when to come
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
If you're in the DC area, the USHMM usually has a survivor in the main hall from Monday-Friday to meet people and answer questions. If you DM me (or ask @andreapitzer.bsky.social for my email), I can give you more details and recommendations of when to come
I got "brain rot" and then "mid" so....not looking great for me this year
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I got "brain rot" and then "mid" so....not looking great for me this year
You're right, it barely scrapes metadata--I use it at the beginning of my process, so I'm inputting that manually (since I'm pulling pdfs of docs I copied in archives). And yeah, useless as a draft manager, I think. It does detect dupes now, fwiw, but doesn't sound viable for you.
January 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM
You're right, it barely scrapes metadata--I use it at the beginning of my process, so I'm inputting that manually (since I'm pulling pdfs of docs I copied in archives). And yeah, useless as a draft manager, I think. It does detect dupes now, fwiw, but doesn't sound viable for you.
huh, I just drag and drop pdfs from my desktop--but depends on what other kind of info you want to import, I guess. Hope you can find a system that works for you and your workflow! It's so stressful to feel like your research is getting away from you.
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
huh, I just drag and drop pdfs from my desktop--but depends on what other kind of info you want to import, I guess. Hope you can find a system that works for you and your workflow! It's so stressful to feel like your research is getting away from you.
If it's helpful, check out Papers (papersapp.com). There's AI bs, but it's not forced on you, and it holds about 50,000 research pdfs for me, with tagging, note taking, foldering, and search. It's meant for team science work (I think) but I use it for solitary history writing. Pretty cheap too fwiw
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January 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
If it's helpful, check out Papers (papersapp.com). There's AI bs, but it's not forced on you, and it holds about 50,000 research pdfs for me, with tagging, note taking, foldering, and search. It's meant for team science work (I think) but I use it for solitary history writing. Pretty cheap too fwiw
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My big tent doesn't include transphobes who want children to die. Sorry, not sorry, throw them all into the sun.
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My big tent doesn't include transphobes who want children to die. Sorry, not sorry, throw them all into the sun.
I worked on his Holocaust film, and know some of the historians from this one--as far as I can tell, all of the scholars in the recent decade are supportive. The criticism might be valid vis-a-vis the early ones, but of any doc team I've worked with, they were the most dedicated to getting it right
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I worked on his Holocaust film, and know some of the historians from this one--as far as I can tell, all of the scholars in the recent decade are supportive. The criticism might be valid vis-a-vis the early ones, but of any doc team I've worked with, they were the most dedicated to getting it right
You definitely have a point with Civil War, but I worked on their Holocaust film from 2022, and have never met a team more insistent on accuracy. It was truly impressive, and I'd give their more recent stuff a try.
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You definitely have a point with Civil War, but I worked on their Holocaust film from 2022, and have never met a team more insistent on accuracy. It was truly impressive, and I'd give their more recent stuff a try.
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There are issues we can compromise on! But if you let bigots into the “big tent” you’re actually shrinking it because you’ve just told whole demographics that they’re not really welcome.
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
There are issues we can compromise on! But if you let bigots into the “big tent” you’re actually shrinking it because you’ve just told whole demographics that they’re not really welcome.