Professors Sign Political Statement in Support of Calling Detention Centers in U.S. "Concentration Camps"


INTRODUCTION

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comparison of detention centers at the U.S. southern border to concentration camps used for slave labor during the Holocaust, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement on Holocaust analogies. Their response correctly stated, "We unequivocally reject efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary."

A group of so-called 'scholars' issued a rebuke of the Holocaust Museum's position. In effect, the below signed individuals are endorsing Ocasio-Cortez's position.

"We hope the Museum continues to help scholars establish the Holocaust’s significance as an event from which the world must continue to learn," concluded the so-called scholars.

IMPACT ON HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS & DESCENDANTS

The hurtful and untrue statements put out by so-called scholars who are comparing detention facilities at the southern border to the concentration camps that our family members were murdered causes tremendous heartache for Holocaust survivors and descendants. Many Holocaust survivors, a dwindling population due to age, already suffer from anxiety disorder and PTSD. Descendants of Holocaust survivors are shown in study after study to have altered stress hormones and may, in fact, inherit brain trauma.

Now, the Holocaust survivors and descendants have been subjected to wholly political statements that compare the suffering of Shoah survivors and victims to the difficult and unfortunate situation at the U.S. southern border. The key difference between Holocaust victims and the individuals at the southern border is the concept of choice. Holocaust victims and survivors had no element of choice in their fate -- none -- zero -- zilch.

In response to Ocasio-Cortez's political statement, the organization Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors issued the following statement:

"There is no reason to politicize the Holocaust, but it is no surprise that history deniers and political opportunists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Bernie Sanders will attempt to use the Holocaust to score political points. This is what politicians often do -- mislead the public for political gain.

Americans do not understand much about the Holocaust. It is not taught in our schools and those under 40 have had literally no exposure to the facts of the Holocaust.

It is upsetting to survivors of the Holocaust and victims' family members when the Holocaust is used as a political tool, especially when the media or powerful politicians twist facts about the Holocaust for their own gain.

Hundreds of our family members were murdered in concentration camps. My grandfather survived more than a dozen camps and my grandmother was in a large Jewish ghetto.

The U.S. southern border has no elements of Concentration Camps for the following reasons: 1) Individuals held in detention at the southern border have an element of choice in their fate; 2) Individuals held in detention at the southern border are not forcibly starved; 3) Individuals in detention at the southern border are not forced into slave labor; and 4) Individuals are not put into detention based on race/ethnicity/religion/political views."


THE SIGNATORIES

Below is the published list of individuals who support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's offensive and inaccurate comparison of the detention centers on the southern border to the concentration camps of the Holocaust. It would be interesting to know which group or individual organized this campaign. Obviously anti-semitic forces are at work on America's college campuses, which is one key reason why the rate of anti-semitism is at all-time high in the U.S.

Please be aware of the below-named individuals. I would not send my child to their class or their institution of higher learning. This is not true scholarship but, instead, political propaganda.

Finally, if you have the courage to contact some of these individuals, we always encourage you to confront the antisemites.


Natalia Aleksiun, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College

Claire Andrieu, Professor of Contemporary History, former editor- in-chief of Mass Violence & Resistance, Sciences Po, Paris, France

Emily Abrams Ansari, Associate Professor of Music History, Western University, Canada

Tarik Cyril Amar, Koç University, Former Fellow

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU

Celia Applegate, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Leora Auslander, Professor of Modern European Social History, University of Chicago

Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, University of Akron

Ben Barkow, Director The Wiener Library, London

Omer Bartov, Professor of German Studies, Brown University

Waitman Wade Beorn, Lecturer, Corcoran Department Of History, University of Virginia

Natalie Belsky, Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota-Duluth; Former Sosland Fellow & Hess Seminar Participant 2018

Elissa Bemporad, Associate Professor of East European Jewish History and the Holocaust, Queens College
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Max Bergholz, Associate Professor of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

* David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis

Frank Biess, Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Monica Black, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair and Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Muriel Blaive, Ustav pro studium totalitnich rezimu/Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

Benita Blessing, Instructor, World Languages and Cultures, Oregon State University

Donald Bloxham, Professor of Modern History, University of Edinburgh, UK

Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU

Andrea F. Bohlman, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

James M. Brophy, Professor of History, University of Delaware

Diana Kormos Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History
General Editor & Director, The Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology

Darcy Buerkle, Associate Professor, Department of History, Smith College

Joy H. Calico, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology, Vanderbilt University

Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, University of Calabria, Italy

Karen D. Caplan, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, Newark

Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Brown University; Former Fellow

Michael Casper, University of California-Los Angeles; former Mandel Center Research Fellow

Brigid Cohen, Associate Professor of Music, New York University

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Associate Professor of Modern Polish-Jewish History, Arizona State University

Tim Cole, Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol, UK

Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst

N. D. B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Manuela Consonni, Professor, Pela And Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Seth Cotlar, Professor of History, Willamette University

Stef Craps, Professor of English Literature, Director, Cultural Memory Studies Initiative, Ghent University, Belgium

Brian Crim, Associate Professor of History, John M. Turner Chair in the Humanities Lynchburg University

Sarah Cushman, Northwestern University

Christoph Dieckmann, Research Fellow, University of Bern, Switzerland/ Germany

Daniella Doron, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College

Theodora Dragostinova, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

Elizabeth Drummond, Associate Professor and Chair of History, Loyola Marymount University

Diana Dumitru, Associate Professor of History, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Moldova

Deborah Dwork, Founding Director Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

Hilary Earl, Professor of HIstory, Nipissing University

Astrid M. Eckert, Associate Professor of History, Emory University

Rachel L. Einwohner, Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Political Science, Purdue University

Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University

Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Scott Ferguson, Associate Professor of Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of South Florida

Gabriel Finder, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, University of Virginia


* Eugene Finkel, Associate Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Darcie Fontaine, Associate Professor of History, University of South Florida

Jonathan Friedman, Professor and Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, West Chester University

Kathie Friedman, Associate Professor of International Studies, Jackson School, University of Washington

Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Professor of Music, Ohio State University

Richard E. Frankel, Richard G. Neiheisel Professor in European History, University Of Louisiana, Lafayette

David M. P. Freund, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park

Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

Mary Fulbrook, Professor of German History, University College London (UCL), UK

Alison Furlong, American Religious Sounds Project

Alexandra Garbarini, Professor of History, Williams College

Libby Garland, Associate Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Christian Gerlach, Professor of Modern History, University of Bern, Switzerland

Judith Gerson, Associate Professor, Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

Simone Gigliotti, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Glenda E. Gilmore, Peter V. and C Vann Woodward Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University

Dorota Glowacka, University of King’s College, Canada; former Fellow and Silberman Seminar co-leader

Amos Goldberg, Professor at The Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

L. Janelle Gornick, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute

Jan Grabowski, Professor of History, University of Ottawa; 2016 Ina Levine Invitational Scholar

Ronald Granieri, Army War College

Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University

Julie Greene, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park

Henry Greenspan, Emeritus, University of Michigan

Atina Grossmann, Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union, New York City

Amanda F. Grzyb, Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies, Western University

Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of Modern European History, Loyola University Chicago

* Anna Hajkova, Associate Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK, Ben and Zelda Cohen Fellow 2010

Valerie Hebert, Associate Professor, Lakehead University Orillia, Canada

PD Dr. Susanne Heim, University of Freiburg; Former Fellow at MCAHS

Elizabeth Heineman, Professor of History and of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa

Daniel Kupfert Heller, Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Monash University, Australia
Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

Deborah Hertz, Professor of History, Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies, University of California, San Diego

Benjamin Hett, Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Jim Hicks, Executive Editor, The Massachusetts Review, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Susanne Hillman, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego

Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia Univ.
Professor and Graduate Director, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Columbia Univ.
Director, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University

Dr. Janine Holc, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Loyola University Maryland

Anna Holian, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University

Judith M. Hughes, Professor Emerita of History, University of California, San Diego

Natalia Indrimi, Centro Primo Levi New York

Christian Ingrao, Senior Researcher Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present, CNRS/Universite Paris 8

Paul Jaskot, Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University

* Tomaz Jardim, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University, Canada

Adam Jones, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, European Studies, and History, Vanderbilt University

Jonathan Judaken, Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities, Rhodes College

Robin Judd, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University

Pieter M. Judson, Professor of 19th and 20th Century History, European University Institute, Florence

Irene Kacandes, The Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature

Brett Kaplan, Professor of Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; former Fellow 2009-10

Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History, New York University

Ari Kelman, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Ben Kiernan, A.Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

Adam Knowles, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Drexel University

Anne Knowles, McBride Professor of History, University of Maine

Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine

Alexander Korb, Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Leicester, UK

Jacques Kornberg, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada

Kevin M. Kruse, Professor of History, Princeton University

Thomas Kuhne, Director, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

Regina Kunzel, Doris Stevens Chair and Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University

Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies and Member, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Kenneth F. Ledford, Associate Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University
Chair, Department of History, Co-Director, Max Kade Center for German Studies

Daniel Lee, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, Department of History, University of Sheffield, UK

Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University

Paul Lerner, Professor of History
Director, Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, University of Southern California

Mark Leuchter, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism, Director of Jewish Studies - Department of Religion, Temple University

Laura Levitt, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies and Gender, Temple University

Beth Lew-Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University

Thomas Lindenberger, Professor for Totalitarianism Studies, Hannah Arendt Institute at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Tabea Linhard, Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

David Luebke, Professor of History, University of Oregon

* Aliza Luft, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Daniel H. Magilow, Professor of German, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005-2006 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow

Thomas Maher, Lecturer, Purdue University

Elissa Mailander, Associate Professor of Gender History, History of Violence and Sexuality, Sciences Po Paris

Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York

Kate Manne, Associate Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University

Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

Christopher E. Mauriello, Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Professor of History, Salem State University

* Jared McBride, History Department Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles

* Erin McGlothlin, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis
Associate Professor of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis

Robert Melson, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University

David A. Messenger, Professor and Chair of History, University of South Alabama

Jolanta Mickute, Professor of History, Vilnius University
The Lost Shtetl Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

Karen Miller, Professor of History, LaGuardia Community College
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Guy Miron, Professor of History, Open University of Israel, Israel

Douglas G. Morris, Independent Scholar, Trial Attorney, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.

Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History, University of Sydney, Australia

Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History, Yale University

Devin Naar, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Washington

Norman Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University

Stephen Naron, Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University

Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Christian Axboe Nielsen, Associate Professor of History and Human Security, Aarhus University, Denmark

Bernhard Nickel, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Carl Nightingale, Professor of Urban and World History, Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo

* Andrea Orzoff, Associate Professor of History and Honors, New Mexico State University

Troy Paddock, Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University

Katrin Paehler, Associate Professor of History, Illinois State University; former Fellow 2001, Silberman Seminar Participant 2012 & 2019

Avinoam Patt, Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History, Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford

Devin Pendas, Professor of History, Boston College

Emily Richmond Pollock, Associate Professor of Music and Theater Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kim Christian Priemel, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Oslo

Patrice G. Poutrus, Research Fellow, Universität Erfurt, Germany

Renee Poznanski, Head, The Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies,
Yaacov and Poria Avnon Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Ben Gurion University

Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

Ian Reifowitz, Professor of Historical Studies, S.U.N.Y.-Empire State College

Michael Riff, Director, The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Jennifer L. Rodgers, Research Assistant Professor of History

Aron Rodrigue, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

Sven-Erik Rose, Associate Professor of German and of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis

Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Warren Rosenblum, Professor of History, Politics, and International Relations, Webster University

Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

Sandrine Sanos, Professor of Modern European History, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi

Debarati Sanyal, Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley

Derek Sayer, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and (by courtesy) History, University of Alberta, Canada

Florian Scheding, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol, UK

Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research, The Wiener Library, London.

Raz Segal, Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University

Scott J. Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

James J. Sheehan, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Stanford University

Noah Shenker, N. Milgrom & 6a Foundation Senior Lecturer, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University

* David Shneer, Professor of History and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder

Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University

Daniel J. Schroeter, Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History, University of Minnesota, Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Fellowship

Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

* Lewis Siegelbaum, Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Michigan State University

Sara Silverstein, Assistant Professor of History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut

Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Connecticut

* Helene Sinnreich, Director Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

William Smaldone, E. J. Whipple Professor of History, Willamette University

Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University

Leo Spitzer, Vernon Professor of History, Emeritus, Dartmouth College

Martha Sprigge, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of History and former Director of Jewish Studies, Kent State University

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair of Sephardic Studies
Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Sybille Steinbacher, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 2012-13 Ina Levine Inviational Scholar

Alexandra Steinlight, Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Oren Baruch Stier, Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University
Director, Holocaust and Genocide Studies & Jewish Studies Certificate Program, Florida International University

Alexa Stiller, University of Bern; Former Fellow, MCAHS Workshop Leader

Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director, Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Jelena Subotic, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University

Annette Timm, Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada

* Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History
Director, Jewish Studies Program, Wake Forest University

J. David Velleman, Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, New York University

Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor of Modern European History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

* Anika Walke, Associate Professor of History and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Ulrike Weckel, Professor of History in the Media and in the Public, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Joanne Weiner Rudof, Archivist Emeritus, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University

Alice Weinreb, Associate Professor of Modern History, Loyola University Chicago

Gary Weissman, Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty member of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati

Eric D. Weitz, Distinguished Professor of History, City College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Rebecca Wittmann, Chair, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada

* Diane Wolf, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Yoke-Sum Wong, Managing Editor, Journal of Historical Sociology, Alberta University of the Arts, Canada

Jamie L. Wraight, Director, The Voice/Vision Holocaust Oral History Archive, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

Stephenie Young, Faculty Research Associate at the Salem State University Center for Holocaust
Genocide Studies and Professor of English, Salem State University

Tara Zahra, Homer J. Livingston Professor of History, University of Chicago

Jonathan Zasloff, Professor of Law, University of California Los Angeles

Steven Zipperstein, The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University

Additional signatures 1 July 2019

Andrew Denning, Associate Professor of History, University of Kansas

Amanda Minervini, Assistant Professor, Italian Studies, Colorado College

Sr. Cyndi Nienhaus, CSA, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Religious Education, Marian University (Wisconsin)

Leslie Morris, Professor of German, University of Minnesota

Frances Glazer Sternberg, Lecturer, Jewish Studies Program, University of Kansas

Janet Golden, Ph.D. Rutgers Camden, Emerita, Historian

Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

Bryant Simon, Professor of History, Temple University

Alan Brill, Cooperman/Ross Endowed Professor in honor of Sister Rose Thering, Seton Hall University

Daniel Blatman, The Max and Rita Haber professor in Contemporary Jewry and Holaocaut Studies
Head, The Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alexandru Muraru, PhD, Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science, University of Iasi, Romania

Charles King, Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University

Steven Leonard Jacobs, Professor of Religious Studies & Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, The University of Alabama

Laura S. Lieber, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Studies, Duke University

James Maffie, Senior Lecturer, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Jan Claas Behrends, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam
Lecturer in East European History at Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

Kevin M. Schultz, Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Debra L. Schultz, Assistant Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY

Peter Bugge, Associate Professor of Central European Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark

Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston

Alana M. Vincent, Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion, and Imagination, University of Chester

Denisa Nestakova, Research Associate, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany

Faith Hillis, Associate Professor of Russian History, University of Chicago

Lila Corwin Berman, Professor of History, Director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University

John McNeill, Professor of History and University Professor, Georgetown University

Joel Berkowitz, Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature
Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Hana Kubatova, Assistant Professor, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Memory

Jennifer Thompson, Associate Professor, Maurice Amado Professor of Applied Jewish Ethics and Civic Engagement, California State University, Northridge

Tobias Hof, Privatdozent for Modern History, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Mount Holyoke College

Gary D. Grossman, Professor of Animal Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, USA; Schusterman Fellow, JNF Fellow

Steven Seegel, Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado

Terrence G. Peterson, Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University

Thomas White, Associate Director, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

Danny M. Cohen, Distinguished Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University

Amanda Minervini, Assistant Professor, Italian Studies, Colorado College

Curits Richardson, Research Fellow, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rachel Deblinger, Director of Documenting Global Voices Project, University of California, Los Angeles

Walter D. Greason, Dean Emeritus, The Honors School
Chair and Associate Professor, Educational Counseling and Leadership, Monmouth University

Jazmine Contreras, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota

Melissa Bokovoy, Chair and Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Professor of History, Director of Judaic Studies Program, Fairfield University (grosenfeld@fairfield.edu).

Anna Veronica Pobbe, PhD-candidate University of Trento, Italy, IFZ Fellow 2019

Martin Kavka, Professor, Department of Religion, Florida University

Liora Gubkin, Professor of Religious Studies
Director Institute for Religion, Education, and Public Policy, California State University, Bakersfield

Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Shana Sippy, Assistant Professor of Religion, Centre College/Danville, KY

Olga Kartashova, PhD candidate, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University

Laura J. Hilton, Professor of History, Muskingum University

Alana Holland, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Kansas

Kimberly E. Zarecor, Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University

David A. Meola, Bert & Fanny Meisler Assistant Professor of History
Director, Holocaust Studies Program, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Dawn Skorczewski, Research Professor of English, Brandeis University

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, Leon Levine Distinguished Professor
Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University, NC

Frances Tanzer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University

Joshua B. Friedman, Perilman Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University

Roland Spickermann, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Permian Basin

Estibalitz Ezkerra Vegas, Lecturer, Basque Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Deborah Barton, University of Montreal, Canada

Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada

Nitzan Lebovic, Associate Professor of History, Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values, Lehigh University, PA

Dan J. Puckett. Chair, Alabama Holocaust Commission, Professor of History, Troy University

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Institute of Technology, Berlin, Germany

Dominique Kirchner Reill, Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Miami

Melissa Kravetz, Associate Professor of History, Longwood University

Alexandra van Doren, PhD, Deparment of Comparative Literature
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Scholar; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Alexander Karn, Associate Professor of History, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Colgate University

Yasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

Naomi S. Taub, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor and Director of Human Rights Studies, University of California, Davis

Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas

Johanna Mellis, Assistant Professor of World History, Ursinus College

Amber N. Nickell, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Purdue University

Ann Millin, Ph.D., Historian (Retired), Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor, Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton University

Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University

Debra Guckenheimer, PhD, Lecturer, Sociology and Human Development, California State University, East Bay

John MacKay, Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film and Media Studies, Yale University

Ben Ratskoff, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

Jonathan Beecher Field, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University

Lily Geismer, Associate Professor of History , Claremont McKenna College

Samara Hutman, Former Executive Director, Los Angeles Museum of The Holocaust, 2013-2016

David Slucki, Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
co-director of Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, College of Charleston

Judith Greenberg, Adjunct Faculty, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University

Anson Rabinbach, Phillip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Eitus, Princeton University

Ronit Y. Stahl, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Hasia Diner, Professor of History and of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
(Note: Ms. Diner is also a supporter of the Boycott Israel/BDS movement.)

Mark B. Cole, College Associate Lecturer, Cleveland State University

Julien Gorbach, Assistant Professor in the School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Dr. Christine Beresniova, Executive Director, South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Instructor of Anthropology, Ashford University

Daniel Unowsky, Professor of History, University of Memphis

Heather Ferguson, Associate Professor of Middle East/Ottoman History, Claremont McKenna College

Eva Mroczek, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of California, Davis

Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University

Michal Aharony, Editor, The Journal of Holocaust Research,
Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa

Samuel Kassow, Northam Professor of History, Trinity College

Paul A. Levine, Independent scholar, Berlin; co-founder, The Uppsala University Programme for Holocaust & Genocide Research

Irena Klepfisz, retired, Barnard College, New York

David A. Goldfarb, Independent Scholar, formerly Barnard College, New York

Rachel Rothstein, Independent Scholar

Adam Muller, Professor and Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada

Sebastian Wogenstein, Interim Director, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life
Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut

Michaela Raggam-Blesch, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria

Mark Baker, Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia

David Henkin, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Kathleen Wroblewski, Assistant Professor of History, Missouri State University

Rebecca Scott, Adjunct Professor of History

Michael D. Miller, Independent Scholar, Author of biographical encyclopedias on the senior perpetrators of the Holocaust, San Francisco

Dora Apel, Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Wayne State University

Joseph E. Jensen, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor. Georgetown University

Michał J. Wilczewski, Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Padraic Kenney, Professor of History and International Studies, Indiana University

Burkhard Henke, Professor of German, Davidson College

Eve Levin, Ahmanson-Murphy Professor of History, University of Kansas

Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

Stephanie Pridgeon, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Bates College

Kenneth Waltzer, Professor of History Emeritus, James Madison College, Michigan State University

Jill Massino, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Neringa Latvyte-Gustaitiene, Phd Candidate, Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University

Alan Singer, Senior Lecturer in European History, Honors College, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jordana Silverstein, ARC Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

Caitlin Murdock, Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach.

Emily Sample, Executive Director, Genocide Prevention Program, George Mason University

Teresa Bergman, Professor of Communication, University of the Pacific

David Helps, PhD Student, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Cassandra Painter, Valparaiso University

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies, University of Washington, Seattle

Erin Hochman, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University

Anastasia Mann, historian, School of Public and International and Affairs, Princeton University

Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Matthew P Fitzpatrick, Professor of International History, Flinders University

Leslie M. Waters, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, El Paso; former Fellow

Andrew Joseph Pegoda, Ph.D., Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program, University of Houston

Karen Auerbach, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

David Abraham, Professor, University of Miami, School of Law

Kate Ferguson, Chair of Policy, European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, University of Leeds

Fabien Theofilakis, Assistant Professor, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, University of Paris 1 Pantheon

Randall Goldberg, Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Dana School of Music, Youngstown State University

Yuliya Komska, Associate Professor of German Studies, Dartmouth College

James Berger, Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University

James W. Oberly, Emeritus Professor of HIstory, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Benjamin T Jones, Lecturer in History, Central Queensland University, Australia

George Williamson, Department of History, Florida State University

Judy Margles, Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Dora Apel, Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Wayne State University

Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University

Steven M. Wasserstrom, Moe and Izetta Tonkin Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities, Reed College

Dorian Stuber, Isabelle Peregrin Odyssey Professor of English, Hendrix College

Carroll P. Kakel, III Lecturer, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music, New York University

Douglas Sackman, University of Puget Sound

Additional Signatories 2 July 2019

Lauren Stokes, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Carlos Aguirre, Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon
Lawrence Baron, Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University

Cynthia Haynes, Professor of English, Clemson University


Marcia Sachs Littell, Professor Emeritus, Stockton University

Martin D. Brown, Lead Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia

Idit Gil, Academic director of Democracy Studies, M.A Program, the Open University, Israel

Neal M. Rosendorf, Associate Professor of International Relations History, New Mexico State University

Olga Bertelsen, Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies, Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence

Charlotte Schallié, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Victoria, Canada

Claire Launchbury, Associate Researcher, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, UK

Leah Garrett, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York

Gina Schouten, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Anthony McElligott, MRIA, Professor of History, University of Limerick, Ireland

Hannah Holtschneider, Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK

Joanne Pettitt, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Kent, UK

Andy Pearce, Associate Professor in Holocaust and History Education, University College London, UK

Nicholas K. Johnson, Deputy Head, Center for German-American Educational History University of Munster, Germany

Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York

Irena Sumi, Anthropologist, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Benjamin L. Alpers, Associate Professor, Honors College, University of Oklahoma

Sarah Knott, Associate Professor of History, Indiana University

Jennifer Siegel, Professor of History, The Ohio State University

Luis-Manuel Garcia, Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology, University of Birmingham, UK

Francis Lowenthal, (Honorary) Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of Mons, Belgium

Jennifer Dowling, University of Sydney, Australia

Benjamin Thomas White, Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow, UK

Paul R. Bartrop, Professor of History/Director, Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University

Dr. James Waller, Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

Dr. Kimberly Allar, Clinical Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University
Co-Director, Online World War II Studies, Arizona State University

Dr. Dana Smith, Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College

Scott Denham, Charles A. Dana Professor of German Studies, Davidson College
E. Craig Wall, Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities, Davidson College

Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University

Shirli Gilbert, University of Southampton, UK; USHMM Fellow 2005

Hugh LeCaine Agnew, Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Jonathon Catlin, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Princeton University

Eve Zucker, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Devorah Romanek, Curator of Exhibits, The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM

Avril Alba, Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation, University of Sydney, Australia

Paul Steege, Associate Professor of History, Faculty Director, Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, Villanova University

Timothy Scott Brown, Professor and Chair of History, Northeastern University

Anne P. Hubbell, Professor, Department of Communication Studies, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, Associate Prof. of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Nancy Berg, Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Washington University in St. Louis

Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University; lectured at USHMM

Audrey Kichelewski, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Strasbourg University, France

John Miller, Technology Librarian, Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative, Mankato, MN

Dr Akil N Awan, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Political Violence & Terrorism, Royal Holloway, University of London

Steven High, Professor of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Tom Lawson, Professor of History and Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, UK

Dr. Ned Richardson-Little, Nachwuchsgruppenleiter, University of Erfurt, Germany

Steffen Jost, Head of Education Department, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany

Elizabeth Vlossak, Associate Professor of History, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada

Tiffany N. Florvil, Assistant Professor of History, University of New Mexico

Katherine Roseau, Assistant Professor of French, Mercer University

Jeff Rutherford, Associate Professor of History, Wheeling Jesuit University

Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK,

Jacob Ari Labendz, Clayman Assistant Professor, Youngstown State University
Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies, Youngstown State University

Charles Walker, MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Global Human Rights, University of California, Davis

Melinda Landeck, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Austin College

Lisa Todd, Associate Professor of History, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Richard Ivan Jobs, Professor of History, Pacific University

Roxanne Panchasi, Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Philipp Stelzel, Assistant Professor of History, Duquesne University

Zuzana Sihelnikova, PhD student, Department of Mediamatics and Cultural Heritage, University of Zilina, Slovakia

Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Associate Professor of History, Texas State University

Andrew Dell'Antonio, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Musicology The University of Texas at Austin

Samantha Clarke, PhD Candidate, Department of History, McMaster University, Canada

Michael Zank, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Medieval Studies, Boston University
Director, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University

Peter Schweppe, Assistant Professor of German Studies and History, Montana State University

William Glenn Gray, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

Rebecca P. Scales, Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology

Celia E. Rabinowitz, Dean of Mason Library, Keene State College

Neil Levi, Professor and Chair of English, Drew University

James Retallack, University Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada

Nancy Harrowitz, Professor of Italian and Jewish Studies, Boston University
Director of the Minor in Holocaust, Genocide and Human Right Studies, Boston University

Janice Matsumura, Associate Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jeff Rice, Senior Lecturer, Political Science, Northwestern University

Boris B. Gorshkov, Lecturer in History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Daniel P. Reynolds, Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, Grinnell College

Leslie A. Schwalm, Professor of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa

Dr. des. Andrea Erkenbrecher, Freelance historian, Karlsruhe, Germany

David Marshall, Professor of History, Suffolk County Community College

John Paul Newman, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History, Maynooth University

Sam Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Religious Studies and of Jewish Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Mita Choudhury, Professor of History, Vassar College

Mary Nolan, Professor of History emerita, New York University

Jason Johnson, Associate Professor of History, Trinity University

Kathryn Julian, Visiting Lecturer in History, Maryville College

Christopher A. Molnar, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, Flint

Samuel Clowes Huneke, Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University

Meghan O'Donnell, Senior Lecturer of Political and Social History, California State University, Monterey Bay

M. Kathryn Edwards, Assistant Professor of History, Tulane University

Kai M. Thaler, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Trevor A. Purvis, Assistant Professor, Department of Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Carole Lemee, Dr. Anthropologist, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Université Bordeaux, France

Anthony D. Kauders, Professor of Modern History, Keele University, United Kingdom

Lisa Kirschenbaum, Professor of History, West Chester University

Erica Fagen, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Angela West, Drew University, MA., Ph.D. Candidate, specializing in Holocaust & Genocide Studies

Elizabeth Strauss, Assistant Professor of History, Mount St. Mary's University

Julia Bruggemann, Professor of History, DePauw University, Indiana

Elizabeth Harrington Lambert, Ph.D., Grand Valley State University; former Fellow 2006

Andrew Altman, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

Valerie Deacon, Clinical Assistant Professor of History, New York University, Shanghai

Adam A. Blackler, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wyoming

Anna Lind-Guzik, Judith S. Kaye Fellow, Historical Society of the New York Courts, Bard High School Early College, New York

Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University

Rachel Applebaum, Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University

Heather R. Perry, Associate Professor of History; University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Sheer Ganor, Visiting Fellow in the History of Migration, German Historical Institute West

Shawn Clybor, History Teacher at Dwight-Englewood School

Lisa Marcus, Professor of English;
Chair, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University

Russell Arben Fox, Professor of Political Science, Friends University, Wichita, KS

Corey L. Twitchell, Assistant Professor of German, Southern Utah University

Ari Kohen, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice in the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Martina Cucchiara, Associate Professor of History, Bluffton University

Claire M. Hubbard-Hall, Senior Lecturer in History, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK

Nadia Rubaii, Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Michael Berghoef, Professor of Social Work, Ferris State University

Linda E Feldman, Associate Professor of German (retired), University of Windsor, Canada

Margaret Olin, Senior Research Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, Yale University

Edyta Gawron, Assistant Professor, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

James McAuley, Ph.D., University of Oxford; USHMM Writing Fellow 2015-2016

Cristina A. Bejan, Duke University; USHMM Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellow 2009

Guillaume de Syon, Professor of History, Albright College; Hess fellow 2005

Matthew Unangst, Assistant Professor of History, Jacksonville University

Brian K. Feltman, Associate Professor of History, Georgia Southern University

Jennifer L. Foray, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

Michelle Kelso, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, George Washington University

Aviel Roshwald, Professor of History, Georgetown University

Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University

Imani Danielle Mosley, Assistant Professor of Music, Wichita State University

Mikkel Dack, Professor of History, Rowan University
Director of Research, Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Rowan University

Gerald J. Steinacher, Professor of History/Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Timothy Scott Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi

Jane Ellsworth, Professor of Music History, Eastern Washington University

Keith Pomakoy, Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, State University of New York, Sullivan

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