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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