The Holocaust History Podcast

Send us Fan Mail How do we uncover new evidence about the Holocaust?  In this podcast episode, we look at the fascinating topic of Holocaust archaeology.  Our guest, Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls has investigated over 50 Holocaust sites including the Treblinka extermination camp where she first identified the location of the gas chamber buildings.   Our conversation ranges from the Soviet Union...

Send us Fan Mail             The Nazis murdered at least 167,000 Jews in the small extermination center of Sobibor located today in far-eastern Poland on the border with Ukraine.  In 2020, an album belonging to the Deputy Commandant, Johann Niemann, surfaced and was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by his family.               This album contains never before seen images of S...

Send us Fan Mail                   What did the US do to rescue Jews from the clutches of the Nazis?  This week we talk with Rebecca Erbelding about the War Refugee Board and American efforts to help those targeted by the Nazis.                     In this discussion, we touch on a lot of important topics including American immigration policy as well as what the US government and public knew about...

Send us Fan Mail How do you write the history of something that never happened?  What were the chances of Nazis creating a Fourth Reich?  And what do our fears of a Nazi resurgence tell us about the past and present.   In this wide-ranging conversation with Gavriel Rosenfeld, we talk about the history of the Fourth Reich, both as a rhetorical device but also as a very real political reality that f...

Send us Fan Mail Approximately 220,000 Romanian Jews died during the Holocaust, but their story is much less well-known.  In this conversation with Grant Harward, we talk about the history of the Holocaust in Romania.  He leads us through a really informative survey of both the history of Romania and the impact it had on the later unfolding of Romania’s attack on Jews in the region.   We look at t...

Send us Fan Mail In his latest book, Omer Bartov notes that “Indicating where the line between truth and fiction lies is difficult, if not impossible, because in certain cases there may be more truth in fiction that in the mere retelling of facts.”    In this our first episode of the podcast, we take a look at what happens when an historian turns to writing fiction about the past.  This was a real...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the podcast! Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod . Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here .