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THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

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Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer

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Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · March 2 · 1h 22m

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Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer - The Holocaust History Podcast It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history).  Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar life, unmarked and uncom...

In this episode, we go back to Babi Yar, the largest open-air shooting of the Holocaust which took place in Kyiv in September 1941.

I talked with Victoria Khiterer about the massacre, bystanders, and the incredible struggle to commemorate this event.

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It's a good question. As I said in the podcast, I think the "ordinary" element Browning was keying on was the idea that they weren't young, Nazi-indoctrinated people and came from a very left-wing city.

Oh, yeah. That whole scene was...as the kids say...cringe.

THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading List:
www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean

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Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · 02/16/2026 · 1h 25m

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Ep. 72- Empathy, Witnessing, and the Challenge of the Holocaust with Carolyn Dean - The Holocaust History Podcast How do we approach witnessing the Holocaust? Are there appropriate or inappropriate ways to do this? Does witnessing make us more empathetic or more indifferent?  These are just some of the quest...

In this episode, I talked with Carolyn Dean about witnessing the Holocaust and empathy. We had a wide-ranging conversaion about the appropriate use of images and also about bystanding and the challenge of indifference.

A LOT to think about!

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An excellent episode, @ankahajkova.bsky.social is the real deal 🙌

THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading List:
www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková

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Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · 02/02/2026 · 1h 26m

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Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková - The Holocaust History Podcast An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project.  For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized...

On this episode, I talked with @ankahajkova.bsky.social about her remarkable book on queer Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us.

Check it out!

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THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading List:
www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

Ep. 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad

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Ep. 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · 01/19/2026 · 1h 19m

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Ep. 70. Women in the Holocaust with Elissa Bemporad - The Holocaust History Podcast How did women experience the Holocaust differently from men?  What do we learn from considering a gender perspective when we look at the past?  How did gender play a role in survival and opp...

How did women experience the Holocaust differently than men? And how does a gendered approach help us to better understand the past?

On the latest episode, I talk with Elissa Bemporad about her work on Jewish women and the Holocaust. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading List:

www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen

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Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · 01/06/2026 · 1h 39m

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Ep. 69- Wehrmacht Chaplains and the Holocaust with Doris Bergen - The Holocaust History Podcast How could one be a man of God in Nazi Germany?  And, especially, how can one minister to the Wehrmacht, itself an instrument of the Nazi state while professing to adhere to Christian morality?&nb...

We are BACK with our first episode of 2026!

I talk with the amazing Doris Bergen about the role of German military chaplains in supporting the Nazi state and their complicity in its crimes.

Check it out!

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THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading List:
www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik

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EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik Podcast Episode · The Holocaust History Podcast · 12/15/2025 · 1h 21m

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EP. 68- Babi Yar: History, Memory, and Literature with Shay Pilnik - The Holocaust History Podcast The mass shooting of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev in September 1941 was the largest open-air shooting of Jews during the Holocaust.  In some ways, it came to stand for the Einsatzgruppen killings tak...

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Babi Yar was the largest open-air shooting during the Holocaust. But efforts to commemorate it were difficult during the Soviet period.

In this episode, I talked with Shay Pilnik about how Soviet writers treated the Babi Yar massacre.
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The folks at Clark University's Strassler Center might should be interested as well!

THHP Reading List | Waitman Wade Beorn Books mentioned in The Holocaust History Podcast

Reading list:
www.waitmanwbeorn.com/thhpreading

Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai

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