Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis

Contributors

595 Contributors Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke is senior researcher and head of the Research Unit in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. She was visiting professor and Fulbright scholar-in-residence at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University during the fall of 2010 and a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute at New York University in October 2007. Yehuda Bauer was born in Prague and moved to Israel with his family in 1939. He has spent his life as a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is the former director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and now serves as its academic advisor. He is the author of many books, including Jews for Sale?, The Impact of the Holocaust, A History of the Holocaust, and Rethinking the Holocaust. Steven Bowman is currently professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Recipient of several Fulbright and NEH awards, he was recently Miles Lerman Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. His publications include The Jews of Byzantium, 1204–1453, Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece, and most recently The Agony of Greek Jewry during World War II. Nathan Bracher is professor of French at Texas A&M University. For the past fifteen years, he has focused on the ways in which French writers, intellectuals , and media narrate the past. In addition to codirecting seven NEH Summer Seminars on the legacy of World War II in France, he has published numerous articles and two books in the field: Through the Past Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac’s “Bloc-notes” and After the Fall: War and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky’s “Suite française.” 596 Contributors Debórah Dwork is Rose Professor of Holocaust History and the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University . Among Dwork’s many award-winning publications are Children with a Star and three volumes cowritten with Robert Jan van Pelt: Auschwitz; Holocaust : A History; and Flight From the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933–1946. Tuvia Friling is a senior research fellow at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2003–04 he served as vice-chairman of the “International Commission of the Holocaust in Romania,” which was headed by Elie Wiesel. In 2009, he was awarded the “Cultural Merit Award in Rank of Commander” by Romanian President Traian Basescu. Among his many publications are Arrow in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust; An Answer to a Post-Zionist Colleague ; The Israelis and the Holocaust; “Who Are You, Leon Berger?” The Story of a Kapo in Auschwitz, History, Memory and Politics. Esther Gitman, as a toddler, managed to escape with her mother in August 1941 from Nazi- and Ustase-occupied Sarajevo into the Italian Zone of Occupation on the Adriatic. For decades, she gave little thought to her survival, but in 1999 she left her successful business to pursue a Ph.D. in Jewish history at the City University of New York. In 2002 she was awarded a Fulbright grant to Croatia and in 2005 she received her Ph.D. from CUNY. She is the author of When Courage Prevailed: Rescue and Survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia , 1941–1945. Patrick Henry received his Ph.D. in French from Rice University. He taught at Whitman College 1976–2002. Since his retirement, he has taught courses on the literature and film of the Holocaust and on the literature of peace. His most recent book is We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust , which was published in France in 2010 as La Montagne des Justes. He has been a speaker for the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous since 2000. Ştefan Ionescu received his Ph.D. from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History, at Clark University. He teaches at the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Department of History, at Chapman University. His most recent publication is, “Implementing the Romanianization of Employment in 1941 Bucharest: Bureaucratic and Economic Sabotage of the ‘Aryanization’ of the Romanian Economy,” in Thomas Kühne and Tom Lawson, eds., The Holocaust and Local History. 597 Contributors Gábor Kádár is the senior researcher of the Hungarian Jewish Archives. He...