Biographies of Contributors

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is Research Associate at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam). She received her Ph.D. in Russian history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and has taught at several universities. Among many fellowships and awards, she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2000–2001), and in 2002 she received the Distinguished Contribution to Slavic Studies Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Dr. Grimsted is the West's leading authority on archives of the former Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the other Soviet successor states. She is the author or editor of several historical monographs, documentary publications, and directories, and many studies on Soviet-area archives, including Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russian edition, 1997; English edition, 2000). She has written widely on World War II displaced cultural treasures, including the monograph Trophies of War and Empire: The Archival Legacy of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution (2001). Her numerous other activities include direction of ArcheoBiblioBase, a collaborative electronic directory project with the Federal Archival Service of Russia, the National Committee on Archives of Ukraine, and the International Institute of Social History.

Erich Haberer received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is Associate Professor of Modern German History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He has served as Chief Historian of the Canadian Justice Department's war crimes unit. His publications include "The German Police and Genocide in Belorussia" ( Journal of Genocide Research 2, nos. 1–3 [2001]), as well as Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia (1995 [2004 pbk.]). He is working on a monograph on the German gendarmerie and the Holocaust in rural Belorussia and Ukraine.

Francis R. Nicosia is Professor of History at Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he teaches courses on modern Europe, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. In 2000–01, he held a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Archival Research at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985 and 2000), and co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000). He edited two volumes in the Archives of the Holocaust series (1990), and has co-edited books on the German resistance to Hitler (1990), and on the medical establishment (2002), business and industry (2004), and the arts (forthcoming, 2006) in Nazi Germany. His scholarly articles include six essays published over the years in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. He is completing a book entitled Useful Enemies: Zionism and Antisemitism in Germany, 1890–1941.

Rebecca Rovit is a theater historian whose Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Documents, Texts, Memoirs (1999), co-edited with Alvin Goldfarb, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her publications on contemporary German theater, the Jüdische Kulturbund theater in Nazi Germany, and the theatrical activity of inmate artists during the Holocaust have appeared in American Theater, TDR, Theatre Survey, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. Her contributions to international symposia and exhibitions have been published as "Jewish Theatre: Repertory and Censorship in the Jüdischer Kulturbund, Berlin," in John London, ed., Theatre under the Nazis (2000); "A Carousel of Theatrical Performances in Theresienstadt," in Anne D. Dutlinger, ed., Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941–45 (2001); and "Theatrical Performance in Auschwitz: A Concert of Words," in David Mickenberg, Corinne Granoff, and Peter Hayes, eds., The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz (2003). She organized a workshop and panel presentation "Culture within Ghetto Settings: Europe 1933–1945" at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in 2001. In 2004 she was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (Deutcher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, DAAD) grant to conduct research in Berlin on the...