On Wednesday, April 22 HEFNU hosted Sam Huneke (George Mason University) to speak about his recent publication, “I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany.” Drawing on a decade of archival research, Huneke explores how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived under Nazi rule.

Call for Applications: HEFNU Regional Institute: Charleston Details and application requirements can be found here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r... Application Deadline: November 1, 2026

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event Holocaust Literatures: A Comparative Approach planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641764 Featuring Victoria Aarons, Jonathan Druker, Ariane Santerre, and Sue Vice Please join us! Monday, May 11 10 AM PT/12 PM CT/1 PM ET Online Only | Registration required

"'Thirst is dreadful, worse than hunger': Dehydration, Despair, and Death in the Holocaust," featuring Ed Westermann (Northwestern University) Wednesday, May 13, 5–7 PM Harris Hall, Room 108 In-Person Only | Reception to Follow More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641469

Call for Applications: Seminar Participant Applications hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-... Lessons & Legacies XVIII Chicago, Illinois 12-15 November 2026 Submission Deadline: 04 May 2026 (11:59 PM Pacific Time)

HEFNU congratulates the recipients of our 2026-2027 Academic Year Teaching Grants. More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...

Public Lecture: "I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany," featuring Sam Huneke (George Mason University) planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/640719 Wednesday, April 22 | 5:00-7:00 PM | Harris Hall, Room 108 In-Person Only | Open to the Public | Reception to Follow

Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues: ‘Race’, Whiteness, and Holocaust Refugees in the Colonial World Registration: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Tuesday, April 14, 2026 9AM PT/11AM CT/ 12 PM Eastern Time

We have extended the Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grant deadline - APPLY NOW! Deadline: Sunday, March 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time) More information here: hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

We have extended the Summer Institute Application Deadline - APPLY NOW! Deadline: Sunday, February 15 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time) More information here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n... Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026

Annual Winter Lecture “The Nazi Transport of 440 Romani Women and Girls from Austria’s Burgenland in June 1939: A Microhistory” Featuring Tiarra Maznick (Northwestern University) More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638521

The Winter 2026 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...

HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues "New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory" Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 11 AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET Registration is required:  northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

APPLY NOW! SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2026, 11:59 PM PST hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo... HEFNU awards Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grants each year to support research related to the Holocaust.

APPLY NOW! hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n... Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization – Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026 Application Deadline: Sunday, February 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)

This Giving Tuesday, please consider giving a donation to the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU). HEFNU supports and advances Holocaust Research and Education at institutions of higher learning. Please donate today at: hef.northwestern.edu/support/.

HEFNU's inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference took place from 6-9 November 2025. HEFNU thanks the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University for co-sponsoring the Conference and hosting it in Worcester, MA, USA.

“Family and the Global History of the Holocaust,” Lecture & Lunch featuring Jan Láníček Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/635430 Friday, November 21, 12-2 PM | Harris Hall, Room 108

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) is accepting proposals for Academic Year 2026-2027 Teaching Grants. More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach... SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8 December 2025, 11:59 PM PST

Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues Series: “Confinement, Deportation, and Transit” Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Please join us! Tuesday, November 18 12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern Time, USA) Online Only | Registration Required

Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture "Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction" Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis) More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/631594

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Comparative Approaches to Holocaust Geographies Learn more here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632900 Wednesday, October 29, 12:00-1:00 PM (CST) Online Only | Registration required

HEFNU is excited to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau, co-edited by HEFNU director Sarah M. Cushman along with Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams. A purchase link for the book with a 20% discount is available here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Virtual Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

HEFNU’s 29th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held from June 22 to July 4, saw another wonderful cohort of Fellows. Learn more about our annual Summer Institute here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...

Apply Now! HEFNU Regional Institute: Los Angeles HEFNU and Loyola Marymount University are pleased to announce the Regional Institute “Acts of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-survivor World.” Details and application requirements can be found here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r...

Call for Papers: LESSONS & LEGACIES XVIII HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities International Conference on the Holocaust hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-... 12-15 November 2026 (Thursday–Sunday) Chicago, Illinois Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025

The Summer 2025 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle... Featuring Monique Balbuena, Daniel Greene, Maja Kruse, and Alexandria N. Ruble #hefnu #holocauststudies #holocausteducation #newsletter

On Tuesday, May 6, HEFNU hosted our annual Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies, “Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera.” Thank you, Jennifer Evans, for joining us at Northwestern!

We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the HEFNU Sharon Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust. More information about this year’s recipients can be found on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...

HEFNU Series on Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues What is Nazism? What is Fascism? (Online Roundtable) Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time) Registration is required: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Emerging Scholars Program (Online Only) “Alternatives to Academia (“Alt-Ac”) in Holocaust Studies” Wednesday, May 14th, 11am-1pm EST Featuring Dr. Susan Perlman (USHMM) and Dr. Ian Rich (Wiener Holocaust Library) More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628795

"Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera" Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies featuring Jennifer V. Evans (Carleton University) Tuesday, May 6, 5–7 PM Harris Hall, Room 108 In-Person Only | Reception to Follow planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628149

New Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues “The Dynamics of Nazi Propaganda: Mass Media, Gender, and Individual Content Creation” (Online Roundtable) Thursday, April 17, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time) Registration is required: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628148

Opportunity of Interest (not a program of HEFNU) Please join us this Thursday, March 20, as HEFNU director, Sarah Cushman, presents on “Women in Auschwitz” as part of the United Nations Outreach Programme on the Holocaust. Online Only | Register Here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cfc3d2...

Online Roundtable Discussion: "Postmemorial Constellations in Socialist and Postsocialist Holocaust Literature" Thursday, April 3 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST | Online Only Find more information, including the registration link, here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/627246

HEFNU congratulates the recipients of our 2026-2026 Academic Year Teaching Grants. Teaching grants help faculty launch new courses related to the Holocaust or enhance institutional resources to reinforce such courses. More information can be found here: hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...

On February 20, we hosted our annual Winter Lecture, “The Intoxication of Killing: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany.” We welcomed Ed Westermann, who explored how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant in the Holocaust.

Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: "Gender and the Holocaust" Tuesday, March 11 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST Online Only | Registration Required planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/626479 Featuring Marion Kaplan, Björn Krondorfer, Na'ama Shik, and Helen Sinnreich

Please join us this Thursday for our annual Winter Lecture, "The Intoxication of Killing," featuring Ed Westermann. February 20 | 5-7 PM Central Time In-Person only | Open to the Public | Reception to Follow. hef.northwestern.edu/events/

On 25 Feb at 6pm, my esteemed colleague Prof Anita Norich will give an in-person public talk in London at UCL on "Yiddish Choices: Before, During, and After the Holocaust." Open to the public, but pre-registration required. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...

HEFNU is excited to co-sponsor this Online Roundtable Discussion: "Gendered Translations of the Holocaust." Please join us on February 13 at 12 PM Eastern Time. More information here, including registration information, here: hef.northwestern.edu/events/