I’m sorry, no. I understand the actual origin of the swastika and I also understand its continued use in South Asia, but you cannot actually be serious with this take about its use in the United States.

Here the whole flyer

I have a book cover! After years of work, "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" is available for pre-order. It will ship in March and the official release date is set for April 2026. I can't wait to share this important history and hear from readers!

Its #MosseWednesday! Join us on Zoom for Kathryn L. Brackney’s talk, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness” on September 15th. Register here: go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/brackn... — @chadgibbs101.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #UWHistdept #UWpress

Check out the work of my amazing student Leah Davenport and the Landsmann family story!

CfP | Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Chapel Hill, organizes a conference on American Jewish Landscapes Since October 7th | April 19-20, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline for proposals: July 31, 2025

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June 11, 1942 Herbert Baum commits suicide in custody. A resistance fighter against National Socialism and a central figure of the "Herbert Baum Group," which was predominantly composed of Jewish youth. #otd #history #resistance

I returned my book copy edits to the press! Summer currently moving along like it’s supposed to.

5,500 !! I’m just guessing that means I’ve walked over a few of these.

Wow. One of our community members in Charleston was once CEO of the company I’m told.

Those are anti-popes

Perfection

I’m in.

Oh here we go, they sent me the copy edits for my book tonight. Not going to let myself open that on a Friday night!

Send help, it’s so ugly here.

📖 New article online! 'Placing Women in the Revolt: Gender and the History and Memory of Resistance at Treblinka', by Chad S. A. Gibbs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The #Holocaust was the first widely photographed mass atrocity. #LastSeen project collects images of Nazi deportations (1938–1945), often the last photos of victims—some even taken by Jewish individuals. https://buff.ly/3EdyAna (Wolf Gruner @dornsife.usc.edu) 🗃️ #HolocaustRememberanceDay

New article out this morning! This is the first work of any length to explore the acts of women in resistance at Treblinka. If you need any help with access, let me know.

The South is having a moment.

RIP Bob Uecker…national treasure 🙏

Happy holidays to all! Having a great Christmas break in Vienna.

We’re officially on vacation.

The funny thing about BlueSky for me is that I already have 1.3k followers mostly from starter packs. After years on the other place I had 1.7k bc I once went viral for trashing a movie / once got in the press bc I called out the libertarian party for sick joke post about the Holocaust.

Ten! Just ten more exams to grade and the semester is over! Give me strength.

This is a very important, little understood aspect of most fascist movements.

Happy Kaboom Day! Today is the 18th anniversary (HOW?) of the day I was wounded in Iraq. Thinking of my guys SGT Craig Andreas and now-SFC Scott Hannivig -- hope you both have a great day.

Well behind on writing an ed. vol. chapter that’s giving me fits, I woke up today and knocked out several pages. On a totally different project. Ugh.

Here’s @waitmanwbeorn.com’s starter pack for Holocaust and genocide scholars. All worth a follow!

As lots of friends and colleagues continue to join Blueskey, you might find this ‘starter pack’ of people working in Holocaust and genocide studies useful. Put together by the indefatigable @waitmanwbeorn.com go.bsky.app/7mxC2NF

Hello! Many new folks here, I think because I’m on a few lists. I’m a Holocaust studies prof in the American south. I write about resistance at Treblinka and should have my book out in 2025. I’m interested in resistance, gender, and spatial studies. Also posts about politics and cats.

Not an exhaustive list, but we're all likely exhausted.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

I just got back incredibly positive reader reports on my book! We’re on the way!

In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The Nazi party's 1933 book burnings destroyed his life’s work.

“The genocide of Jews, was engineered and executed by humans for human reasons, and anything done by humans can be repeated" - Yehuda Bauer. We see this reality when examining what Treblinka was, regardless of Nazi conceptions of what it was supposed to be. #HolocaustEducation "Spaces of Treblinka"

We had a full house last night for Jacob Flaws and his incredible new book “Spaces of Treblinka.” This is definitely one you should pick up!

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

Btw, all history PhD students are an automatic follow for me. Say hi or remind me to follow back if I missed you!

You know I’m just out of practice when it comes to posting? I’ve spent the last couple years refusing to engage at the other place.

Well I’m back here and deleted the bird account for good. Thanks for so many new follows. Please recommend more historians and Holocaust researchers!

I can’t wait to lead this study abroad next summer!

Grades submitted. Five semesters down, 35 to go.

Thoughts and prayers for the incoming undergrad who somehow managed to access the main faculty listserv email and messaged the entire college that they’d like to enroll in French 101. Cheers also to all the profs who hit reply all on that. Glad we have the entire university on this issue.

These are pictures from today on State Street in Madison, WI. Friends are sending me these. If you have any more information on what happened or campus reaction, please post!

Hey all! Trying to rebuild here and swear off the other place. Please recommend historians to follow or anyone to keep up with events in Ukraine. Thanks!

Last week was so heavy I woke up Tuesday wake-dreaming it was Saturday and I could just make breakfast burritos and lay around all day. Tuesday was awful but I’m doing exactly that with my real Saturday morning and it’s glorious. Happy weekend people.