Publications

The Holocaust Educational Foundation is proud to have awarded the Sharon Abramson Grant (SARG) in support of the following publications: 

Books and Edited Volumes

Huneke, Samuel Clowes. I Will Not Abandon You. Queer Women in Nazi Germany. Aevo UTP, 2026.

[SARG awarded in 2023]

Available for pre-order here.

Wallach, Kerry. Traces of a Jewish Artist. The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit. Penn State
University Press, 2024.

[SARG awarded in 2020]

Available for purchase here.

Anthony, Elizabeth. The Compromise of Return. Viennese Jews After the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press, 2021.

[SARG awarded in 2010]

Available for purchase here.

Kralj, Lovro. “Populism, memory politics and the Ustaša movement, 1945-2020.” Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe. Taylor & Francis, 2021.

[SARG awarded in 2018]

Available for purchase here.

Fenoglio, Luca. “Fascist Policy towards Jews in South-Eastern France, 1942-1943: Some Remarks on the Events and Methodology.” The “Jewish Question” in the Territories Occupied by Italians, 1939-1943, ed by Andrea Ungari and Giovanni Orsina, Viella Libreria Editrice, 2020, pp. 117-135.

[SARG awarded in 2014]

Available for purchase here.

Fenoglio, Luca. “What ‘new order’? Fascist expansionism and the Jews: the case of south-eastern France, 1942-1943.” A Fascist Decade of War. 1935-1945 in International Perspective, ed by Varley, Karine and Marco Maria Aterrano, Taylor & Francis, 2020.

[SARG awarded in 2014]

Available for purchase here.

Clifford, Rebecca. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust. Yale University Press, 2020.

[SARG awarded in 2018]

Available for purchase here.

Knowles, Adam. Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Political Silence. Stanford University Press, 2019.

[SARG awarded in 2016]

Available for purchase here.

Knowles, Adam. “Martin Heidegger’s Nazi Conscience.” Probing the Limits of Categorization. The Bystander in Holocaust History, ed by Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs, Berghahn Books, 2018.

[SARG awarded in 2016]

Available for purchase here.

Michlic, Beata. “Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland.” The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century. Contesting/Contested Memories, ed by Seymour, David and Mercedes Camino, Taylor & Francis, 2016.

[SARG awarded in 2015]

Available for purchase here.

Eder, Jacob. Holocaust Angst: The Federal Republic of Germany and American Holocaust Memory since the 1970s. Oxford University Press, 2016.

[SARG awarded in 2011]

Available for purchase here.

Articles

• Birch, Alexandra. “To the ‘City of Bread’? Testimonial Perceptions of Holocaust Evacuation.” S.I.M.O.N., vol 12, no 2, 2025, pp. 4-21. [SARG awarded in 2024]

• Hobson Faure, Laura. “Exploring political rupture through Jewish children’s diaries: Kindertransport children in France, 1938-1942.” Journal of Modern European History, vol 19, no 3, August 2021, pp. 258-273. [SARG awarded in 2016]
• Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas. “In the Interest of the Volk…’ Nazi-German Paternity Suits and Racial Recategorization in the Munich Superior Courts, 1938-1945.” Law and History Review, vol 29, no 2, May 2011, pp. 523-548. [SARG awarded in 2006]
• Steinhart, Eric. “Policing the Boundaries of ‘Germandom’ in the East: SS Ethnic German Policy and Odessa’s ‘Volksdeutsche,’ 1941-1944.” Central European History, vol 43, no 1, March 2010, pp. 85-116 [SARG awarded in 2008]

Dissertations

• Birch, Alexandra. Sonic Terror: Music, Murder, and Migration in the USSR, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States -- California, 2024. [SARG awarded in 2024]
• Foreman, Anthony A. Pride and Privilege: Military Honor and Hegemonic Masculinity in German and British Courtrooms, 1914-66, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States -- Nebraska, 2023. [SARG awarded in 2021]
• Meissel, Lukas. Beyond the Perpetrators’ Gaze: An Integrated Visual History of Nazi Concentration Camps, University of Haifa (Israel), Israel, 2023. [SARG awarded in 2019]
• Matzen, Christina. Women's Prisons and the Politics of Punishment in Nazi and Postwar Germany, University of Toronto (Canada), Canada -- Ontario, CA, 2022. [SARG awarded in 2016]
• Buller, Robin M. Ottoman Jews in Paris: Sephardi Immigrant Community, Culture, and Identity, 1918-1939, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina, 2021. [SARG awarded in 2018] 
• Rozas Krause, Valentina J. Memorials and the Cult of Apology, University of California, Berkeley, United States -- California, 2020. [SARG awarded in 2017]
• Anthony, Elizabeth P. Return Home: Holocaust Survivors Reestablishing Lives in Postwar Vienna, Clark University, United States -- Massachusetts, 2016. [SARG awarded in 2010]
• Simon, Amy. "Surrounded by the Hunter on all Sides": Jewish Perceptions of Perpetrators in the Nazi Ghettos, Indiana University, United States -- Indiana, 2015. [SARG awarded in 2009]
• Koerber, Jeffrey P. Born in the Borderlands: Jewish Youth and their Response to Oppression and Genocide, 1933-1948, Clark University, United States -- Massachusetts, 2015. [SARG awarded in 2009]
• Lambert, Elizabeth H. The Gauforum, the Camp and the City of Classics: Landscape and Memory in Postwar Weimar, Indiana University, United States -- Indiana, 2014. [SARG awarded in 2008] 
• Strauss, Elizabeth C. "Cast Me Not Off in My Time of Old Age…": The Aged and Aging in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944, University of Notre Dame, United States -- Indiana, 2013. [SARG awarded in 2007]
• Thorne, M. B. The Anxiety of Proximity: The "Gypsy Question" in Romanian Society, 1934–1944 and Beyond, Indiana University, United States -- Indiana, 2012. [SARG awarded in 2011]
• Steinhart, Eric C. Creating Killers: The Nazification of the Black Sea Germans and the Holocaust in Southern Ukraine, 1941-1944, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina, 2010.[SARG awarded in 2008]
• Connor, Stephen A. Golden Pheasants and Eastern Kings: The German District Administration in the Occupied Soviet Union, 1941–1944, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), Canada -- Ontario, CA, 2008. [SARG awarded in 2003]
• Hebert, Valerie G. The Nuremberg High Command Case: Context and Legacy, 1947–1958, University of Toronto (Canada), Canada -- Ontario, CA, 2006. [SARG awarded in 2003]
• Erickson, Michelle L. Witness: On the Transmission and Reception of French Literary and Audiovisual Holocaust Testimony, New York University, United States -- New York, 2005. [SARG awarded in 2002]
• Pegelow, Thomas. Linguistic Violence: Language, Power and Separation in the Fate of Germans of Jewish Ancestry, 1928–1948, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States -- North Carolina, 2004.[SARG awarded in 2006]
• Paehler, Katrin. Espionage, Ideology, and Personal Politics: The Making and Unmaking of a Nazi Foreign Intelligence Service, American University, United States -- District of Columbia, 2004.[SARG awarded in 2002] 
• van der Zanden, Christine E. The Plateau of Hospitality: Jewish Refugee Life on the Plateau Vivarais -Lignon, Clark University, United States -- Massachusetts, 2003. [SARG awarded in 2002]