05/06/2026
[𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰] Natalia Aleksiun — "Bonds of Intimacy and Dependency“ project
Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies and Interim Director of the UF Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida. She holds doctoral degrees from the University of Warsaw and New York University. Her research focuses on the Holocaust in East Central Europe.
She is the author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (2021) and Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944–1950 (2002), and the editor of Gershon Taffet’s The Destruction of the Jews of Zolkiew (2019). She has also co-edited The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: The Victims and Their Worlds, 1939–1945 (2025), The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (2024), Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 36, Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe (2024), Entanglements of War: Social Networks during the Holocaust (2023), and Places, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust (2021).
During her stay in Munich, she will conduct research on mixed marriages in western Ukraine during the Holocaust and complete a biography of Philip Friedman.
Find out more about the "Bonds of Intimacy and Dependency" project: https://shorturl.at/kL3Mo