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From The Battlefield To The Archive: Tracing Testimony In Holocaust Memory, Tiana M. Taliep

War, Diplomacy, and Society (MA) Theses

This thesis portfolio examines the evolving role of testimony in shaping public memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As the last generation of eyewitnesses passes, societies increasingly rely on preserved, mediated forms of testimony to understand and remember traumatic pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, or digital, is not a neutral historical record but an interpretive act shaped by cultural, political, and technological forces. This portfolio argues that testimony functions as evidence and expression: it transmits trauma across generations while simultaneously reflecting the changing frameworks through which war and genocide are remembered.

The portfolio explores testimony in personal, …

In A Hell Of Our Own Creation: Spatial Context And The Wehrmacht’S Genocidal War In Eastern Europe, 1941–1943, Charles Joseph Calcaterra

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

A multitude of social, ideological, psychological, and environmental factors encouraged German servicemen to willingly commit atrocities in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. How should historians contextualize which factors held greater influence over servicemen deployed to different sectors of the vast Eastern Front? Charles Calcaterra highlights soldiers’ responses to their surrounding environments—the landscape of Eastern Europe—to explain why frontline divisions killed and destroyed indiscriminately in accessory to the Holocaust while rearguard personnel socially justified roundups, executions, and the horrid maltreatment of Red Army prisoners of war. Through the lens of military geography, the spatial contexts that fostered frontline units’ …

Envelope With Five Cancelled French Republic Stamps

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope with five (5) cancelled French Republic stamps / 1 October, 1946 - "Nuremberg / Bureau Temporaire Francais"

Envelope Addressed To Herrn Abraham Erlanger

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope addressed to Herrn Abraham Erlanger in Luzern, Schweiz [Lucerne, Switzerland].

Postcard With Cancelled Stamps From Vienna

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postcard with cancelled stamps from Vienna,1945. Addressed to Friedrich Rausch / Wien, XII / Eichenstrasee 25

Letter From Auschwitz With Concentration Camp Rules

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Folded letter with Auschwitz concentration camp rules, Auschwitz, Poland, April 23, 1944.

Letter From Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp With Swastika Stamp

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Letter from Gross-Rosen concentration camp with a swastika stamp, 1943.

Postcard From Vienna 1943

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postcard from Vienna 1943, with photos of Judenvisagen aus Politik, Kunst, und Wissenshaft.

Postal Envelope From Serbia With Stamps

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postal envelope from Serbia to Mladá Boleslav [Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic] with stamps, dated 1942. Anti-Masonic Exhibition, Belgrade.

Letter From Bendzin, Silesia

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Letter from Bendzin, Silesia. January 18, 1941. An Herrn Alfred Schwarzbaum.

Card With Four Serbian Stamps, 1941

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Card with 4 Serbian Stamps, 1941.

Envelope To Leo Tassig

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope to Leo Tassig, Kain with Deutsche Reich stamp 1940.

Der Ewige Jude Exhibit Promotional Postcard

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Promotional postcard from Vienna advertising the anti-seminitic Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew] propaganda exhibit,1938.

The postcard is postmarked and includes a handwritten note.

Postcard From Munchen With Postal Stamp, Der Ewige Jude

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postcard from Munchen 1937 with postal stamp, Der ewige Jude

Postcard From Vienna With Characterizations Of Jews Associated With Death

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postcard from Vienna 1933 with many characterizations of Jews associated with death.

Eine Krone Bank Note With Anti-Semitic Aphorism On Reverse

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Eine Krone [1 Krone] bank note, issued January 2, 1922, from Vienna, with anti-Semitic aphorism on reverse.

On back: Das Gold, das hat die / Judenbank / Der Dreck, der blieb in deiner Hand! [The Jew's Bank has the gold, The Shit remains in your hand!]

Nazi Anti-Semetic Labels For Jewish Patients

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Blue, white and yellow adhesive labels (2 labels): Both labels have the Star of David with text, "Zur ärztlichen Behandlung ausschliesslich von Juden berechtigt." (Translated: "Authorized to provide medical treatment exclusively to Jews".)

The Nazis required these anti-Semitic labels for medication prescribed exclusively for Jewish patients.

Postcard With Scene Of A Duel

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Postcard with scene of a duel between two Juden.

Envelope To Aelteste Der Juden In Prag

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope to: Aelteste der Juden in Prag, Pardubitz with Deutsche Reich stamp with swastika.

Envelope To Dr. Hermann Miller From The Gurs Internment Camp

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope to Dr. Hermann Miller, New York, N.Y. from the Gurs internment camp France.

Envelope To A. Schwarzbaum

Gary and Nancy Katz Nazi Germany Collection

Envelope to A. Schwarzbaum, Lausanns with stamp from Bendsburg.