Talks and Presentations

The Janowska concentration camp in Lviv, Ukraine is probably the most important Holocaust site that most people have never heard of. In this presentation, Dr. Beorn will present the important history of the camp and will introduce his current project of creating a digital reconstruction of the camp based on historical sources.

Social Psychology and the Holocaust Conference

How can we apply digital spatial methods and theory to the Holocaust? This presentation seeks to showcase some ways in which mapping and visualization have been used in the study of one concentration camp but also to highlight some (unanswered) questions that inform the use of digital techniques in analysis and presentation. Some of these questions are centered around ethics, ambiguity, sources, and the strengths/weaknesses of various approaches.

New Avenues in Eastern European Holocaust Research Conference

Mass executions and German Army orders to commit horrific war crimes during World War Two were some of the areas covered during a guest lecture at the Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre based at the University of Huddersfield. Dr Waitman Beorn, who is a consultant and writer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a senior lecturer in history, shared his research into the Wehrmacht’s (German Army’s) role in the Holocaust, how a cruel attitude towards Jews became embedded in its culture and the relevance of that, even today.

Digital History Seminar

The Janowska camp complex in Lwów was responsible for the murder of at least 80,000 Jews yet has received relatively little academic treatment. The camp is of particular interest to historians of the Holocaust due to its hybrid nature as slave labor camp, transit camp, and extermination center. This lecture will details and analyze these functions while showing how the camp itself was central to the Holocaust in Lviv and in Galicia.