New Books in Genocide Studies
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Susanne Vees-Gulani, 'Icon Dresden: Baroque City, Air War Symbol, Political Token" (U Michigan Press, 2026)
43 mins; March 23, 2026
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)
41 mins; March 21, 2026
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality with Samuel Kassow
68 hours 45 mins; February 27, 2026
Cindy Schweich Handler, "A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany" (McFarland, 2025)
57 mins; February 16, 2026
Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernandez, "Lethal Elites: The Institutions and Professionals That Made the Holocaust Possible" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
59 mins; February 15, 2026
Tom Menger, "The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German and Dutch Empires, c. 1890-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
62 hours 12 mins; January 30, 2026
Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
75 hours 37 mins; January 11, 2026
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
63 hours 54 mins; January 06, 2026
JĂŒrgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Historical Consciousness" (Reclam Verlag, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; January 03, 2026
Lisa Silverman, "The Postwar Antisemite: Culture and Complicity After the Holocaust" (Oxford UP, 2025)
69 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2025
Anna HĂĄjkovĂĄ, "People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
33 mins; December 26, 2025
Martin Herskovitz, "Son of the Shoah: Poems from a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor" (McFarland, 2025)
33 mins; December 26, 2025
Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds., "Global Approaches to the Holocaust: Memory, History and Representation" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
62 hours 38 mins; December 16, 2025
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
71 hours 41 mins; November 23, 2025
Radio ReOrient 13.4: “The Repression of the Uyghurs,” with Zumretay Arkin, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
61 hours 13 mins; November 07, 2025
Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)
40 mins; November 03, 2025
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
45 mins; October 26, 2025
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
37 mins; October 15, 2025
Genocide Studies International Vol 16.1, Special Issue on The Future of Genocide Education
53 mins; October 07, 2025
Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; September 27, 2025
Shakirah E. Hudani, "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
38 mins; September 18, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 11, 2025
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, "Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography" (SUNY Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 06, 2025
Stanislav Kulchytsky, "The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor" (CIUS Press, 2018) - A Conversation with Bohdan Klid
68 hours 29 mins; August 27, 2025
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
29 mins; August 24, 2025
Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimists Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
74 hours 23 mins; August 21, 2025
Adam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
58 mins; August 17, 2025
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, "Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944–48" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
85 hours 22 mins; August 16, 2025
Michael Geheran, "Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler" (Cornell UP, 2020)
73 hours 2 mins; August 08, 2025
Thomas Pegelow Kaplan ed. et al., "Holocaust Testimonies: Reassessing Survivors' Voices and Their Future in Challenging Times" (Bloombury, 2025)
60 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2025
Klaus Bachmann, "The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore" (Routledge, 2025)
82 hours 35 mins; August 02, 2025
Anne Hand, "Austrian Again: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2025)
75 hours 7 mins; July 30, 2025
Frank Jacob, "Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence" (Praeger, 2018)
66 hours 7 mins; July 28, 2025
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
57 mins; July 27, 2025
Alex J. Kay and David Stahel, "Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe" (Indiana UP, 2018)
42 mins; July 20, 2025
Lucas F. W. Wilson, "At Home with the Holocaust: Postmemory, Domestic Space, and Second-Generation Holocaust Narratives" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
46 mins; July 18, 2025
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; July 16, 2025
Anahid Matossian, "Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia: Gender, Identity and Painful Belonging" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
71 hours 53 mins; July 15, 2025
Sonja Stahlhammer, "Sonja’s Journey: Through Life and the Death Camps" (2022)
71 hours 11 mins; July 13, 2025
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
37 mins; July 08, 2025
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
46 mins; June 30, 2025
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Communism and Hunger: The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective" (CIUS Press, 2016)
73 hours 33 mins; June 28, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During the Stalingrad Offensive: Spring 1942 to the Spring of 1943" (Frontline, 2025)
93 hours 18 mins; June 27, 2025
Amy Simon, "Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity" (Routledge, 2024)
71 hours 36 mins; June 09, 2025
Antonio J. Muñoz, "Hitler's War Against the Partisans During Operation Barbarossa: June 1941 to the Spring of 1942" (Frontline, 2025)
95 hours 25 mins; May 28, 2025
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
72 hours 10 mins; May 21, 2025
David de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
67 hours 36 mins; May 12, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
89 hours 43 mins; May 11, 2025
Katerina Krlov, "Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-46" (Brandeis UP, 2025)
78 hours 12 mins; May 09, 2025
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
51 mins; May 08, 2025
Nechama Birnbaum, "The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2021)
51 mins; May 07, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive" (HarperCollins, 2021)
68 hours 34 mins; May 04, 2025
Tim Grady, "Burying the Enemy: The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2025)
52 mins; April 27, 2025
Alexandra Birch, "Hitler’s Twilight of the Gods: Music and the Orchestration of War and Genocide in Europe" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
79 hours 4 mins; April 25, 2025
Ulf Zander, "Raoul Wallenberg: Life and Legacy" (Lund UP, 2024)
67 hours 57 mins; April 14, 2025
Karen A. Frenkel, "Family Treasures: Lost & Found" (Post Hill Press, 2025)
57 mins; April 08, 2025
Stefanie Fischer and Kim WĂŒnschmann, "Oberbrechen: a German Village Confronts Its Nazi Past" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; April 07, 2025
Lucy Adlington, "Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust" (HarperCollins, 2025)
63 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2025
Thomas P. Bernstein, "Holocaust: German History and Our Half-Jewish Family" (Cherry Orchard, 2024)
84 hours 19 mins; March 24, 2025
Kobi Kabalek, "Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
55 mins; March 16, 2025
William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)
86 hours 12 mins; March 15, 2025
Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult" (Ibidem Press, 2014)
56 mins; March 13, 2025
Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)
74 hours 9 mins; March 11, 2025
Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)
82 hours 41 mins; March 09, 2025
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
36 mins; March 06, 2025
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
78 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2025
LĂĄszlĂł Borhi, "Survival under Dictatorships: Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes" (Central European UP, 2024)
45 mins; March 03, 2025
Victoria Khiterer, "Jewish Pogroms in Kiev During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920" (Edwin Mellen, 2015)
75 hours 46 mins; March 01, 2025
Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" (de Gruyter, 2020)
53 mins; February 27, 2025
Thanasis S. Fotiou, "Hitler’s Hunting Squad in Southern Europe: The Bloody Path of Fritz Schubert through Occupied Crete and Macedonia" (Pen and Sword, 2024)
20 mins; February 23, 2025
Shay A. Pilnik, "The Ravine of Memory: Babyn Yar Between the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War" (Purdue UP, 2025)
86 hours 54 mins; February 22, 2025
Saulius Suziedelis, "Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania" (Academic Studies Press, 2025)
66 hours 30 mins; February 14, 2025
Bruce Robbins, "Atrocity: A Literary History" (Stanford UP, 2025)
69 hours 38 mins; February 09, 2025
"We Remember Lest the World Forget: Memories of the Minsk Ghetto" (JewishGen, 2018)
119 hours 56 mins; February 02, 2025
Karel Margry, "Nordhausen Concentration Camp" (After the Battle, 2024)
94 hours 17 mins; January 31, 2025
Edward Westermann, "Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest" (U Oklahoma Press, 2016)
93 hours 38 mins; January 29, 2025
Leon Saltiel, "The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943" (Routledge, 2020)
52 mins; January 26, 2025
Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
80 hours 52 mins; January 20, 2025
Mark Celinscak, "Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp" (U Toronto Press, 2015)
74 hours 29 mins; January 16, 2025
Alette Smeulers, "Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?" (Routledge, 2023)
52 mins; January 12, 2025
Gervase Phillips, "Persecution and Genocide: A History" (Routledge, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; January 10, 2025
Jonathan R. Beloff, "The Strategy to End the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda" (Lexington Books, 2025)
80 hours 16 mins; January 09, 2025
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets" (Oxford UP, 2019)
60 hours 33 mins; January 07, 2025
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
58 mins; January 07, 2025
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
123 hours 6 mins; January 02, 2025
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
92 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Diana Dumitru, "The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
109 hours 20 mins; December 26, 2024
Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
43 mins; December 10, 2024
Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
58 mins; December 09, 2024
Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich" (Penguin, 2024)
62 hours 44 mins; December 08, 2024
Nicola Kristin Karcher and Markus Lundström, "Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History" (Routledge, 2022)
31 mins; December 07, 2024
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
81 hours 9 mins; December 06, 2024
Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß, "Antisemitism in the North: History and State of Research" (de Gruyter, 2019)
64 hours 49 mins; December 04, 2024
Krzysztof Bielawski, "The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
60 hours 35 mins; December 01, 2024
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)
62 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2024
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 15, 2024
Maksim Goldenshteyn, "So They Remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
87 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2024
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 11, 2024
Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 22, 2024