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The Holocaust History Podcast

The Holocaust History Podcast

By: Waitman Wade Beorn
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The Holocaust History Podcast features engaging conversations with a diverse group of guests on all elements of the Holocaust. Whether you are new to the topic or come with prior knowledge, you will learn something new.

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  • Ep. 81- Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums with Julie Golding

    Ep. 81- Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums with Julie Golding
    Jun 29 2026

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    HAve you encountered material on the Holocaust that you find disturbing or upsetting? Was it in your reading or at a Holocaust site or museum? In this episode, I talk with Julie Golding about the challenges of presenting such material in Holocaust education and at Holocaust museums.

    How shoudl museums address the emotional wellbeing of their visitors? What kinds of content is appropriate (and how do you decide?). We talk about these and many other issues in our conversation.


    Julie J. Golding is a Holocaust educator, museum professional, and Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair of the Master's in Holocaust Education at Touro University.

    Golding, Julie J. Unseen Scars:: Vicarious Trauma at Holocaust Museums, Exhibitions, and Memorial Sites (2026)

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    You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • Ep. 80- Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust with Laura Jockusch

    Ep. 80- Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust with Laura Jockusch
    Jun 8 2026

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    Even as the Holocaust was ongoing, some Jews dreamed of and sought revenge for Nazi attacks on them. Ironically, the Nazis themselves believed in a particularly antisemitic myth of Jewish vengeance and many Germans after the war feared widespread retaliation by Holocaust survivors. Indeed, there were some attempts to carry out revenge attacks on Nazis after the war.

    In this episode, I talked with Laura Jockusch about what revenge meant in all these contexts and more, including in the popular imagination with media like Inglourious Basterds and The Hunters.


    Laura Jockusch is the Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University.


    Jockusch, Laura. Jewish Revenge and the Holocaust: History, Memory, and Imagination (2026)

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    Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com

    The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here

    You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Ep. 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander

    Ep. 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander
    May 25 2026

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    There are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this. The truth is that various kinds of supernatural, occult, and border scientific beliefs influenced many of the leading Nazis.

    In addition, these beliefs also ultimately provided a contextual background that influenced Nazi policy. This is one of the reasons that these fringe and often outlandish beliefs are so important. In this episode, I talk with Eric Kurlander about his detailed and scholarly exploration of the Nazi supernatural imaginary.


    Eric Kurlander is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies program at Stetson University.

    Kurlander, Eric. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich(2017)

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    Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.com

    The Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here

    You can find a complete reading list with books by our guests and also their suggestions here.
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    1 hr and 45 mins
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Fascinating and thought provoking listening. A huge range of information on the Holocaust. Thank you

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I’m interested in the history of the Holocaust since I was a teenager, so when I saw this series as a position available on Audible, I jumped right into it.
What a waste of a potential this podcast series is. The host doesn’t know what he is doing half of the time. Instead of leading the conversation where it should lead, he is wasting time on talking about… Well, nothing really. There are episodes where a specific subject should be covered and you won’t hear one interesting fact, but plenty of bulls**t talk. And the guests… Most are boring, unprepared - useless. It’s about Holocaust, then talk ABOUT Holocaust. Not social studies or gender or whatever other thing is on your personal agenda. There are some real gems where you actually learn interesting things like episodes on Treblinka (NOT the spatial one), Polish-Jewish relations, Holocaust education in Poland, Sonderkommandos - here the guests know what they are talking about and know what message they want to deliver. Not bad are episodes on genocide in Bielarus, Einsatzgruppen or Bełżec. Again - here the speakers want to share their knowledge and won’t allow the host to drag them constantly into pointless conversations. The most disappointing topics are the ones that truly should be well prepared and delivered, because they are rarely known by the wider public. Roma genocide, hunger in the ghettos, Nazi perpetrators in Australia - all that is delivered by so called experts and academics who in reality can’t share anything of significance. In fact after first 20-30 min you start to double check the title of the episode to remind yourself what the guest is supposed to be talking about. The biggest failure so far is the latest episode on women during the Holocaust. What a colossal waste of time. Nothing of value or interest, just over an hour of bulls**ting about gender roles. Another issue is the selection of topics. I don’t know if this is driven by the availability of the speakers or is the host deliberately selecting them himself - but this makes no sense whatsoever. There are two episodes on transgender victims of the Holocaust, there are episodes about chaplains in the German army, having a Nazi in the family, entire episode about Shoah movie (boring as hell) and other weird subjects, but there is nothing on important topics like Hungarian genocide of Jews, how Jews lived in hiding during the war, Łódź Ghetto, organised crime to denounce and sell Jews to the Germans in the occupied or collaborating countries, raise of the antisemitism is Europe before the war, there should be an entire episode dedicated to how Germany was profiting from the Holocaust. About medical experiments in the camps. Forced labour and who was gaining on this. You have an episode about the memory of Babi Yar in art and literature but no episode about how Babi Yar happened? Maybe you should re-think your priorities.
Finally - technical side. When you record a podcast (especially after 70 episodes) you should know that your chair in which you are stretching out can produce a horrible screeching sound that will interrupt the episode every 5 minutes or so. That if the guest is typing on his computer to try and find his script, the audience will hear the noise. That if an animal or a child runs around the house while the podcast is being recorded (episode 70) the audience will hear it. All this is badly impacting the whole experience and gives the whole project a feel of a cheap attempt at a student radio rather than a serious historical production.
This series should be something great, that pushes people towards learning more about the Holocaust. It’s not. I hope it will change, because world needs to remember what Holocaust was and why it happened - but not in such a convoluted way

Mostly talks about nothing, with some rare good episodes which actually talk about the Holocaust

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