The Weiss Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies
Theses Collection
University of Haifa | September 2026
Cover image: Henryk Beck, no title, June 28, 1941, mixed technique on paper, 9.6 × 13.3 cm, GBL-S-1094, collection of the Stanisław Konopka Central Medical Library. Courtesy of the Stanisław Konopka Central Medical Library.
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This volume presents a collection of research theses submitted by alumni of the Weiss Livnat International MA Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. The program offers a multidisciplinary curriculum that draws on history, anthropology, psychology, education, the arts, and more.
The theses were authored by graduate students from across the globe and supervised by scholars from Israel and abroad. They span a wide range of topics, methodologies, and geographic contexts – from the camps and ghettos of occupied Europe to questions of memory, identity, testimony, and commemoration that continue to shape the field today. In their breadth and diversity, these works reflect the program’s core conviction that the Holocaust must be studied from multiple perspectives and across disciplinary boundaries.
For each thesis, we have included the abstract and a link to the full text, available digitally through the University of Haifa Library (unless otherwise noted, all theses were submitted in English and are accessible with open access, with the authors’ permission). The year of submission and the name(s) of the supervisor(s) also accompany each entry.
The collection is organized into nine thematic categories: Camps and Ghettos, Memory and Commemoration, Rescue and Resistance, Cultural and Artistic Expression, Documentation and Testimonies, Antisemitism and Persecution, Identity and Survival, Bystanders and Perpetrators, and Specialized Groups and Communities. Some theses could reasonably appear in more than one category; where there was ambiguity, we sought to identify the primary focus of each work.
Taken together, these theses constitute a significant contribution to Holocaust research and to the ongoing effort to preserve and transmit its memory to future generations.
Prof. Arieh Kochavi, Founder & Head of the Program
Anat Weiner, Program Director
Yoav Yaron, Volume Editor, Managing Editor of the Journal of Holocaust Research
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