Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies

09/30/2026

New article today in "The Conversation" by our director of Jewish Studies, Ashley Walters! Here at the College of Charleston and across the South, we are seeing a surge in Jewish student applicants and enrollees. Ashley traces that back story and looks at the future of Jewish students in the American South.

Link in comments.

09/21/2026

Join the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies for a thought-provoking conversation with author Paula A. Oppermann about "Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia," the most comprehensive English-language study of Latvian fascism to date. Drawing on sources in seven languages, the book offers important new insights into fascism, antisemitism, and mass violence in Europe.

🗓 September 22, 2026
🕚 11:30 a.m. EST / 10:30 a.m. CST

This event is online only, check the comments for the registration link.

09/18/2026

New small piece in the "Rambler" about our teacher study trip this summer. We are really proud of this initiative and hope we can host this again in future!

09/01/2026

Check out this new blog post to learn more about some of what the Center was up to this summer!

Last academic year, the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies held an international search for an archival professional to take on a new opportunity we named the “Theodore and Dale Rosengarten Archival Studies Fellowship.”

Read more about this project on the Campus Kibitz, link in the comments.

08/26/2026

As the semester starts up here in Madison, we'd like to take this to encourage you to attend Paula Oppermann's upcoming lecture, “Thunder Cross: Fascist Antisemitism in Twentieth-Century Latvia”
https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/oppermann/

📅 September 22 @ 10:30
Online event

UW-Madison Department of History European Studies at UW-Madison

07/31/2026

Today we bid a fond farewell to Liam Wirsansky as he finished his project and headed for home in Florida. For some weeks this summer, Liam served as our Ted and Dale Rosengarten Fellow creating a complete descriptive finding aid for the entire Holocaust archive held at Addlestone Library Special Collections.

In the coming academic year we will use this aid to create a source book for students, researchers, visitors, and family members that will help them all use our collections to the fullest. Professor Gibbs will also use this new aid to create a local Holocaust research class focusing on student work with our collections.

Keep an eye out here to see how all of this comes together!

07/30/2026

The College of Charleston Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program now has a blog! Here is a first story about what some of we have been up to this summer at the Zucker/Goldberg Center.

This was a great trip and a wonderful opportunity for South Carolina teachers. We can't thank our partners at the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust enough and look forward to doing something like this again soon.

Genocide and Civil Rights Education Along the Freedom Trail: The Holocaust in Context Teacher Study Tour The Holocaust did not happen in a vacuum. As we know, it grew from wider forces of hate both inside Germany and across the globe. While those facts may be easy to state, the more difficult work i...

05/22/2026

Big news at the Zucker/Goldberg Center this week!

We can now share that Dr. Tamar Aizenberg will join us in the fall as the next Rose Mibab and Carl Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow in Holocaust Studies. She will take over as the wonderful Dr. Hana Green heads to TAMU-San Antonio to take up her new position there as assistant professor of history.

Dr. Tamar Aizenberg is a scholar of modern Jewish history, Holocaust history and memory, and oral history. Her current work is an experiential history of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and the grandchildren of Holocaust perpetrators—the third generation—in Austria, Germany, and the United States. She examines the development of these grandchildren as distinct groups, the ways their families narrate their histories, and how members of the third generation explore family history on their own terms. Tamar recently completed her PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, where she also co-taught an undergraduate course on the history of antisemitic stereotypes.

While we are very sad to see her go, we wish Hana all the best and and extend hearty welcome to Tamar!

05/22/2026

Check out the latest review of "Survival at Treblinka" by Chad S.A. Gibbs:

"Slim and read­able, Sur­vival at Tre­blin­ka will inter­est schol­ars of the Holo­caust as well as laypeo­ple curi­ous to under­stand how hero­ism takes shape and takes flight in the most des­per­ate of circumstances."

https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/survival-at-treblinka-geography-gender-and-social-networks-in-jewish-resistance

Chad Gibbs, University of Wisconsin Press, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies