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Natalya Lazar

Natalya Lazar, a Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, is a recipient of a Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies. Claims Conference fellowships support Ph.D. and postdoctoral candidates pursuing research on Holocaust-related topics. Her dissertation, entitled “Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust,” explores Jewish life and the changing dynamics of interethnic and […]


Fellow Profile: Laura Brade

Laura Brade is a Kagan Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in history.


Fellow Profile: Ella Florsheim

To help ensure that serious study and research of the Holocaust continues even after survivors are gone, the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowships in Advanced Shoah Studies supports selected Ph.D. candidates around the world. Ella Florsheim of Israel grew up listening at the Shabbat table to her grandparents’ tales of surviving the Holocaust. During her […]


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Academic Fellowships

The Claims Conference is supporting Ph.D. and postdoctoral candidates in Shoah studies who are pursuing advanced scholarship on the fate of Jews who were systematically targeted for destruction or persecution by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. Dissertation topics can include the immediate historical context in which the Shoah took place; its […]