The Initial Findings from USHMM's Database of Holocaust Trials for the Lublin Region in Poland

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

In late 2023, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) embarked on a long-term foundational project to create a database of Holocaust trials in Europe. The first phase of the project, currently underway and projected to be finished by the end of 2025, will create a database of Holocaust trials prosecuted before the courts in Lublin, Poland. The papers in this panel present findings based on sustained collaborative research of this material, and reflect on the promises, potential, and challenges of database approach to the study of postwar justice in Lublin and beyond.

Sub Unit

• History: 1945-1990

Chair

• Emil Kerenji, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Papers

• Trajectories of the 'August Trials' Proceedings - Justyna Majewska, Jewish Historical Institute (Poland)

• Cases with Jewish and Non-Jewish Witnesses before the Appellate Court in Lublin - Justyna Koszarska-Szulc, Institute of Literary Research, PAN (Poland)

• The 'August Trials', Polish Witnesses, and Social Relationships in Poland after the Holocaust - Louisa McClintock, Independent Scholar

Discussant

• Miranda Brethour, CUNY Graduate Center