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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

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Where and What and When is Home?

Where and What and When is Home?

I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and that place will always remain beloved and, fundamentally, home to me. But as my disabilities have...

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‘Post-Jewish Property’ and The Problem of the Returning Neighbor

‘Post-Jewish Property’ and The Problem of the Returning Neighbor

In postwar Polish files, the phrase mienie pożydowskie gave officials a name for property left after the destruction of Jewish life. “Post-Jewish...

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The Camps After Liberation: Catastrophe Still Unfolding

When Allied soldiers entered the concentration camps in 1945, they did not find an ending. They found the catastrophe still unfolding. They found a...

25.05.2026 50

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The Sacred Memory of Maximilian Kolbe

Holocaust cinema repeatedly confronts a problem that is artistic, moral, and historiographical at once: the catastrophe exceeds ordinary narrative...

20.05.2026 60

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The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust

People do strange things to the dead when the dead become politically inconvenient. They soften them. They resize them. They strip away the details...

14.05.2026 60

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Why the Third Reich Loved Paperwork

The Holocaust is often imagined through its most visibly horrific images: cattle cars, skeletal surviving prisoners on liberation photography and...

07.05.2026 60

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Weaponized Canines: Dogs in the Concentration Camp System

White slaveholding Americans were neither the first nor the last to exploit dogs for the purposes of persecution. One of the most notorious examples...

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Austria Says Camps Weren’t Residences. Section 58c Fails for the Same Reason.

Recently, the Republic of Austria explained to my family, in precise legal German, that a forced place of stay is not a residence. A person must have...

28.04.2026 40

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