Dr. Waitman W. Beorn

@waitmanb

Holocaust/Genocide Studies historian | Digital Historian | veteran | dad | goalkeeper | Proud grad of and

Joined December 2008

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    26 Nov 2018

    Excited that my article on the Janowska camp has "dropped" from and Genocide Studies (, ) Thanks to , and Dieter Pohl for their help! Looking forward to any feedback!

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Friday night fun fact, with all the trolling by right wing Poles and nationalists (and some antisemites)...because I am SUCH a "polonophobe:" These are 2 of the 4 of my wife's relatives: non-Jewish Poles (resistance members) sent to . The older one died there.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    The longer these trolls attack, their true colors come out. Very little nuance in this antisemitism. (Jewish communism, slurs, etc.)

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Mike Krzyzewski played basketball under Bob Knight (with apologies to who inspired me with her far more important tweet.)

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  5. 16 hours ago
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  6. 17 hours ago

    Check these out for sure. Great work in the digital world by !

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  7. 17 hours ago

    As is going on and I learned the power of in elevating historians' voices from in 2018... I'd like to retweet some grad students. Send me those doing great work. I do , , , history but share em all!

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  8. 21 hours ago

    As historians and families of survivors alike continue to seek info about this tragic event, I should remind everyone that the resources at are no available. The museum will close today due to 's needless of the government.

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  9. The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro | Fiona Watson

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  10. 22 hours ago

    Here is another instance of the use of an antisemitic trope: the idea of Jewish domination of countries, "wandering" Jews, Jews as parasites within "legitimate" nations.

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  11. 23 hours ago

    An interesting thread in which a survivor confronts the (or at least their Twitter account). A nice look at the and social media. P.S.-, you are an inspiration and a phenomenal woman!

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  12. 23 hours ago

    Thanks for the reply, ! I appreciate the dialogue. Exhibitions should not assume important things like identity. Can you also explain the reasoning behind why only 5/34 biographies are of Jews, when 75% of those killed in the camp were Jews? Just curious.

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  13. Jan 3
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    I have to say, I admire you for taking these folks on. I would never do this in a million years. Apparently you vets are a pretty spunky lot. Still, these neo-historians can be dangerous. Please be careful.

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  14. Jan 3

    Hopefully, will reach out to her as well. I would never write such a thing to her. Deeply saddens me that their tone is mistakenly imputed to me. Eva is wonderful. A true hero.

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  15. Jan 3

    1. A compact thread on the Auschwitz death toll. Some Auschwitz estimates - in the hundreds of thousands and millions (cf. the Vrba-Wetzler report or the Polish resistance messages) - appeared even before the Soviet liberation. Upon the liberation the Soviet soldiers and

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  16. Jan 3
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  17. Jan 3

    And another deeply problematic statement about Jews. . .

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  18. Jan 3

    This thread is the gift that keeps on giving...I've never been compared to Hannah Arendt before. . .

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  19. Jan 3

    And since my methodology and sources have been called into question. Here are some examples of Polish complicity, from archival and scholarly sources, in Lviv (which was Lwów and part of Poland at the time.

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  20. Jan 3

    Here are some more examples of veiled and blatant antisemitism being used to counter my comments on this thread. As I predicted, they would come and here they are.

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  21. Jan 3

    Oh, my. This is problematic on so many levels. I predict some kind of "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" redux. Uggh.

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