Biography
Professor Holc鈥檚 research focuses on gender, sexuality, and social relations in the context of Central Europe. Specializing in Poland, she has published on elections, reproductive rights, Holocaust memory, and activism. Her latest book, The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust. (Brandeis University Press, 2023), assembles survivor testimonies to reconstruct the experience of hundreds of Polish-Jewish girls and young women in slave labor camps in the Sudetenland during World War II.
Education
- Ph.D, The Johns Hopkins University
- M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
- B.A., Illinois State University
Publications
- The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust. [Book] Brandeis University Press, 2023.
- 鈥淭he History of Poland in the Wake of the Holocaust,鈥� The Polish Review 66 (4) (2021): 44-52.
- 鈥淗olocaust Testimony, Autobiography, and the Effaced Self.鈥� Autobiografia: Literatura, Kultura, Media 14 (1) (2020): 15-34.
- With Amanda Konradi. 鈥淧olish Manhood in Transition: Anxieties of Neoliberal Masculinity in Robert Gli艅ski鈥檚 Cze艣膰 Tereska.鈥� East European Politics and Societies 34 (3) (2020): 752-772.
- 鈥淎nti-Semitism in Poland, Against and Beyond.鈥� Slavic Review 78 (2) (2019): 506-513.
- 鈥淧olin, The Museum of the History of Polish Jews.鈥� American Historical Review 123 (4) (2018): 1267-69.
- 鈥淭he Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands, Past and Present: Multicultural versus Decolonial Responses to Local and State Violence.鈥� Nationalities Papers 46 (4) (2018): 654-670.
- The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism: Polish-Jewish Relations Today. [Book] Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.