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Chad Gibbs
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Holocaust historian, professor, and retired soldier. Author of Survival at Treblinka https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Survival-at-Treblinka.
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I stand to learn a lot from this seminar - coming Tuesday! - by Treblinka researchers doing really important work.
@jacobflaws.bsky.social @chadgibbs101.bsky.social and Caroline Sturdy Colls.
Poster found on Facebook advertising the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University's seminar entitled "New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence and Memory." Tuesday, January 27th at 2 pm Eastern time.
January 23, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.
January 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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The first day of a great conference is behind us. Amazing how many familiar faces there are here thousands of miles from home.
bcflconference.bsky.social Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference @bcflconference.bsky.social · Jan 7
And we begin! Acting Co-Director of the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Dr @ceschmidt.bsky.social giving the first opening remarks, followed shortly by Professor David Feldman, Director of @bisa-bkk.bsky.social !
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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I’m a tenure track professor and I never took the SAT because I was about to join the military after high school.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 2
Like, not even GRE scores. SAT scores.
January 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
chadgibbs101.bsky.social
I’m sorry, no. I understand the actual origin of the swastika and I also understand its continued use in South Asia, but you cannot actually be serious with this take about its use in the United States.
rns.org RNS @rns.org · Dec 10
OPINION: We learn to understand, evaluate and judge based on context, intent and usage, and need to do the same for a symbol that is now tarred by an ideology that it was never part of.
religionnews.com/2025/12/09/t...
The Coast Guard’s fumble on Nazi emblem shows the symbol needs understanding
(RNS) — The dark history of one use of the shape should not lead us to ban all uses.
religionnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Here the whole flyer
flyer that tells more about my book which costs £14,99 and also gives the 30% discount code
September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I have a book cover! After years of work, "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" is available for pre-order. It will ship in March and the official release date is set for April 2026. I can't wait to share this important history and hear from readers!
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Its #MosseWednesday! Join us on Zoom for Kathryn L. Brackney’s talk, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness” on September 15th.

Register here: go.wisc.edu/bk9sbt

mosseprogram.wisc.edu/event/brackn...
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@chadgibbs101.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
#UWHistdept #UWpress
2025: Kathryn Brackney, “Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness”
College of Charleston Mosse Lecture Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Kathryn Brackney (Universiteit Leiden) Comment by Sheer Ganor Chaired by Chad S.A. Gibbs Sponsored by:...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Check out the work of my amazing student Leah Davenport and the Landsmann family story!
From Charleston to Berlin, How Student Research Uncovered a Holocaust Story
Podcast Episode · Speaking of ... College of Charleston · 07/18/2025 · 21m
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July 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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CfP | Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Chapel Hill, organizes a conference on American Jewish Landscapes Since October 7th | April 19-20, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline for proposals: July 31, 2025
June 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Ah!
officialmelbrooks.bsky.social Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · Jun 12
I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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June 11, 1942 Herbert Baum commits suicide in custody. A resistance fighter against National Socialism and a central figure of the "Herbert Baum Group," which was predominantly composed of Jewish youth.

#otd #history #resistance
June 11, 1942: Herbert Baum commits suicide in custody. A resistance fighter against National Socialism and a central figure of the "Herbert Baum Group," which was predominantly composed of Jewish youth. At times, the group included up to 100 young people who engaged in discussion groups, distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, supported Jewish forced laborers, and helped Jews go into hiding to avoid deportation. Following an arson attack on the anti-communist propaganda exhibition "The Soviet Paradise," Baum and about 50 members of the group were arrested. Some were sentenced to death or sent to concentration camps. Baum himself took his own life on June 11, 1942, while in custody. The memorial stone in Berlin's Lustgarten, commemorating the attack by the "Herbert Baum Group," lists 28 victims.
June 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I returned my book copy edits to the press! Summer currently moving along like it’s supposed to.
June 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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5,500 !!

I’m just guessing that means I’ve walked over a few of these.
June 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Wow. One of our community members in Charleston was once CEO of the company I’m told.
June 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Those are anti-popes
iamhectordiaz.com Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Perfection
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · May 7
It's not that the Cardinals are in seclusion. It's just that the Vatican only has Eduroam.
May 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I’m in.
mattdpearce.com Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · May 3
Reintroduce an all-electric version of this and sell a million of them to liberal men.
A vintage Ford F-250 Truck with light green and cream paint.
May 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Oh here we go, they sent me the copy edits for my book tonight. Not going to let myself open that on a Friday night!
May 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Send help, it’s so ugly here.
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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📖 New article online!

'Placing Women in the Revolt: Gender and the History and Memory of Resistance at Treblinka', by Chad S. A. Gibbs

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Placing Women in the Revolt: Gender and the History and Memory of Resistance at Treblinka | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Placing Women in the Revolt: Gender and the History and Memory of Resistance at Treblinka
www.cambridge.org
January 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The #Holocaust was the first widely photographed mass atrocity. #LastSeen project collects images of Nazi deportations (1938–1945), often the last photos of victims—some even taken by Jewish individuals. https://buff.ly/3EdyAna (Wolf Gruner @dornsife.usc.edu) 🗃️ #HolocaustRememberanceDay
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM