Julia Werner
2015-2016 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
Julia Werner is a PhD candidate in history at Humboldt University, Berlin.
During her time at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Werner conducted research for her dissertation project “Photography during National Socialism”, which was also funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Werner used the Visual History Archive to explore the everyday photography of occupied Poland as a valuable source for both the history of the occupation and as an act of intervention, especially in acts of violence, everyday life and the processes of population policy.
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Historic Photos of a Little-Known Outdoor Jewish Ghetto
On the day of the ghettoization of the Jews in Kutno in western Poland in June 1940, Wilhelm Hansen, a German teacher and Wehrmacht soldier, took a series of 83 photos.
