Holocaust in Baltic states

30th July - 4th August 2025
(6 Days)

Expert Historian : Dr Waitman Beorn

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Your Holiday Essentials

30th July - 4th August 2025
(6 Days)

Expert Historian: Dr Waitman Beorn

Incl. travel from UK: N/A

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Tour Introduction

The plight of the Jews in Latvia and Lithuania, the atrocities in Riga, Kaunus and Vilnius, the suffering in the ghettos and the mass shootings at Paneriai and Rumbula Forest. Learn about armed Jewish resistance groups and the Japanese vice-consul who saved over 5,000 Jewish lives.

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Dr Waitman Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

Dr Waitman Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS is an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA and the inaugural Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He received his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill where he worked under the direction of Christopher Browning. His first book examined the complicity of the German Army in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, focusing on ground level participation. That book, Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Harvard University Press, 2014) won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book from Harvard Press. The book also received the Honorable Mention for the Sybil Milton Memorial Book Prize for books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the German Studies Association. Dr. Beorn is also the author of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) and has recently finished a book on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine entitled Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024).

Dr. Beorn has published work in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Central European History, German Studies Review, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Politics and Governance, and the Geographical Review in addition to chapters in several edited volumes. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Claims Conference fellowships.

As a public-facing scholar, Dr. Beorn has published pieces in the Washington Post, Time, The New Republic, and The Forward. He has also appeared on CNN, Richard French Live on WRNN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and TRT. He is an active contributor to public history and engagement on Twitter as well. Dr. Beorn is also the host of The Holocaust History Podcast.

Dr. Beorn teaches courses in Holocaust History, Comparative Genocide, German history, Eastern European history, Antisemitism, Modern European history, Jewish history, Historical Methodology, Public history, and Digital history.

Dr. Beorn is a 2000 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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30th July - 4th August 2025
(6 Days)

Expert Historian: Dr Waitman Beorn

Incl. travel from UK: N/A

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