Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is a Lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Harvard, 2014) and The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). He is currently working on a book project exploring the Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv.
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