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Jonathan Lanz

Jonathan Lanz is a historian of childhood, Modern Jewish History, and the Holocaust. He is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His dissertation project examines the lives and memories of the ‘Birkenau Boys,’ a group of 89 male child survivors from the Theresienstadt Family Camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Jonathan received a B.A. in World History with distinction at Georgetown University in 2019 and an M.A. in European History at Indiana University in 2021.