a big problem, even though it really wasn’t. Lately, especially in the Holocaust museum, I’ve been looking
at a lot of police and trial records. The file comes to an end when the trial is over and it’s been nearly
impossible to find out what happens to these people after their trial. But now the files of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen, Germany, are finally available to scholars. These archives are run by the
International Red Cross and until recently they’ve really only opened their doors to enquiries from victims
who desperately need financial compensation for their suffering in Nazi prisons and camps. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum successfully harangued the Red Cross for many years until finally they agreed
to have the entire archive of 30 million documents copied and made available in Washington DC. Even
better, the entire collection has been digitized and is searchable, so now I am able to follow up on what
happened to these people after their trials, when they were sometimes shunted off to concentration camps
and killed there.
WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST ABOUT TEACHING?
I do miss the students. There is a certain excitement and satisfaction in dealing with the best students that
we have and helping them go on to graduate study and eventually, if you’ve been here as long as I have,
seeing them get into