Note: This list does not include any of the extensive material I’ve written on behalf of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum unless it included my byline.

All views represented are my own.

Monographs

• Shelter on the Lake: 982 Holocaust Refugees and an American Small Town, Simon & Schuster (forthcoming).
• Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, Doubleday, 2018. Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Writing Based on Archival Material (the JDC-Herbert Katzki Award). Paperback edition by Anchor, 2019. Order now: Bookshop | Amazon | Politics and Prose | IndieBound | Barnes & Noble
  

Chapters

• “Fort Ontario and the United States’ First Debates over Refugee Admission,” in International Approaches to the Holocaust. Mark Celinscak and Mehnaz Afridi, eds. University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
• “Making Sure They Are Alive to Be Rescued: The War Refugee Board’s Food Package Program.” In More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos, Jan Lánícek, Jan Lambertz, eds. Wayne State University Press, 2022.
• “American Immigration Policies from World War I through World War II,” in Identity, Art, and Migration, an online exhibition by the Fritz Ascher Society, 2021.
• “The War Refugee Board: Formulating Rescue from Washington.” In Unlikely Heroes: The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching, Ari Kohen and Gerald Steinacher, eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
• “Auschwitz durch die Kameralinse der SS—Die Enschlüsselung eines geheimnisvollen Fotoalbums,” in Das Höcker Album: Auschwitz durch die Linse der SS. Christophe Busch, Stefan Hördler, and Robert Jan van Pelt, eds. Philipp von Zabern, 2016.
• “The United States War Refugee Board, the Neutral Nations, and the Holocaust in Hungary,” in Bystanders, Rescuers, or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah, published by the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority, 2016.

Book Reviews

• “Rescue, Relief and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee’s Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934-1945” by Catherine Collomp, for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (36:2, Fall 2022), 267-269,
• “Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal” by Marion Kaplan and “Philippine Sanctuary: A Holocaust Odyssey” by Bonnie Harris, for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (35:2, Fall 2021), 276-280.
• “Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe” by Laurel Leff, for Central European History (53:4, December 2020), 881-883.
• “The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee Crisis” by Paul Bartrop, for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (33:1, Spring 2019), 136-138.

Miscellaneous

• “What are the Responsibilities of Nations to Intervene in Humanitarian Crises?” Big Picture Essays series in connection with The U.S. and the Holocaust, PBS, September 2022.
• “Pittsburgh’s Silent Call.” Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism, November 2018.
• “German Bombs and US Bureaucrats: How Escape Lines from Europe Were Cut Off.” Co-authored with Dr. Gertjan Broek of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, July 2018.
• “The Trump administration’s refugee and border policies cruelly ignore the lessons of the past.” The Washington Post, “Made By History” blog, May 27, 2018.
• “Encouraging Nuance in Holocaust History.” AHA Today blog, February 26, 2018.
• “After the Holocaust, the U.S. promised to protect refugees. We’re failing.” Washington Post, January 31, 2018.
• “The dark political history of American anti-Semitism.” The Hill, August 21, 2017.