Benjamin Frommer

Benjamin Frommer, our keynote speaker, is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University and the author of National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia and The Ghetto without Walls: The Identification, Isolation, and Elimination of Bohemian and Moravian Jewry, 1938-1945. Frommer's work has been supported by the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and others. He teaches courses on the Holocaust, World War II, the Cold War, and topics related to nationalism, totalitarian rule, ethnic cleansing, and the prosecution of war criminals. He holds a PhD from Harvard University.