Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Conflict, Violence and Genocide
- Europe
- Social
Areas of Interest
Holocaust and genocide studies; twentieth century Europe; modern Germany; Jewish studies; social history; public history; oral history
Biography
Lauren Fedewa is a second-year PhD student in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Lauren specializes in Holocaust Studies, Conflict, Violence, and Genocide, Twentieth Century Europe, Modern Germany, and Jewish Studies. Her research focuses on the topic of Polish and Soviet forced labor during WWII, as well as Jewish women who 'passed' as Polish-Christian forced laborers as a survival strategy during the Holocaust. Lauren's master’s thesis, titled “Between Extermination and Child-Rearing: The Foreign Child-Care Facilities of Volkswagen and Velpke,” analyzed two 'foreign child-care facilities,' institutions established to accommodate infants born to Eastern European forced laborers in Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945. Lauren continued her research on 'foreign child-care facilities' in Hannover, Germany between 2018 and 2019 after being awarded a U.S. Fulbright Student Research Grant.
Awards
- 2024 Connaught International Scholarship University of Toronto
- 2020 Kornberg-Jezierski Essay Prize in Holocaust Studies Anne Tannenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
- 2020 Polonicum Centre of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners Scholarship Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Toronto
- 2020 NAWA International Student Scholarship Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
- 2020 NAWA International Student Scholarship Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
- 2019 U.S. Student Fulbright Research Grant U.S. Department of State
- 2017 Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship Auschwitz Jewish Center
- 2017 Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Summer Graduate Research Assistantship United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Education
Cohort
- 2019-2020