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Jamie L. Wraight, Ph.D. Curator and Historian, The Voice/Vision
Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
The University of Michigan-Dearborn
Mardigian Library
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491
(313) 583-6300
Fax: (313) 593-5561
Bio:
Jamie L. Wraight graduated with a BA in history in 1994 and an MA in Modern European history in 1996, receiving both degrees from the University of Toledo. His Master’s Thesis entitled, The Eichmann Trial, The Barbie Trial and American Perceptions of the Holocaust During the Cold War, examined American attitudes toward the Holocaust in the 1960s and 1980s. He received his PhD in Modern German history in December 2004. His dissertation, entitled , “Die Schlechte Seite”: Holocaust Survivors and Perceptions of Region, Landscape, Space and Place in Auschwitz, provides a new approach to examining Holocaust survivor memory and the landscape of Auschwitz.
In the Summer of 1995, Jamie interned at the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Photo Archive in Washington, D.C. While there, he helped catalog the archive’s photographs and wrote biographies and photo captions. In 1997, he was named a Fellow of the Holocaust Education Foundation and attended the Foundation’s Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University. He has also participated in the Holocaust Education Foundation’s Eastern European Study Seminar in both 2001 and 2003. As a participant, Jamie was able to travel extensively throughout Eastern Europe, visiting Holocaust related sites in Poland, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine. He has served as the curator and historian of the Voice/Vision Survivor Oral History Archive since May 2000.
Jamie has written several book reviews for the H-Judaic listserv, including Michael Marrus’ The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1945-1946: A Documentary History and William D. Rubenstein’s The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews. In addition to online reviews, Jamie has also written reviews for The German Studies Review and has published an article on the Eichmann Trial in History in Dispute: The Holocaust.