Professor Doris Bergen lecturing at the 2017 JFR Summer Institute for Teachers: Chapter 1 – “The Context” from How Was it Possible?: A Holocaust Reader.

Doris L. Bergen is the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on issues of religion, gender, and ethnicity in the Holocaust and World War II and comparatively in other cases of extreme violence. Her books include Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (1996); War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (2003); and others.

She has held grants and fellowships from the SSHRC, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Professor Bergen received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.