As part of the Humanities Center’s Fall 2025 speaker series on New Histories of Fascism, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, will introduce several of his recent books on the history of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized, and much-portrayed. But major aspects of its history have also been overlooked. Drawing on Nazi documents, diaries, post-war testimonies, and even fiction and spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and its global repercussions, Stone's work reveals how the idea of the Holocaust as "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. In works such as his forthcoming history of the Holocaust in Romania, he shows the depth of collaboration across Europe, arguing persuasively that we need to stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. Stone ultimately argues for the importance of understanding the true lessons of the Holocaust in our age of increasing nationalism, xenophobia, and democratic backsliding.

Stone is the author of many books, including Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019), Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories (Routledge, 2021), The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023), Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He also recently co-edited volume 1 of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust (2025).

This lecture will be held virtually on Zoom (register for details) and is free and open to the public.