Nathan Stoltzfus
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Nathan Stoltzfus is an American historian and as of 2021[update] Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies in the history department at Florida State University. He has authored or edited many books.
Stoltzfus was educated at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, (B.A. 1978) and Harvard University (PhD, 1993).[1]
While working on his PhD at Harvard, he was awarded an Einstein Institution Fellowship, which supported his work on the Rosenstrasse protest, a 1943 street protest in which mostly women saved about 1,500 men from the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during World War II. Stoltzfus continued as a Graduate Affiliate of the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions.[2]
Career
Stolzfus is noted for his work on protest during the Nazi era,[3] particularly the Rosenstrasse Protest that has sparked debate and discussion about the possibility and impact of protest in Nazi Germany.[4]
Stoltzfus has done work on the impact of the Cold War and its demise on national memories and representations of World War II in several European countries.[citation needed]
