Event at Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom to present new Holocaust research findings

New findings from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will be the topic of a presentation by Andrew Kloes next month in Pittsburgh.

A Penn Hills native, Kloes is a researcher at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Since 2016, he has contributed 72 articles to the museum’s “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.”

The presentation will cover new findings from Kloes’ research, as well as the archival sources and the historical research methods that are used to produce it.

“I plan to speak about the project as a whole, including the various archival sources we use for research, with a particular emphasis on volumes five and six, for which I have been writing content on forced labor camps for Jewish prisoners and Gestapo prisons in Germany and German-occupied Europe,” said Kloes, a 2007 graduate of Grove City College.

Kloes is part of a small team of editors, writers and researchers at the museum, plus hundreds of volunteers and scholars from around the world, that began working on the encyclopedia in 1999. When completed, it will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the Nazi camp system in existence.

Rodef Shalom Brotherhood’s Herzog Breakfast will be at 10 a.m. Feb. 9. It is free and open to the public at Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh.