Fellowships

Nora KrugArtist-in-Residence

Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies internationally, and in editions of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and Best Non-Required Reading. She is a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, and others. Her illustrations have been recognized with gold and silver medals by the Society of Illustrators and the NY Art Directors Club, and her animations were shown at the Sundance Festival. Krug was named Illustrator of the Year 2019 by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Krug’s visual memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home (Scribner, 2018), about WWII and her own German family history, was chosen as a best book of the year by the New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and others. It was the winner of many awards, including the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and the British Book Design and Production Award. Her collaboration with historian Timothy Snyder, a graphic edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Ten Speed Press, 2021), a guide for resisting authoritarianism, was named a Best Graphic Novel of 2021 by the New York Times, a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and one of Germany’s Most Beautiful Books of 2022. Diaries of War, her recent book of graphic journalism that chronicles the contrasting experiences of a Ukrainian journalist and a Russian artist, both grappling with the realities of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the Overseas Press Club’s Best Cartoon Award runner-up citation and was named one of Germany’s Most Beautiful Books of 2024.

Krug is Associate Professor of Illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. She holds a B.A. Honours degree in Performance Design from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a Diplom in Visual Communications from the University of Arts Berlin, and an M.F.A. in Illustration as a Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

During her tenure at Yale, Krug will be conducting research to produce an illustrated book based on materials at the Fortunoff Archive and witness testimony as part of a SSHRC grant project entitled Narrative Art and Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.

Michala Jandák LončíkováFortunoff Archive Fellow

Michala Jandák Lončíková is is a historian who defended her dissertation on antisemitic propaganda in Slovakia and the Independent State of Croatia. Her main research interest is modern Jewish history in the 20^th century, especially the Holocaust in Slovakia and its aftermath. She participated in several research projects, for instance, “Pogroms in East and East Central Europe: Collective Violence and Popular Culture” (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) and “Genocide, Postwar Migration and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews” (GAČR, EXPRO).

Currently, she works at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague and at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (H 2020). Recently, she published a chapter, „ZWISCHEN »RASSE« UND KONFESSION. Die jüdische Bevölkerung in der Slowakei 1938 bis 1945“ in Martin Zückert (ed.), Handbuch der Religions- und Kirchengeschichte der Slowakei im 20. Jahrhundert.

As Fortunoff Fellow, Jandák Lončíková will produce an annotated critical edition of a Slovak testimony for our Critical Edition Series as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.

Matthew JohnsonFortunoff Archive Fellow

Matthew Johnson, is currently the Associate Senior Lecturer in Yiddish at the Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL). His teaching and research interests include Yiddish- and German-language cultural history, literature, and other media, translation theory and practice, and the history and representation of the Holocaust. His writing has or will soon appear in The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, German Studies Review, In geveb, and AJS Perspectives, among other venues, and he serves as a peer review editor at In geveb. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Faltering Language: On German-Yiddish Literature.

As Fortunoff Fellow, Johnson will produce an annotated critical edition of a Yiddish testimony for our Critical Edition Series as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.

Daniela Ozacky SternFortunoff Archive Fellow

Daniela Ozacky Stern is a scholar specializing in Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History, with a particular focus on Jewish resistance during World War II and the Holocaust. She is currently a lecturer at Western Galilee College in Israel and has previously served as the director of the Moreshet Holocaust Archive in Givat Haviva, Israel. Dr. Ozacky Stern earned her PhD in Jewish History from the University of Haifa, where her research focused on Jewish Partisans in Lithuania and Belarus. She holds a master’s degree in History from Tel Aviv University, having studied Nazi propaganda efforts led by Joseph Goebbels, a topic which she later published as a book, Goebbels: Nazi Master of Illusion.

Her academic journey is further enriched by postdoctoral research conducted at Yad Vashem, and she has been honored as a USHMM EHRI fellow. Dr. Ozacky Stern’s published works investigate various facets of Holocaust history in Eastern Europe, including studies on the Vilna Ghetto, smaller ghettos in Belarus, and the partisan forests. Her research interests extend to themes such as documentation, diaries, and archival materials. Additionally, she has contributed to scholarship in the field of modern Jewish history, and serves as the Book Review Editor for the journal Jewish Culture and History.

Andrei KureichikFortunoff Archive Fellow, Playwright-in-Residence

Andrei Kureichik is a playwright, director, publicist and civil activist who has written more than 30 movies and TV films. He is the author of more than 30 plays which were performed in many theaters in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland and other countries. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Law from Belarusian State University.

The author’s latest work was the film script for Moving Up, a film about the brilliant victory of the USSR national team in basketball at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. It became the highest-grossing film of Russian cinema in its entire history. His films have grossed over $190 million in theaters in Eastern Europe.

Kureichik has gained an international following as a political playwright. He produced the documentary play “Insulted. Belarus(sia)”, about the 2020 presidential elections, subsequent protests, and violent crackdown by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus. The play has already been translated into 29 languages and received 200 readings and performances across the globe.

Kureichik has become the first Belarusian Yale World Fellow in 2022 at Jackson’s School of Global Affairs at Yale University. He plans to write a play based on testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive during his fellowship.