ספר מוביל
Memory · Resilience · Renewal
Historian of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Postwar displacement, survivor testimony, Jewish military service, and the long work of rebuilding.
Scholarly focus
Her scholarship examines what happened after liberation — how survivors reconstructed identity, family, and belonging across Europe, the United States, and Israel — and how memory of that reconstruction has been transmitted.
Postwar displacement, DP camps, migration, and the reordering of Jewish life in Europe.
Testimonies, resilience, and the active work of reconstruction after 1945.
Jewish soldiers, veterans, and the meaning of service across national contexts.
Transmission of memory and the long history of Jewish rebuilding.
Featured book
How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II
Indiana University Press · 2024
A study of the 550,000 Jewish American soldiers who served in World War II — their motivations, their experience of the war, and the complex identity they carried home.
Displaced Persons and the Making of Postwar Jewish Life · 2018
France, the United States, and Israel · 2018
Edited volume on Jewish responses during and after the Shoah
Featured media
Sample featured recording · Approx. 55 min
"A meticulous and deeply humane study of what came after liberation."
"Ouzan restores agency to survivors and reframes how we understand the postwar decades."
"A landmark contribution to the history of Jewish reconstruction."
היסטוריונית של השואה ותקופת שלאחריה. מחקר על עקורים, ניצולים ושיקום החיים היהודיים לאחר 1945.