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Andrea Pitzer

Andrea Pitzer is the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, forthcoming in September 2017

Latest articles by Andrea Pitzer

The Big Idea
Anne Frank, and America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the HolocaustAnne Frank, and America’s dangerously shallow understanding of the Holocaust
The Big Idea

It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.

By Andrea Pitzer