Carol Rittner R.S.M.

Roman Catholic, a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She is a Distinguished Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies Emerita and the Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies Emerita at Stockton University (New Jersey, USA).

Dr. Rittner has lectured widely in the USA, as well as in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Israel, Ireland, England, Sweden, Palestine, France, and South Africa.

Her most recent publications include Women, the Holocaust and Genocide (2020); Advancing Holocaust Studies (2021); The Memory of Goodness: Eva Fleischner and Her Contributions to Holocaust Studies (2023); Holocaust Education Today: Confronting Extremism, Hate, and Mass Atrocity Crimes (2023); and Pluralizing Dialogue: Insights, Actions, and Implications in Eva Fleischner’s Judaism in German Christian Theology Since 1945 (2024).

Dr. Rittner was the Executive Producer of The Courage to Care (1986), an Academy Award-nominated documentary film about non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, and Triumph of Memory (1987), a documentary film about non-Jews who survived Nazi concentration camps during WW II and the Holocaust.

Dr. Rittner’s research interests include rescue during the Holocaust, women during the Holocaust and other genocides, and the use of rape as a weapon of war and genocide.

Dr. Rittner is the Editor of MercyWords, an E-journal.

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