Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies

Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice is the Senior Historian and director of the Office of the Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. An historian with the Museum’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies since 1994, she serves as the Museum specialist on eugenic policies in the Nazi era and the persecution of persons with disabilities during the Holocaust. Dr. Heberer Rice earned a baccalaureate degree in history and German literature and a masters degree in history, both from Southern Illinois University; she pursued doctoral studies in European history at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland,  receiving her Ph.D. from the latter institution. 

In addition to contributions to several USHMM publications, she is the author of Children during the Holocaust, a volume in the Center’s series, Documenting Life and Destruction (Altamira Press, 2011) and the editor of Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective (Nebraska UP, 2008, co-edited with Juergen Matthäus).  She is currently the co-editor of Nazi Sites for Racial Persecution, Detention, Murder, and Resettlement of Non-Jews. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Vol. V (Indiana UP, with co-editor Jan Lambertz, in progress). She is a member of the consortium, ”Brain Research at the Institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Illegitimate Activities: Brain Specimens at the Institutes of the Max Planck Society and the Identification of the Victims.”