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Sarah Wildman ’96

Sarah Wildman ’96 won the $10,000 Peter R. Weitz Prize from the German Marshall Fund for excellence and originality in reporting on Europe and the transatlantic relationship. Her five-part series, “Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives,” was published in Slate in January 2009. Entwining personal family history with the larger struggle to categorize, analyze, and understand Nazi records and survivor accounts, Wildman examined the International Tracing System (ITS), the world’s largest Holocaust archive, located in Bad Arolsen, Germany. “The story of Bad Arolsen has been told, but not like this…with such detail, dogged pursuit, passion, and deeply felt, first-person storytelling,” said one judge. While her search was ultimately inconclusive, the series illustrated the difficulties facing the field and the shadow the Holocaust continues to cast over Europe. Wildman writes about foreign policy and culture wars for Politics Daily, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and the Guardian.
Sarah Wildman ’96 won the $10,000 Peter R. Weitz Prize from the German Marshall Fund for excellence and originality in reporting on Europe and the transatlantic relationship. Her five-part series, “Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives,” was published in Slate in January 2009. Entwining personal family history with the larger struggle to categorize, analyze, and understand Nazi records and survivor accounts, Wildman examined the International Tracing System (ITS), the world’s largest Holocaust archive, located in Bad Arolsen, Germany. “The story of Bad Arolsen has been told, but not like this…with such detail, dogged pursuit, passion, and deeply felt, first-person storytelling,” said one judge. While her search was ultimately inconclusive, the series illustrated the difficulties facing the field and the shadow the Holocaust continues to cast over Europe. Wildman writes about foreign policy and culture wars for Politics Daily, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times and the Guardian.