UVM Senior and Holocaust Studies Minor Julia Kitonis and friend
Julia Kitonis is a Senior theatre major and Holocaust studies minor from northern Vermont. She declared her Holocaust studies minor at the start of her freshman year, the program being one of the many things that drew her to UVM. Having completed the basic European history requirement in advance of starting at UVM, she was able to enroll immediately in Professor Jonathan Huener’s class in Polish history. Having completed that course, she was then able to enroll at the beginning of her sophomore year in a research seminar on the Holocaust in Poland. In the context of that course, she was able to undertake research on a topic that embraced both her fields of study at UVM: the function of the performance arts in the Warsaw Ghetto. That research paper that emerged from that course is one of her proudest accomplishments and has become an important part of her graduate school application dossiers. It is also a testame