Holocaust Geographies is a multi-institution collaboration on an NSF-sponsored grant received by geographers Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano. Across five studies, the project examines spaces and places of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust was a profoundly geographical event that caused mass displacement and migration, destroyed or fundamentally changed thousands of communities, and created hundreds of new places for the concentration of population, the exploitation of labor, and the mass murder of millions of people. As the Third Reich's ultimate solution to create a racially pure German empire, the Holocaust drove the mobilization of infrastructure and resources on an unprecedented scale. Yet the spatial characteristics and temporal dynamics of the Holocaust have scarcely been studied as explicitly geographical phenomena. Nor have scholars critically considered the complex and varied range of scales at which the events constituting the Holocaust took place, from the scale of the individual body to the continental expanse of Europe.