Conny Kristel Fellows 2016-2023

On this page, we present the EHRI Conny Kristel Fellows from the EHRI Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme 2021-2023 and the fellows that  took part in the EHRI Fellowship Programme 2016-2023. Fellows from previous calls can be found here: EHRI Fellows 2012, EHRI Fellows 2013, EHRI Fellows 2014. New calls will be published on this webpage.

Zeljka Oparnica

Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center

Zeljka Oparnica is a Jewish history fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. She received her doctoral degree from Birkbeck, University of London. Her thesis historicized Sephardi politics between 1900 and 1940.

Yael Robinson Gottfeld

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Yael Robinson Gottfeld is a PhD Student at the University of Tel Aviv at the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archeology. Her research focuses on the Holocaust aftermath in Poland. In her dissertation she examines the phenomenon of intermarriage in the context of anti-Jewish violence in the first years after World War II.

Visar Malaj

Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center

Visar Malaj is associate professor at the Department of Economics, University of Tirana and a “CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow”. Visar earned a Bachelor’s degree (2007) and a Master’s degree (2009) from the Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua (Italy). In 2010, Visar completed his post-graduate studies in Economics and Finance at the University of Venice, and in 2013 he received a PhD in Economics from the University of Tirana. In 2015, Visar received a “Civil Society Scholar Award” from the Open Society Foundations; and in 2016 he completed an EU-financed post-doctorate at the University of Granada.

Verena Buser

Yad Vashem

Verena Buser’s research focuses on the areas of Hachshara and non-Zionist emigration preparations; childhood and youth during and after the Shoah; the forced Germanization of Polish children, and Jewish functionaries under Nazi rule. Dr. Buser’s work was among others supported by the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Hadassah Brandeis Institute or the Szloma-Albam-Foundation in Berlin.

Tehila Darmon-Malka

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Tehila Darmon-Malka is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Herzog College in Jerusalem. She received her PhD in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, “Between Survivors and Victims – Missing Persons After the Holocaust,” was written at Ben-Gurion University. The research included multidisciplinary aspects in an attempt to point to the issue of missing persons as a significant aspect that greatly influenced the case of personal, social, and national rehabilitation after World War II.

Tadek Markiewicz

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Tadek Markiewicz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala. He received his PhD (International Conflict Analysis) from the University of Kent. His research focuses on the role of vulnerability and victimhood in states’ security practices. These themes are investigated in his book (forthcoming) “The Vulnerability of Strong States: Ontological Insecurity as Warfare Practice”. Currently, Tadek is working on a project about memory politics in Poland.

Nicole Toedtli

Yad Vashem | Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Nicole Toedtli is a PhD candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Geneva and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked at the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and the Arolsen Archives.

Nicolas Garraud

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Nicolas Garraud is a Ph.D. Student in History at Exeter College and a Doctoral Fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, with a specific interest in the history of every-day life under Nazi occupation in Poland. He is interested in how Jews, as a fragmented and plural community, experienced and made sense of the events happening before them during years of persecutions and extermination.

Niamh Hanrahan

Arolsen Archives

Niamh Hanrahan is a Ph.D. student in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Her project focuses on Jewish refugees who made the journey from Europe to Japan to escape Nazi persecution and the aid networks which assisted them. 

Mirjam Neuhoff

Yad Vashem | Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center

Mirjam Neuhoff is doctoral candidate in Modern History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich. She holds a BA and MA in History and studied in Munich and Venice.

Miranda Brethour

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Miranda Brethour is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Her dissertation, "Faithful German Servants" or "Good Polish Citizens"? Violence, the Village Elder, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, traces the history of Polish village elders from the Second Republic to the postwar years, focusing on their participation in anti-Jewish violence during the German occupation in the Lublin region. 

Lauren Ashley Bradford

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Lauren Ashley Bradford is a Doctoral Candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She holds a BA in History and German Studies from Gettysburg College and an MA in European History, Politics, and Society from Columbia University. Bradford’s dissertation research is a comparative project that focuses on white and “Aryan” women who openly participated in public displays of violence in Jim Crow America and Nazi Germany.

Tamás Kisantal

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Tamás Kisantal is an associate professor at the University of Pécs, Hungary. His main research fields are narrative problems of historical writing, contemporary theory of history, and artistic representations of the Holocaust.

He is the author of three books on the cultural history of the Holocaust memory and representation. His last monograph, Az emlékezet és a felejtés helyi (Places of Memory and Forgetting, 2020), concentrated on the literature of the Holocaust published in Hungary immediately after the war.

Jonathan Lanz

Yad Vashem | Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

Jonathan Lanz is a historian of childhood, Modern Jewish History, and the Holocaust. He is currently a fourth-year doctoral student in History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His dissertation project examines the lives and memories of the ‘Birkenau Boys,’ a group of 89 male child survivors from the Theresienstadt Family Camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Jonathan received a B.A. in World History with distinction at Georgetown University in 2019 and an M.A. in European History at Indiana University in 2021.

Jennifer Putnam

Bundesarchiv

Jennifer Putnam is a PhD candidate in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her PhD research focuses on prisoner graffiti in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos with the aim of enhancing our understanding of prisoners’ daily lives and prisoner agency, as well as elevating non-survivor testimony. This research has been supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Bonnart Trust.

Hannah Claudia Riedler

Bundesarchiv

Hannah Claudia Riedler has obtained a master’s degree with a focus on Eastern European history at the University of Vienna. She is currently a doctoral student and project assistant at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Hadas Gabay

Jewish Museum in Prague

Hadas Gabay is a PhD student in the Department of the Arts in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She holds a BA in the Department of Jewish Art and the Department of Educational Counseling, at Bar Ilan University, and an MA at the Department of Contemporary Judaism, Bar Ilan University. Hadas’s research focuses on the caricatures of Pavel Fantl from the Terezin ghetto.

Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak

Mémorial de la Shoah | The Wiener Holocaust Library | Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak, PhD, sociologist, a research fellow at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Author of articles and book chapters on Jewish life in Poland during and after the Holocaust; editor of several books, including Finkesztejn Family Correspondence (1939-1941), that has been published in English. She also coedited the collection of Hashomer Hatzair underground press printed in the Warsaw Ghetto (in print). Since 2014 she manages the Editorial Committee of Critical Re-edition of the Central Jewish Historical Commission’s in Poland Publications.

Cailee Davis

Jewish Museum in Prague

Cailee Davis is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, examining the shifting modalities of transnational Holocaust representation across media, including film, television, architecture, digital media, and literature, in the new millennium. She is especially interested in the phenomenon of metareferentially, the act of self-reflexively drawing attention to the artifice of the work and/or the medium, within these works.

Bożena Iwanowska

Bundesarchiv | Arolsen Archives

Bożena Iwanowska, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Economics and Human Sciences (Warsaw, Poland) and Director of the UEHS Academic Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research. She received her three Master’s degrees in English Philology and Interpreting, Cultural Studies and Political Studies at the University of Białystok (Poland) and Lancaster University (UK).

Aleksandra Sajdak

Yad Vashem

Aleksandra Sajdak is a PhD candidate at the Polish Academy of Science in the Institute of Literary Research. She works as a Genealogist and researcher at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute as well as the Taube Center for the Jewish Life and Learning as a Senior Program Manager, Researcher and Educator. Her PhD project is an exploration of the term “zamlen”, understood as a concept of historical scholarship in service to the Jewish community.

Abigail Lewis

Mémorial de la Shoah

Abigail Lewis received her PhD in European History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. She currently serves as a postdoctoral research associate and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the recipient of several fellowships from the George L. Mosse Program in History, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Embassy of France in the United States, the Society for French Historical Studies, the Western Society for French History, and the Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique.

Volodymyr Zilinskyi

Yad Vashem

Volodymyr Zilinskyi is a senior custodian at the State Archive of the Lviv region and a lecturer at the National University “Lviv Polytechnic”. He was born in Sambir,Lviv region, Ukraine, in 1991 and graduated from the History Department of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2013.

Tamar Aizenberg

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Tamar Aizenberg is a PhD student in Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. She holds a BA in History and Jewish Studies from Williams College. Tamar’s research focuses on the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and the grandchildren of perpetrators.

Rachel Perry

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien | The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute | Jewish Museum in Prague

Rachel Perry received her MA and PhD in Art History from Harvard University. She currently teaches in the Weiss Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and in the History of Art department at Tel Aviv University. She is the recipient of several EHRI Fellowships, a Sharon Abramson Research Grant, a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at CASVA and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research.

Nataliia Ivchyk

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Nataliia Ivchyk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Rivne State University of Humanities in Ukraine. Since May 2022, she has been supported by the Neuron Endowment Fund at the Department of Russian and East European Studies of the Institute of International Studies, Prague, Czech Republic.

Laura Hobson Faure

Yad Vashem | The Wiener Holocaust Library

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058).

Karianne Hansen

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History | Arolsen Archives

Karianne Hansen is a third-year doctoral student at the Stanley Burton Centre for the study of the Holocaust and Genocide at the University of Leicester. Her doctoral thesis examines the construction of national identity among prisoners categorised as Norwegian political and racial enemies in the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Jessa Sinnott

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Jessa Sinnott is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, where she holds the Sidney and Rosalie Rose Fellowship. Prior to beginning her PhD, she completed a master’s degree in European Studies at New York University. Sinnott’s dissertation project is a microstudy on neighborhood and pogrom violence in Nazi occupied Poland.

Corneliu Pintilescu

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Corneliu Pintilescu is a researcher at the George Bariţiu Institute of History in Cluj-Napoca. He has a PhD in History from the Babeş-Bolyai University. His research interests include emergency powers and dictatorial regimes in twentieth century Romania, political opposition and state coercion in the Eastern Bloc, and nationalities policies in post-war Romania.

Anna Veronica Pobbe

Mémorial de la Shoah | Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

Anna Veronica Pobbe, PhD, is a Postdoc Researcher at the Deutsches Historisches Institut (Rome) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Milan. Her main research interests are focused on  the themes of Nazi ghettos, Nazi economic policies, perpetrator research and trauma studies.  She is developing a new project concerning postwar trials and Nazi criminals who converted to Catholicism. 

Angeliki Gavriiloglou

Yad Vashem | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Angeliki Gavriiloglou is a PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the department of Philosophy and Humanities, Modern – Greek studies. She is an ELES research Fellow. She has graduated from the department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She concluded her Master’s degree in Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean studies at the International Hellenic University.

András Szécsényi

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

András Szécsényi is a research fellow in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (Budapest) and holds a Ph.D. degree from ELTE (Budapest). He has worked as Head of Collections in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest between 2005 and 2017.

Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych

Yad Vashem

Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, Hebraist, and sociologist. She graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Inter-faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities and gained another degree from the Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. Her PhD (defended in January 2021 at the University of Warsaw) is devoted to the fate of the orphaned children in the Warsaw Ghetto.

EHRI Fellow Frank Uiterwaal

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Frank Uiterwaal is an information analyst for the Collections & Services Department at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He is in charge of the processes, digital infrastructure and services that are needed to sustainably preserve and provide access to NIOD's collections. He is also active as a work package leader for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) in the EHRI-PP project.

EHRI Fellow Rachelle Gloudemans

Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center CDEC

Rachelle Gloudemans is a PhD candidate in contemporary Italian literature at KU Leuven. Previously, she obtained an MA in Italian literature and culture, and an MRes in Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral research project, funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), zooms in on the constructions of transcultural memories and identities in the works written in Italian by translingual Jewish authors who migrated to Italy from various regions in Europe and the Middle-East since the 1940’s.

EHRI Fellow Morgan Morales

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Morgan Morales is a third year PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in the United States. Before beginning her studies at UNC, she completed her undergraduate work at the University of California, Irvine, and then completed two Masters degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington in History and Jewish Studies.

EHRI Fellow Michal Kowalski

Yad Vashem | Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History | Bundesarchiv

Michał Kowalski is a PhD candidate in history at University of Wroclaw. He is a lawyer (University of Gdansk) and long-term historical journalist. He is specialized in the methodology of research on the Holocaust and in the Holocaust in the Polish province.

In 2018, he started a research project in a province near to Treblinka death camp and since 2020 he works on a doctoral dissertation “Poisoned Land. Influence of the Treblinka death camp on local Jewish and Polish communities 1939/1941 – 1964”.

EHRI Fellow Krzysztof Kocjan

Yad Vashem | Bundesarchiv

Krzysztof Kocjan is an independent researcher. He studied Social Anthropology and Law at University of Warsaw. Krzysztof was a fellow of Tempus program at Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

He translated into Polish books by Mircea Eliade, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Le Goff, Georges Dumezil & Didier Eribon.

EHRI Fellow Johannes Meerwald

Yad Vashem

Johannes Meerwald is a PhD candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He studied History, Spanish and Political Science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and the Philipps University in Marburg. His research interests include the history of the Holocaust, the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp, and the persecution of Spanish Republicans during the Nazi era. In his dissertation project Meerwald examines the late phase of the Holocaust in the southern part of Bavaria.

EHRI Fellow Daniela Ozacky Stern

Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History

Daniela Ozacky-Stern is a scholar of the Holocaust and World War II. She earned her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Jewish History at The University of Haifa, Israel, studying the Jewish partisans in the forests of Lithuania and Belarus during the Holocaust.

EHRI Fellow Barnabas Balint

Yad Vashem

Barnabas Balint is a doctoral candidate at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. His multi-lingual research (English, French and Hungarian) combines the history of childhood, gender, and identity to explore the lives of Jewish youth during persecution in Hungary.

EHRI Fellow Alex Scheepens

Yad Vashem

Alex Scheepens is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his M.A. in European Studies (2016) and B.A. in International Relations and History (2014), both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed a second M.A. in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2021).

His current research employs both a geographical lens and the history of emotions and centers on the Jewish experience in hiding in Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Koppermann

The Shoah Memorial France | Yad Vashem

Ulrike Koppermann is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the Justus Liebig University Gießen. She received her BA in German and English Language and Literature from Potsdam University and her MA in Literature from Viadrina European University. Since 2019, she is a research associate in the EU-project “Visual History of the Holocaust Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age“.

Wals

Yad Vashem

Tobias Wals is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (Germany). He received his MA in Slavic and East European Studies from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and previously worked as a research assistant at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Netherlands).

Kyrchiv

The Shoah Memorial France

Ulyana Kyrchiv is a Ph.D. student at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine). The topic of her thesis is an intellectual biography of Piotr Rawicz. Her research interests include interethnic relations in Galicia in the interwar period, the question of their influence on the shaping of identities, and how these relations influenced the experience of the Holocaust and later its reflection in fiction and publicistics.

Leroy

Bundesarchiv

Théophile Leroy is a Phd student at the Historical Research Center of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. He studies the persecutions and genocide of the Rhine Sinti families occurring in Alsace and Moselle, two territories annexed and ruled by German authorities.

Coenen Snyder

Kazerne Dossin | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Saskia Coenen Snyder (PhD University of Michigan, 2008) is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. She is the author of Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe, published by Harvard University Press in 2013. Her second book, entitled A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds, Jews, and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Commerce (Oxford University Press, 2022) examines the role of European, South African, and American Jews in the 19th c. diamond industry.

Karthashova

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute | The Wiener Holocaust Library

Olga Kartashova is a Ph.D. candidate in Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University. She specializes in the history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, its aftermath, memory, historiography, and trials. She holds MA degrees in Comparative History from Central European University and Holocaust Studies from Haifa University. She completed internships at Yad Vashem, Ghetto Fighters’ House, and Open Society Archives in Budapest. Olga worked as a researcher at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on a project devoted to genocides and justice broadly.

Suveica

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania | Yad Vashem

Svetlana Suveica, PD Dr.hab., is a Moldovan-born historian of East and Southeast European history. She is currently substituting the Professorship of Modern East European History at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Previously, she has taught courses and pursued research at the University of Regensburg and the Moldova State University in Chisinau.

Oksana Baigent

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

Oksana Baigent is a PhD student in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. Her research explores the rise of non-state led Holocaust memorialisation efforts in Ukraine in the Digital Age and challenges the widely held notion of ‘absent’ or ‘suppressed’ memory of the Holocaust in modern Ukraine. She is a fellow of American Jewish Archives and Royal Historical Society Member. Oksana speaks Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, English, German and Yiddish and code in the programming language Python3.

Mykola Makhortykh

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Kazerne Dossin

Mykola Makhortykh is a postdoctoral researcher in Communication and Data Science at the University of Bern. His research focuses on the impact of algorithmic systems and AI on online communication and interactions with the traumatic past.

Michał Trebacz

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Dr. Michał Trebacz is head of the research department at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews and an Associate Professor at the Center for the Jewish Studies, University of Łódź. He holds an MA and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Philosophy and History of the University of Łódź.

His main area of research specializes in twentieth-century socio-political history with a special focus on Jewish history and biographical studies.

Máté Zombory

Yad Vashem

Máté Zombory, sociologist, is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. His field of interest is the historical sociology of transnational and cultural memory. He is author of Traumatársadalom. Az emlékezetpolitika történeti-szociológiai kritikája (Trauma Society. A Historical-Sociological Critique of the Politics of Memory) (2019) and Maps of Remembrance. Space, Belonging and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe (2012).

Maria Pantazi

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Maria Pantazi is an ΜΑ student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her  research field circumscribes Modern and Contemporary History with the focus on the Christian-Jewish relations in Thessaloniki in interwar years and the transformation of those relationships during the Holocaust. For her thesis she works on the social and survival networks developed in Thessaloniki during the deportations of the Jews.

Judith Vöcker

Bundesarchiv

Judith Vöcker is a doctoral candidate at the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. Her dissertation is supervised by Svenja Bethke and Klaus Richter and funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Trainingship Programme. Before starting her PhD, she studied Slavic Studies and German literature and linguistics in Cologne, Cracow and Moscow, and Eastern European History in Frankfurt Oder and London.

Hanna Abakunova

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute | Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Hanna (Anna) Abakunova currently is a postdoctoral researcher at Yad Vashem (Israel). She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield (UK) with the dissertation entitled “The Rescue and Self-Help of Jews and Roma in Ukraine during the Holocaust”.

Dr. Abakunova is the co-author of the “Annotated Bibliography on the Genocide and Persecution of Roma and Sinti” published by IHRA (2016) and the author of other publications on the extermination and rescue of Jews and Roma in Ukraine published in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Romania, and the USA. In 2008-2017 she held Visiting Research Fellow positions at a number of institutions including the NIOD (Amsterdam), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the New Europe College (Bucharest), Yahad-in Unum (Paris), and Yad Vashem (Jerusalem).

Hana Green

Bundesarchiv | Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

Hana Green is a Doctoral Candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a Claims Conference fellow. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., she completed a master's degree in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. Green’s research project explores the experiences of Jewish women who passed as Aryan gentiles during the Holocaust.

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies | State Archives of Belgium

Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe is a research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied at the Viadrina European University and holds a PhD in history from the University of Hamburg. He published several books and articles, and edited three volumes about the Holocaust in East Central Europe, transnational fascism in Western and Eastern Europe, antisemitism at European universities, and the history of multiethnic cities.

Galit Haddad

The Shoah Memorial France

Galit Haddad is a historian and scholar of contemporary French history. Since 2016, she serves as researcher in the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University. She is also a Research Associate in the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS), and a member of the advisory committee of historians of the International Research Center at the Historial de la Grande Guerre in France.

Kazerne Dossin

Frank van Doorn received his master’s degree in contemporary political and societal history at Utrecht University (2011), where he specialised in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Currently, he is a researcher at the Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC), and is seconded to Stichting Erfgoed Brabant, both in ’s-Hertogenbosch.

His present PhD-research at Tilburg University concerns the persecution of Jews in the Dutch province of North Brabant during the Second World War.

Eugenia Mihalcea

Arolsen Archives

Eugenia Mihalcea is a Ph.D. candidate in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. In her doctoral dissertation (supervised by Prof. Stefan Ihrig), The Holocaust in Transnistria: Its (Hi)story and Post-war Memory, she examines how Transnistria was created as the space for the implementation of the Holocaust and how it was (re)created during the post-war period in Romania and Israel.

Emil Kjerte

The Wiener Holocaust Library

Emil Kjerte is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. He has a BA in history from the University of Copenhagen and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Uppsala University. His dissertation focuses on the guard force stationed at the Jasenovac concentration camp complex.  

Emanuele Edallo

Arolsen Archives

Emanuele Edallo took a PhD in History at the University of Milan and an MA in Holocaust Studies at the University of Roma Tre. After a four years post-doc, he is now Adjunct Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Milan (La Statale) and researcher at the University of Milan Bicocca. His studies focus mainly on fascism, antisemitism, racial laws and the Holocaust in Italy and Europe.

Ellen Johnson

Bundesarchiv | Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Ellen Johnson is a PhD candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University where she holds the Suesser Fellowship. She received her MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Kean University in Union, New Jersey in 2018. Her research focuses on intergroup relations amongst Jewish prisoners from across Europe in the Riga ghetto.

Carmel Heeley

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Carmel Heeley is a PhD candidate at the Leo Baeck Institute London, Queen Mary University London. Her thesis ‘German Jews, German Gentiles and the Alps: How Conceptions of Heimat, Bavarian Traditions and Moral Values defined ‘German’ Belongings and German-Jewish experience, 1920-1940’ focuses on how German Jews were important in forming and propagating the ways in which ‘belonging’ was imagined in Germany, and how their ideas were later turned on their heads by the Nazis.

Alexandra M. Szabó

Arolsen Archives | Yad Vashem

Alexandra M. Szabó is a PhD student at Brandeis University in the field of history and a researcher of the project “Revisiting Early Testimonies of Hungarian Jewish Holocaust Survivors through a Digital Lens” at the Research Center for Computational Social Science, ELTE University. She graduated from ELTE in literary and cultural studies, as well as from the Central European University in history with a Jewish Studies specialization.

Ales Kleiss

Bundesarchiv | Arolsen Archives

Alex Kleiss is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Salzburg. He holds a Master’s degree in History from the University of Salzburg and a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Alex is a freelance historian and he works as an educator and project staff member at the memorial site of Hartheim Castle and the Mauthausen Memorial (Austria). His research interests focus on National Socialist “euthanasia”, Holocaust and genocide studies, and Holocaust education.

Agata Fijalkowski

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Agata Fijalkowski is a Reader at Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University, UK. Agata completed her Ph.D. at the University of London. She has published widely in the field of transitional justice and is concerned with the (mal)administration of justice in former Communist states, in the immediate post-WW2 period.

Fellow Daan de Leeuw

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Daan de Leeuw is a PhD Candidate in History at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA. Mr. de Leeuw holds a BA (cum laude) and MA (cum laude) in History from the University of Amsterdam.

In his dissertation “The Geography of Slave Labor: Dutch Jews and the Third Reich, 1942-1945,” he analyzes the trajectories of Dutch Jewish slave laborers through German concentration and annihilation camps.

Laura Fontana

Arolsen Archives | CEGESOMA

Laura Fontana is considered to be one of the leading Holocaust educators with nearly 30 years of teaching experience. Since 1994 she has been in charge of an educational programme devoted to the teaching of the Holocaust under the name of “Education and Remembrance”. She has coordinated and led many international seminars, developed a variety of pedagogical units, lectures and written widely on all aspects of Holocaust education in Italy, France, Israel and Poland. From 2007-2010 she was appointed Director of the Historical Institute for Resistance in Rimini.

International Tracing Service

Nikolaus Hagen received his PhD from the University of Innsbruck, where he is a lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History. He is currently also a research fellow and assistant curator at the Jewish Museum in Munich.

Bundesarchiv Berlin

Maayan Armelin is a doctoral candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University and a Claims Conference fellow. Her research looks at social relations and leadership styles in the SS-Einsatzgruppen by combining historical and psychological approaches.

Bundesarchiv Berlin

Agnieszka Filipek holds a master’s degree in history and graduated from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in Lublin. She is a professional archivist, with several years of experience at the National Archives in Krakow, the Branch in Nowy Sącz.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Naama Seri-Levi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History  of  the  Jewish  People  and  Contemporary Jewry, and a fellow  of  the  Mandel  School  for Advanced  Studies  in  the  Humanities, both at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

International Tracing Service, Yad Vashem

Drs. Nicoletta I. Fotinos, M.A. Ed., M.A. is an independent Holocaust scholar and health care policy advisor with an interest in Gender, History of Medicine, Migration, Memoir and Testimony.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Sarah Ellen Zarrow is the Jaffe Professor of Jewish History at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on Jewish museums and education in interwar Poland.

International Tracing Service

Ewa Wiatr works at the Center for Jewish Research (University of Lodz). She completed her PhD at the Polish Academy of Science in 2018 with a dissertation on the everyday life in the Lodz Ghetto. She is a member of the editorial board of the "Lexicon of the Lodz Ghetto".

Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGESOMA)

Steffen Werther is Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is interested in German and Scandinavian history, with a focus on nationalism, racial theory, memory studies and (Neo-)Nazi movements and ideologies.

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies

Catherine Greer is a PhD Candidate in German Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a 2018-2020 Fellow with the Posen Society of Fellows. She most recently held the 2017-2018 Margit Meissner Fellowship for the Study of the Holocaust in Czech Lands at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)

Anne Chardonnens is currently a PhD candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles and a member of the Center for Research in Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC).

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Cynthia Dretel is a Ph.D. candidate at the historical musicology department of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, in Germany.

Jewish Museum Prague

Vojin Majstorovic received his PhD from University of Toronto in 2017. His research focuses on Soviet involvement in the Balkans and Central Europe in the 1940s.

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies

Katarzyna Wodarska-Ogidel is a curator of the prints and drawing collection and the memorabilia collection at the Theatre Museum in Warsaw. She is responsible for cataloguing, preparing and putting together studies of objects and archival documents from the museum’s collection as well as for collaborating with researchers from other institutions.

Bundesarchiv Berlin

Anna (Hanna) Abakunova currently is an advanced-standing doctoral researcher in Holocaust History at the University of Sheffield (supported by the Wolfson Scholarship) and an associate tutor for the undergraduate course “The Making of the Twentieth Century”. The title of her thesis is “The Rescue of Jews and Roma in Ukraine during the Holocaust”.

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust

Laura Ivanov conducts individual, names-based research and reference for families of Holocaust survivors and victims using the International Tracing Service (ITS) collection, as well as the Museum’s archival collections at the USHMM.

Jewish Museum Prague

Jakub Gawkowski is an art critic, curator and a graduate student at the History Department of Central European University. He studied at the University of Warsaw and the University of Silesia, from where he graduated with a degree in Art History.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Yanina Karpenkina is a Ph.D. candidate at The National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.

Bundesarchiv Berlin

Lukas Meissel is a PhD candidate in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University, his doctoral project analyses photographs taken by SS men at concentration camps.

Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Bundesarchiv Berlin

Paula Oppermann is a PhD candidate in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the Latvian Fascist Pērkonkrusts (Thunder Cross) Organisation, how it developed its ultra-nationalist, antisemitic ideology in the 1930s, and how this influenced its members’ actions during WWII.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Bundesarchiv Berlin

Anna Veronica Pobbe is a PhD-candidate at University of Trento.

Memorial de la Shoah

Dr. Laurence Prempain is an independent researcher with a focus on Immigration, Polish Migration, and Jewish Studies.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Karen Porter is a PhD Candidate at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She received her MSc in The Second World War in Europe from the University of Edinburgh in 2014.

Memorial de la Shoah, The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania

Oleg Surovtsev is an Assistant Professor at the Department of the History of Ukraine at Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Chernivtsi, Ukraine).

Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)

John R. Barruzza is a PhD candidate studying Modern European History at Syracuse University (New York, USA). Previously, he completed an MPhil in Modern European History at Syracuse University and an MA in European History at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA). His primary fields of research are modern and contemporary Italy, the Holocaust, and memory.

Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Bundesarchiv Berlin

Anton Hruboň is an assistant profesor at the Department of European Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia). In his research he focuses on the political and cultural history of Slovakia, Czechoslovakia and Central Europe in 1918 – 1945 and on a comparative study of European fascism and right-wing authoritarianism.

Yad Vashem, Wiener Library for the study of Holocaust & Genocide

Alexandru Muraru, PhD in Political Science (2012), is Researcher and Lecturer in Political Science at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania.

Yad Vashem

Sylwia Papier is a PhD student in the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where she also received her M.A. in cultural studies. Her academic interests include memory studies, theatre studies, heritage studies and trauma studies. Her PhD dissertation is focused on Holocaust studies and performative studies: she explores strategies of Holocaust witnessing in the genre of solo-theater.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Magdalena Semczyszyn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of National Remembrance, Branch in Szczecin, Poland. She is working on a project entitled “Illegal Jewish immigration from Poland to Palestine after the Second World War (1945–1948)”.

The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania

Gaelle Fisher is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Her current research The Jews of the ‘old Kingdom’ under the Antonescu Regime: Community and Subjectivity explores Jewish reactions and responses to incremental persecution in Romania in the period 1938 to 1948 and during the Holocaust under the Antonescu regime in particular.

Mémorial de la Shoah Paris

Rachel Perry is a research fellow at the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research at the University of Haifa. She lectures in the Weiss-Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at Haifa University as well as in the Art History department at Tel Aviv University. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in the department of Art History with a dissertation on art in France during the Occupation and Reconstruction.

Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte

Lennert Savenije is post-doctoral researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen. His post-doctoral research project Jewish working camps in the Netherlands, under the supervision of the Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij/Dutch Heathlandcompany concerns the so-called Jewish camps in the Netherlands between January and October 1942.

Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)

Susanna Schrafstetter received her PhD from the University of Munich in 1998. She has been a member of the faculty at the University of Vermont since 2009, serving as both a professor in the Department of History and as a member of the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies.

The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska studied Media at Moldova State University and Sociology at the Center for Social Studies and Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw, Poland. She is a PhD candidate in Sociology.

Yad Vashem, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

Florian Zabransky is a doctoral student at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. Since October 2017, he holds the Clemens N. Nathan Scholarship for his study on ‘Male Jewish Intimacy during the Holocaust’.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Judith Vöcker completed her MA in Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe at the European-University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder (Germany) and is now a PhD Candidate in History at the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University in Leicester. 

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Anca Filipovici is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania. She holds a PhD in history (2013) at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, on a topic related to education and local culture in northern Moldavia.

Yad Vashem

Simon Goldberg is a PhD candidate at Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, where he holds the Shirley and Ralph Rose Fellowship.

Yad Vashem

Philipp Dinkelaker, M.A. studied Modern History, Ancient History and Philosophy and recently published his master's thesis about the Sammellager Synagoge Levetzowstraße - a detention camp for Jews in Nazi-Berlin.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Marie-Dominique Asselin is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She is currently a fellow of the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies (2016-2018) fellows and her research has received funding from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2016-2019).

King's College London

Ronnen Harran is a PhD Candidate at the Jewish History department of the University of Haifa, Israel. His research The characteristics of the process of liquidating the Jewish communities in the Generalgouvernement in 1942-3 concers the process of liquidating the Jewish communities in the Generalgouvernement of occupied Poland during the notorious 'Aktion Reinhard'.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Adele Valeria Messina is an Italian historian of contemporary Europe whose interests revolve around a wide set of arguments about the Holocaust, sociology, anti-Semitism, totalitarianism, and digital humanities.

Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)

Elysa McConnell is a Ph.D candidate in History at the University of Ottawa. During her time at the CDEC she will be conducting research for her project The Holocaust in the Triveneto Borderlands: A study of the Jewish communities of Venezia Tridentina and Venezia Giulia under Fascist persecution and Nazi occupation, 1938-1945.

Yad Vashem, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Anne Lepper focusses in her dissertation project Saving lives at all costs. Adolf Silberschein, the 'Committee for Relief of the War-Stricken Jewish Population' and the Jewish rescue activities organized in Switzerland 1939-1945 at the Free Unviersity Berlin, on Switzerland as a focal point of international Jewish Aid activities during World War II.

Yad Vashem

Katarzyna Kocik -  is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Jewish Studies,  Jagiellonian University. She is an employee at the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, co-author of the temporary display Zegota- the Hidden Aid, a member of the research group preparing an exhibition at the memorial site of the former ZAL/KL Plaszow camp.

Yad Vashem, Wiener Library

Agnieszka Haska is a cultural anthropologist and sociologist working at Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. In her work she is interested in researching various topics about Holocaust in Poland, especially connected to the problem of collaboration and escapes from occupied Poland.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Daniela Ozacky-Stern has submitted her Ph.D. dissertation to the department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Her research deals with the Jewish Partisans in Lithuania and West Belarus during World War II and the Holocaust, 1941 – 1944 and is based mostly on about 300 personal testimonies of former partisans which she had collected in various archives in Israel and around the world.

Jewish Museum Prague, International Tracing Service

Dr Ewa Stańczyk is a Lecturer in East European Studies at the History Department, the University of Amsterdam. She will be working on a project entitled From Holocaust Survivors to Soldiers: the Haganah Recruitment in Eastern Europe (1946-1949).

Zoé Grumberg

Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGESOMA)

Zoé Grumberg is currently a PhD candidate in contemporary history at  the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po Paris (CHSP), under the supervision of Claire Andrieu. She graduated from Sciences Po Paris in June 2014 and successfully achieved the Agrégation d’histoire - French highest competitive exam which qualifies for teaching at high school and university - in 2015. At Sciences Po, she lectures a BA course on the political commitment in France in the twentieth century.

Antoine Burgard

International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen

Antoine Burgard holds a History PhD from Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). He is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (University of Manchester) and a fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. Alongside the publication of his thesis, he is currently working on a comparative history of Jewish refugee activism in the UK and Canada in the aftermath of World War 2 and the Hungarian Revolution.

Anne-Lise Bobeldijk

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien | Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ)

Anne-Lise Bobeldijk is a PhD candidate at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam, where she currently works on her research project “Competing narratives of victimhood in the age of transitional justice: The history and memory of the terrorscape Maly Trostenets”.

Marjo Bakker

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Marjo Bakker is subject librarian at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). She is responsible for the NIOD library policy, library acquisition and library access. Next to the library her focus is on research data management, open access publishing and scholarly communication. She is managing editor of the open access journal Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (Brill/NIOD). Marjo has a master’s degree in social and economic history and a bachelor’s in library and information science.

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies/ Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC)

Bieke Van Camp, PhD student, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France.

Memorial de la Shoah/Jewish Historial Institute Warschau

Janina Struk is an independent scholar, a photographer, writer and former Senior Lecturer at University of Westminster based in London.

Wiener Library

Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel is since May 2014 research fellow and coordinator at the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies in Halle.

Memorial de la Shoah, The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania

Iryna Radchenko is a PhD Candidate and is currently working on her research project “The Activities of charitable organizations in France and Romania during the Holocaust: a comparative aspect”.

Memorial de la Shoah

Emmanuelle Moscovitz is a PHD student at the University of Tel Aviv. The topic of her dissertation is the work of Jewish chaplains in French internment camps 1940-1945.

Jewish Museum in Prague

Dr Jan Láníček is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Languages, the University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia). His will be working on a project entitled: ‘The Holocaust on Trial: Czech Society confronts Crimes against the Jews and Roma (1945-53)’.

Mémorial de la Shoah

Inés Valle Morán (Spain) is an historian, postdoctoral researcher, and academic assistant at the Department of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Geography and History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Dr. Eran Zohar is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlia.

Mémorial de la Shoah

Nick Underwood received his PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in modern European and Jewish history.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Lucas Wilson, after completing his BA in English, summa cum laude, and returning to his home province of Ontario, went on to complete his MA in English from McMaster University.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

András Szécsényi is an historian, museologist and visiting lecturer. Szécsényi’s interests focus primarily on the history of the Horthy-era (youth movements, right-wing associations at the universities, and the Jewish question) and the social history of the Hungarian Holocaust.

International Tracing Service

Marcia Ras, PhD candidate, at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who is working on a project entitled “Argentinean victims of the Holocaust”.

International Tracing Service

Uta Rautenberg, PhD Candidate, University of Warwick, ‘Homophobia in Nazi Camps’.

Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin

Irina Makhalova, PhD Candidate, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia, Moscow).

Jewish Museum in Prague

Pavlo Khudish, Ph.D. is the assistant lecturer at the Uzhhorod National University at the department of the History of Ukraine (Uzhhorod, Ukraine). His is working on a project entitled: “Jews from Transcarpathia in the migration processes between Czechoslovakia and the USSR (1945-1948)”.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Laura Hobson Faure is associate professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and a research fellow at the Institut d’histoire du temps present (CNRS).

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Caroline Cormier is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, where she also received her M.A. in the Department of Geography and Planning in 2010.

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Dr. Mark Celinscak is the Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Executive Director of the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Mémorial de la Shoah

Sarit Bruno is a research and content oriented, writing professional, with a specific focus on writing and curating digital content: online exhibitions, articles, stories and films.

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Montassar Adaili is an MA student at Manouba University in Tunisia, majoring in history.

Ildikó Barna

Dr Ildikó Barna is Associate Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences in Budapest where she also serves as a Head of the Department of Social Research Methodology. She received a PhD in Sociology from ELTE in 2009.

Jewish Museum in Prague

Viktoriya Sukovata is a professor of the Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science Department, in Kharkiv, National Karazin University, Ukraine.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Roslyn Sugarman joined the Sydney Jewish Museum in late 2005 to guest curate the exhibition for the 60th anniversary of Liberation from the Concentration Camps.

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich/ The International Tracing Service

Franziska Anna Karpinski has a B.A. in American Studies and Modern European History from the Free University Berlin (2011), and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2012, cum laude).

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Hannah Wilson, Current PhD Student at Nottingham Trent University, UK. MA in Holocaust Studies from University of Haifa, Israel. 

Dr. Anna Koch

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Dr. Anna Koch, Teaching Fellow in Jewish History and Culture at the University of Southampton, “Suspicious Comrades: German Communists of Jewish Origin between Nazism and Stalinism, 1918-1952.”.

Kylie Thomas

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

­­­Kylie Thomas is a Research Associate at the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State, South Africa. “Amsterdam’s ‘Hunger Winter’ and the Photographs of Emmy Andriesse.”

International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen

Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Poland), Post-Doctoral Researcher, Polish-German Research Institute Collegium Polonicum, “Free-floating memory: the wartime experience of Polish Jewish deportees to Siberia outside the Holocaust and Gulag memory cultures”.

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Cristina Spinei is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in German Studies at the University of Iasi (Romania).

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Olga Radchenko, Associate Professor (docent), Chair of tourism and hotel business, Institute of Economics and Law, National Bogdan Chmelnički-University, Cherkassy, Ukraine. 

Wiener Library

Astrid Ley, deputy head of Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum (Brandenburg Memorials Foundation), Oranienburg, Germany, " Inmate physicians in concentration camps: the conditions in which they lived, the scope for action available to them, and the dilemmas they faced".
 

Wiener Library

Dr. Ümit Kurt is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a research focus on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

Gergely Kunt Ph.D. is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Magdalena Kubow, PhD, University of Western Ontario. Formerly a lecturer at King’s University College (Modern Languages Dept and History Dept), currently the Research Coordinator at the Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women & Children at the Faculty of Education (Western University).

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Andrea Kirchner, PhD Candidate, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main/ Germany; Research Fellow, Rosenzweig Center Hebrew University Jerusalem/Israel, "Richard Lichtheim (1885–1963) − From Constantinople to Geneva. A Political Biography".

Dominique Hipp

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien

Dominique Hipp (Germany), PhD candidate at the Graduate School “Factual and Fictional Narration”, University of Freiburg: “Narration of Violance – Reports on Dachau, Mauthausen and Ravensbrück”.

Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC)

Alexis Herr has researched, published, and taught courses on the Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish studies. She received her doctorate in Modern European History with an emphasis on Holocaust History from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. 

Anna Menyhert

King's College London

Anna Menyhért is a Hungarian writer and academic, currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture/Slavonic Studies Department.

Anna-Raphaela Schmitz

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

Anna-Raphaela Schmitz (Germany), PhD candidate University of Munich, and research assistant and doctoral student at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich,  “Rudolf Höß – Work Behaviour, Interpersonal Relations and Private Life of a Concentration Camp Commandant".

Irina Talevska

Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC)

Irina Talevska (Macedonia), Ph.D. candidate, SS Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, "Subject, Memory, Narration: Primo Levi and the Holocaust Literature".

Yurii Radchenko

Bundesarchiv, Berlin

Yurii Radchenko (Ukraine), Lector, Kharkiv Collegium, "Hilfspolizei, Self-government and the Holocaust in Ukrainian-Russian-Belorussian Borderland: Motivation, Identity, Collective Portrait and Memory".

Katharina Hering

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich / International Tracing Service

Katharina Hering (United States/Germany), Project Archivist, National Equal Justice Library, Georgetown Law Library, Washington, D.C., “The Ethics of Access to Case Files Documenting Reparation and Restitution Claims”.

Ron Coleman

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Ron Coleman, reference and systems librarian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Tracing Refugee Assistance Networks Using Case Files".

Chiara Renzo

Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide

Chiara Renzo (Italy), Ph.D candidate, Universities of Florence and Siena, “The Jewish Displaced Persons in Italian Refugee Camps (1943-1951)".

Mark Zaurov

Yad Vashem

Mark Zaurov, PhD Student, Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser (IDGS), Hamburg University, "a.) Deaf Holocaust Testimonies: Analyse of Video interviews b.) Deaf survivors: Archive sources & structure".

Serafima Velkovich

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Serafima Velkovich, researcher Yad Vashem,  "Locating the personal data regarding victims of the Holocaust".

Raquel Stepak

Mémorial de la Shoah

Raquel Stepak, researcher at the Laura Schwarz Kipp Center for Hebrew Literature and Culture, Tel-Aviv University, "There Are No Black Flowers by T. Carmi: An OSE Home for Child Survivors and Its Literary Representation".

Rachel O'Sullivan

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Rachel O'Sullivan, PhD student University of Edinburgh, "Drang nach Osten: The Volksdeutschen and the Nazi Colonial Campaign in Poland, 1939-1943".

Marta Zawodna

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Marta Zawodna, postdoctoral researcher, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Institute of Sociology, "Ways of handling the remains of Dachau camp victims in a comparative perspective. Content analysis of press articles published from the liberation of the camp to the sixties".

Maria Ferenc Piotrowska

Yad Vashem

Maria Ferenc Piotrowska, PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, “Sources and meanings of information in  the Warsaw Ghetto”.

Laurien Vastenhout

Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society / Mémorial de la Shoah

Laurien Vastenhout (the Netherlands), PhD student University of Sheffield, “The Jewish Councils of Western Europe under Nazi Occupation: A Comparative Analysis”.

Jason Tingler

Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Jason Tingler, PhD Candidate, Clark University, “Chełm Land, 1939-1944: Interethnic Relations and Mass Violence in Central Poland”.

Lonneke Geerlings

Bundesarchiv, Berlin

Lonneke Geerlings (The Netherlands), PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, "The Transnational Ego-Network of Rosey E. Pool (1905-1971). Dutch-German Contacts in 1930s Berlin in the Resistance Group Van Dien".

Beate Müller

Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich

Beate Müller, Reader in Modern German Studies, Newcastle University, "Fine Young Democrats? German Youth in OMGUS Surveys, 1945-49".

Raul Cârstocea

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies / King's College London

Raul Cârstocea, Senior Research Associate, European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany; “From the radical fringe to the mainstream: anti-Semitic representations in the interwar Romanian press, 1923-1941”.

Filippo Petrucci

Mémorial de la Shoah

Filippo Petrucci, Research Fellow, University of Cagliari, "Italian Jewish community in Tunisia in 1942-1943; its relationship with France, its relationship with Italy"

Ionela Ana Dascultu

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ionela Ana Dascultu completed her MA in Jewish Culture and Civilization at the University of Bucharest, Romania and is now a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Anna Maria Droumpouki

Bundesarchiv / International Tracing Service

Anna Maria Droumpouki, postdoctoral researcher, Research Center for Modern History - Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, "Repairing the Past: Holocaust Restitution in Greece"

Angela Boone

International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen

Angela Boone, independent researcher and supervisor, "German Jewish refugees in the Netherlands: Deportation of Holocaust survivors to Germany by the Dutch government in the period 1945-1950"

Aaldert Prins

Yad Vashem

Aaldert Prins (Belgium) Post-Doctoral Researcher Historical Theology, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven, “Protestant Evangelical Churches in Roman Catholic Countries and the Holocaust”.

Andrea Palašti

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Bundesarchiv / Wiener Library

Andrea Palašti, visual artist, independent curator, Lecturer in Visual communications of the Department for New media at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad, "Portraits and memories"