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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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”.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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)”.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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)”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

­­­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.”

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

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".
 

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

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".

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-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".

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

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

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".

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".

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".

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

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".

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”.

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.

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"