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"

Andrea Palašti is a visual artist, independent curator and lecturer, based in Novi Sad, Serbia. Andrea holds a master’s degree in Photography at the Academy of Art, University of Novi Sad. In 2015, she graduated with PhD in Art and media theory from the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is active in the field of research and exhibition practice that experiments with archives, methodologies and contextual aspects of art, which emphasizes issues of cultural geography and the everyday life. She has recently been appointed as a Lecturer in Visual communications of the Department for New media at the Academy of Art in Novi Sad.

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

Aaldert Prins (Belgium) graduated from the Evangelical Theological Faculty (ETF) in 1991 with a Licentiate in Theology. From 1991-2002 he was guest lecturer Historical Theology at the Bijbelinstituut België, Leuven. From 2009 he is part time PR and Communications Consultant and Archivist at Evadoc, Protestant-Evangelical Archives and Documentation Centre in Leuven. From 2009-2015 he was Assistant in Historical Theoloy at ETF, where he earned a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies in 2015. As of September 2015 he is Postdoctoral Researcher Historical Theology at ETF, focussing on Resistance and Collaboration by Belgian Evangelicals during World War 2 in comparison with Evangelicals in France, Austria and Italy.

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"

At present Angela Boone conducts independent research concerning the postwar ‘small Shoah’ in the Netherlands, next to her job as supervisor of a nonprofit organization. 

She has a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and a master’s degree in humanitarian action. She studied cultural anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam (and took additional courses at the University of Amsterdam & Wageningen Agricultural University) and humanitarian action at the University of Groningen.

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”

Raul holds a PhD in History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, with a thesis that examined the role of anti-Semitism in the ideology of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement. Combining investigation of previously unexplored archival data with a methodology indebted mostly to psychoanalytic theory and its social psychology applications to the study of groups, the thesis explored the construction of the representation of the ‘Jew’ in the legionary movement’s ideology.

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"

My PhD research focuses on Rosey E. Pool (1905-1971) – a writer, translator, and cultural anthropologist of Jewish descent born in Amsterdam. Already in the 1920s, Pool was involved in the Négritude movement, and corresponded with a number of Harlem Renaissance poets. During WWII, she became active in a Dutch resistance group. After 1945, Pool became involved in the American and British Black Arts Movements. 

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

Her project project provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the Jewish Councils of France (UGIF), Belgium (AJB) and the Netherlands (JR). This allows for a better understanding of the organisational structures and the complex nature of society from which they emerged in order to re-examine their key role in the fate of the Jewish communities they represented.  
 

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"

Marta Zawodna is a historian and sociologist working as project coordinator at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Her works are devoted to the Holocaust  and its postwar consequences, especially the afterlife of camps and the ways of handling the remains of concentration camp victims.

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"

Dr. Raquel Stepak is a researcher in the field of Modern Hebrew literature and Holocaust literature. She began working at the Kipp Center in 2005 and she is currently the coordinator of authors' archives in the center. She completed her doctoral studies at Tel-Aviv University in 2011. The title of her dissertation was "The Community of Hebrew Writers in Eretz Israel and Its Response to the Holocaust (1939-1945)". A book based on her dissertation is forthcoming by Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishers.

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"

Mark Zaurov was born deaf in Moscow, the former Soviet Union. Together with his parents and his deaf sister, he immigrated to Israel and later moved to Germany. Growing up in Russia, Israel, and Germany, he acquired several languages, cultures and mentalities and developed his language and mediation skills. After he majored in Sign languages, the minors being Education and History, he coordinated the 6th Deaf History International (DHI) Conference at the Humboldt University and edited its proceedings (Overcoming the Past, Determining its Consequences and Finding Solutions for the Present, Seedorf: Signum Press 2009).

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

Ron Coleman has been a reference and systems librarian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC since 2003. 

Ron assists scholars, students, family researchers, and other visitors wishing to use Museum collections to learn more about the Holocaust and related subjects. He has an undergraduate degree in History, Literature, and Philosophy from West Virginia Wesleyan College, and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

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

Yuri (Iurii) Radchenko is a Ph.D. Candidate for History. He studied for his MA at the Department of History of the Ukraine at the Kharkiv National University V.N. Karazin. His field of research includes history of the Holocaust, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, collaboration with Nazis in Eastern Europe, and the history of right radical movements in Europe, 1920-1940s. Yuri is a director of the NGO Center for Research of Inter-Ethnic relations in Eastern Europe and senior lector at the Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations “Kharkiv Collegium”; among other institutions, he has worked for Yahad in Unum. Yuri is an author of several articles on the history of the Holocaust.

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

Irina Talevska is teaching assistant of Italian Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje, Macedonia. Her Ph.D. thesis frames the concepts of Memory, Subject and Narration in the orbit of the Sovereign Power. It brings to light two divergent hypothesis: the first one is related to memory – uttered by the narrative Subject ̶ as crucial mean of subversion necessary to withstand the concrete manifestations and transformations of the Sovereign Power which we can witness in contemporary societies. The second hypothesis regards the defeat of memory: if we accept Agamben's thesis of the modernity as a paradigm of the concentration camp, than, questioning the reasons of such development of societies, we must observe the possibility that they failed to integrate the knowledge transferred by the holocaust authors.

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. 

Ms. Herr has held teaching positions at Keene State College and Northeastern University. She is the author of The Holocaust and Compensated Compliance in Italy: Fossoli di Carpi, 1942 – 1952 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and the editor of Rwanda: The Essential Reference Guide (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming, 2018). 

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"

Andrea Kirchner is a PhD Candidate at the Martin-Buber-Chair for Jewish Philosophy at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main/ Germany and a Research Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University Jerusalem/ Israel. 

Gergely Kunt Ph.D., University of Miskolc, Hungary

Gergely Kunt Ph.D. is a social historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. Kunt teaches the social history of Hungary and East Central Europe. His dissertation was a comparative analysis of the social imaginaries and prejudices of Jewish and Christian adolescents during World War II in Hungary as reflected in their diaries. Kunt earned his PhD in history at the University of Budapest (ELTE) in 2013. He has been collecting privately-owned diaries and has acquired numerous unpublished diary manuscripts from the period of the Holocaust and the Communist era. In his new project he explores the worldviews of the generation of Austrian and Hungarian adolescents born in the interwar period through a comparative analysis of the mentalities of adolescent diarists.

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"
Astrid Ley is a historian and a historian of medicine. She is working as head scientist and exhibition curator at the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial. Her principal research interest is medicine under National Socialism and, in particular, medical care in concentration camps. Recently she has focused on the issue of "inmate doctors".
 

Cristina Spinei is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in German Studies at the University of Iasi (Romania). She studied German, English and European Studies in Iaşi, Vienna, Constance and Regensburg. She published her doctoral thesis in 2011 on Gregor von Rezzori and amongst other things she authored the first monograph on this multilateral writer.

Her fields of study  are social and cultural history of Central Europe and of Bukovina; German literature of the 20th century; interrelatedness of literature, history and politics; representations of the Holocaust in German literature.

­­­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.”

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

Hannah's PhD thesis examines changes to the memorial site of Sobibor Death Camp from 1989 to the present. It explores the reasons for these changes, focusing on topography and commemoration. It will investigate the effect of political developments at national, regional and local levels, as well as of organisational factors. The primary aim of her research is to examine the historical development of the site of Sobibor as a memorial in the context of changing political climates in Poland, in response to the archaeological excavations there which have brought this to her attention.

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. Thereafter she was employed to fill the prestigious John Saunders Curatorial Chair, and in that capacity has been responsible for multiple temporary exhibitions, upgrades in the permanent displays, and management of the Collection.

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.

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.

Sarit has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Bar Ilan University.  During the course of her work at Yad Vashem's Internet Department, Sarit has led the research and curation of "43 rue Vieille du Temple" online exhibition, as well as other stories and multimedia projects. 

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. Caroline’s current research project examines the forced displacement of Jews from their private homes that occurred as a result of the urban planning projects and exclusionary housing policies introduced by the Nazi regime in Berlin in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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)”.

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

After completing my Staatsexamen in History and Theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and my MSc in Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Leicester, I am now a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (Department of 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.

Nick Underwood received his PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in modern European and Jewish history. His research focuses on Yiddish culture in 20th century France, and his work has appeared in French Politics, Culture & Society, East European Jewish Affairs, and Urban History. Forthcoming articles will appear in Jewish Social Studies and Archives Juives, and he is finishing a book project titled “Yiddish Paris: Nation and Community in Interwar France.”

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).

Inés Valle Morán holds a Masters in Contemporary History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and, in December 2015, she obtained her Phd in Contemporary History at the UCM, the subject of her doctoral thesis being: “Narrative, Writing and Memory: on Primo Levi and the concentrationary experience”.