PETER MORGAN  Peter Morgan was a secondary school History teacher for 21 years and has worked in Holocaust education with the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL and the Holocaust Educational Trust. As part of his PhD, he is currently researching British discourses about the Armenian genocide 1915-23. He is based in the School of … Continue reading The Holocaust: Comprehension, Uniqueness and Comparability

ISSY SAWKINS  Issy Sawkins is a first-Year PhD student based at the University of Exeter, investigating the instrumentalisation of Holocaust memory in the Russian Federation. Through examination of cultural artefacts, both domestic and international, she examines how the Russian state pushes a particularly nationalist rhetoric in order to secure domestic legitimacy and international prestige. The … Continue reading Nazi Symbols Banned in the Advertising of ‘Operation Finale’: A Discussion

KEES RIBBENS Kees Ribbens PhD works as a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, and as Endowed Professor of Popular Historical Culture and War at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Public history, in the broadest sense of the term, is among his key interests. He is particularly interested … Continue reading Passing on Holocaust Memory – A Role for Informal Approaches?

JOAN SALTER Joan Salter was born in Belgium. Her parents were Polish Jews and she is a child survivor of the Holocaust. Following a career as a Youth and Community Officer in the Inner London Education Authority, she started a second career as a writer and researcher. In 2018, she was awarded an MBE for … Continue reading Seventy Years On: The Lost Community of Polish Jews are Remembered