by Charlie Knight Charlie Knight is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities for his research into German-Jewish refugees from Nazism in Britain. He was the joint postgraduate representative for the British and … Continue reading Review: ‘I was a German’ by Clare Fraenkel

by Mark Wilson Mark Wilson is a PhD History candidate at Durham University. His research explores experiences and meanings of place and emotion in oral histories of the Holocaust in France. ('Seeing Auschwitz' is a co-production of Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and runs until the end of January 2023 in South Kensington, London)It … Continue reading ‘Seeing Auschwitz’: a sensitive exploration of visual sources that raises questions on how we see and use images of the Holocaust

by Daniel Adamson Daniel Adamson recently submitted a PhD on British Holocaust education at Durham University. He now works as a teacher of History and Politics. ‘What would I have done?’. This is a question many of us will have asked ourselves in relation to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Few of us … Continue reading ‘Good’: a harrowing insight into the ‘banality of evil’

by Joan Salter MBE This blog offers a brief introduction to this deportation of Jews from the Southwest areas of Germany to the camp of Gurs in the then unoccupied zone of France. Interweaving the historic facts with the eyewitness accounts, it follows them onto the deportation trains and their arrival at the camp of … Continue reading GERMAN JEWS DEPORTED WESTWARD INTO THE CAMPS INSIDE UNOCCUPIED FRANCE IN 1940

Barbara Winton (1953 - 2022) By Barnabas Balint I first met Barbara Winton in March 2018 at a Youth Workshop with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in Birmingham. She spoke to us about her father, Sir Nicholas Winton – Nicky, as she called him – who saved 669 children from the Holocaust. Since that day, … Continue reading A Tribute to Barbara Winton

By Charlie Knight and Barnabas Balint When we first applied to be the postgraduate representatives for the British Association for Holocaust Studies, we spoke about how important a supportive, vibrant, and collaborative academic community is for postgraduate students. Our application was driven by a desire to grow that community and to contribute to something that … Continue reading A Year in Review – the BAHS Postgraduate Community 2021/22

On Monday 30th May 2022, we welcomed 40 postgraduate researchers, educators, and academics to the Taube Family Learning Centre at the Imperial War Museum London for the BAHS Postgraduate conference 2022. Each year, the conference brings together a range of academics from across the UK and abroad with a wide range of expertise and interests. … Continue reading BAHS Postgraduate Conference 2022 

by Jan Burzlaff Jan Burzlaff is the William A. Ackman Fellow for Holocaust Studies at Harvard University and the 2021-2022 Dori Laub Fellow at the Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale University. Jan is completing his dissertation, the first transnational history of Jewish survival in eight cities under Nazi rule. Further areas of interest are interdisciplinary approaches … Continue reading Beyond Anne Frank: Towards Jewish Histories of the Holocaust in the Netherlands (1940-1945)

Harry Legg is a recent MRes graduate of Royal Holloway and its Holocaust Research Institute. His interests centre around shedding light on the understudied plight of the non-Jewish individuals falsely labelled as ‘full Jews’ by the Nazis. He has a forthcoming paper coming out this summer with the Journal of Holocaust Research on this topic. … Continue reading Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: Their Isolated Everyday Lives