Berfin Çiçek is a graduate student from Koç University in the departments of English Language and Comparative Literature and Sociology. She will begin studying at Sabancı University at the department of Cultural Studies as a graduate student in September. She was an exchange student in the United States of America and Hong Kong. She has … Continue reading How Does Holocaust Studies Contribute to Comparative Memory Research on the Case of the Dersim Massacre?

By Charlie Knight After completing his BA in 2019, Charlie began an MA at the University of Exeter writing his thesis on Jewish refugees in Britain and their concern for the family left behind, supervised by Dr Nicholas Terry. His work looks at the various channels of correspondence between refugees and occupied Europe focusing on the work … Continue reading Dr Ernst Neustadt: Researching a Stolperstein

Hannah Wilson, MA is a graduate of the Weiss-Livnat International MA program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa (Israel). In 2016, began her PhD research on the material memory of Sobibór at the Department of History, Nottingham Trent University (UK), funded by the AHRC Midlands4Cities Award. She is Blog Editor and Co-Social Media … Continue reading Sketching the Horrors of Auschwitz: The Artwork of Ella Liebermann-Shiber by Hannah Wilson

On March 6th 2020, the British Association of Holocaust Studies’ fourth Postgraduate Conference was held at the University of Exeter. Panellists at different stages of postgraduate study travelled from across the UK and Europe to present on a wide range of topics, broadly centred around the theme of “The Holocaust, Memory and Society”. The day started with … Continue reading BAHS PG Conference Summary – 6th March 2020

Daniel Adamson is a PhD student in the History Department of Durham University, researching educational portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. Twitter: @DanielEAdamson In February 2020, in tandem with a host of other programmes to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, the BBC aired a documentary entitled Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel. Its presenter, the … Continue reading Hidden in Plain View: The Changing Face of Holocaust Denial

By Dr Simon Lavis Dr Simon Lavis is Lecturer in Law at The Open University, and has published articles and book chapters on the historical and legal nature and representation of Nazi law. Academic discussion of law in relation to Nazi Germany is dominated by the Nuremberg trials, and particularly the International Military Tribunal (IMT). … Continue reading Representing Nazi Law: Historians, Lawyers and Interdisciplinary Discourse

By Adina Dymczyk and Thorsten Fehlberg Thorsten Fehlberg is a political scientist and social geographer. He works for the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. He worked for the non-governmental organisation Bundesverband Information & Beratung für NS-Verfolgte e.V. (https://www.nsberatung.de/index.php/de/) as project manager mainly for projects concerning the topic “Descendants of Nazi victims” from 2013 until 2019.  Adina … Continue reading When Past is Present – Descendants of Survivors of Nazi Persecution

By Dr Steven Woodbridge Dr. Steven Woodbridge is Senior Lecturer in History at Kingston University, Surrey, and has published articles and book chapters on both the interwar and contemporary extreme right. In April, 2017, the American Historian of Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Deborah Lipstadt, in a powerful address delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, recalled … Continue reading One of the first deniers? Conspiracy and early Holocaust denial in the post-war writings of Arnold Leese

by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Editor), Paula Cowan (Editor), James Griffiths (Editor) Book Review by Daniel Adamson, PhD Researcher at Durham University. How young is too young? That is perhaps the most immediate question in mind as one embarks upon this new compendium of some fifteen essays that explore the under-researched area of Holocaust education for … Continue reading Book Review: Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward (2018)