Daniel Adamson Daniel Adamson is a PhD student at Durham University. His research explores portrayals of the relationship between Britain and the Holocaust. [Opinions are author's own] Introduction Throughout the summer of 1944, in response to several aerial reconnaissance reports and proposals submitted by both the Jewish Agency and War Refugee Board, Churchill’s war cabinet … Continue reading Churchill and the Auschwitz Bombing Debate: personal or political failure?

Ellis Lynn Spicer Ellis Lynn Spicer is an AHRC/CHASE-DTP funded PhD candidate at the University of Kent. Her thesis, under the supervision of Dr Juliette Pattinson examines Holocaust survivor associations, the Jewish community and their effect on identity and memory using an oral history methodology. She is also in the process of researching and curating … Continue reading Illustrating Composure – The Memory Quilts of the ’45 Aid Society.

David Tollerton David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. He currently holds a 12-month fellowship with the Leverhulme Trust and his next monograph, Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, and Diversity,will be published with Routledge in 2020. On 27 January 2014 David Cameron gave … Continue reading David Cameron’s ‘For The Record’ and Public Holocaust Memory

Barnabas Balint Barnabas Balint is a Master of Studies student in Modern European History at Magdalen College, Oxford, researching young Jewish resistance in Belgium and France. He completed his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Exeter in 2019. His research interests focus on the Holocaust and Jewish responses to persecution in Hungary, France … Continue reading Relief Workers in the Aftermath of the Second World War: Two British Heroes of the Holocaust

Daniel Adamson Given his family connections to Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, Daniel Adamson (PhD student at Durham University) was inspired to explore further the remarkable story of local figure Jane Haining. A Christian missionary who worked in Budapest, Haining risked her life to assist Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, before herself perishing at Auschwitz-Birkenau … Continue reading Jane Haining: the Scottish protector of Jews who perished at Auschwitz

Dr. Denisa Nešťáková Dr. Denisa Nešťáková is a historian. Since May 2019 she has worked as a research associate at the Herder Institute for the project “‘Family Planning’ in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the Authorization of ‘the Pill’”, focusing on Czechoslovakia. She studied History and Slovak language and literature at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), … Continue reading The Evidence of Humanity? Swedish Efforts to Save Slovak Jews During the Holocaust

HANNAH WILSON Hannah Wilson originates from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. She was awarded full funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to begin her PhD research at the Department of History, Nottingham Trent University, in October 2016. Prior to this, she studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds, and undertook a Master’s … Continue reading A Childhood Interrupted in Libau: Interview with Holocaust Survivor George Schwab

CHRISTIN ZÜHLKE Christin Zühlke is a PhD Student at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany. She holds an B.A. in Philosophy and German Literature and Linguistics and a M.A. in Jewish Studies and Philosophy. Her PhD project focuses on the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She became an ELES … Continue reading Where the Trees were the Silent Witnesses…

MICHAEL HOLDEN Michael Holden completed a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and an MA in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he wrote his Master’s thesis on the depiction of Médecins Sans Frontières in the graphic novel form, alongside essays on Holocaust representation. He is currently undertaking his PhD research as … Continue reading ‘Milkman’ and the Yardstick Holocaust

ROSEANNA RAMSDEN Roseanna Ramsden is a second year doctoral candidate in the department of Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. In 2017 she was awarded a studentship to conduct further research into women’s experiences and representations of the Holocaust, following the work she carried out during her MA at the University of Leeds. … Continue reading ‘Nobody was to be Trusted’: Women’s Holocaust Memoirs Re-Examined