DANIEL ADAMSON Daniel Adamson is currently a postgraduate student on the MA History Education course at UCL’s Institute of Education, having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2017. In September, he will commence study for a PhD in History at Durham University. His research project will consider portrayals of the relationship between Britain and … Continue reading Winston Churchill and the Holocaust
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Unsilenced by the Written Word
KAREN TREBY-HOWARD Karen Treby-Howard is a PhD student supervised by Thomas Weber at the University of Aberdeen. Her interests are in gender historiography, feminism and, more specifically, the hidden individual experiences of women in the Second World War. Her thesis involves comparative research on how Nazi reproductive policies impacted both Jewish women and women of Lebensborn. … Continue reading Unsilenced by the Written Word
My Experience as a Volunteer at Sachenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial
MARTINA MASI Martina is a student in Berlin, currently reading History and Jewish Studies. She was born in Rome where she studied at the Artistic High School. Her goal is to work in the field of Holocaust memorials, in historical research and, above all, to spread her knowledge, born from an interest that has increased … Continue reading My Experience as a Volunteer at Sachenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial
‘Children under the Nazis’ – Exhibition, Education, Website
BEATE MÜLLER Dr Beate Müller is Reader in Modern German Studies and Director of Impact and Engagement in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on representations of the Holocaust and the war. What was it like to be a child during Nazi rule, and what have children said about their … Continue reading ‘Children under the Nazis’ – Exhibition, Education, Website
The Holocaust: Comprehension, Uniqueness and Comparability
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
Nazi Symbols Banned in the Advertising of ‘Operation Finale’: A Discussion
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
Passing on Holocaust Memory – A Role for Informal Approaches?
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?
Seventy Years On: The Lost Community of Polish Jews are Remembered
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
The British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies 