Mirjam Neuhoff is doctoral candidate in Modern History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies (Institute for Contemporary History) in Munich. She holds a BA and MA in History and studied in Munich and Venice.

Her dissertation project focuses on the perspective of the Jewish population in Italy under Fascist dictatorship and German occupation. She examines mainly personal documents of persecuted Jews, as private letters, diaries and petitions to state institutions, in order to show their daily strategies and responses to the racial policy in Italy between 1938 and 1945.