Devra Katz (Israel), graduate student, University of Haifa, “Emotions in Stutthof: An Analysis of the Social Function of Emotions in a Prisoner Society”. Devra Katz is currently completing her MA at the University of Haifa in the field of Holocaust Studies. A visit to Auschwitz and what remains of her grandfather’s shtetl in Ukraine at […]
The EHRI Fellows of 2014
These were the 19 EHRI Fellows for 2014:
Aleksandra Loewenau (United Kingdom), postdoctoral research assistant, Oxford Brookes University, “Rebuilding Lives of Jewish Survivors of Medical Experiments at Auschwitz: A Comparative Study”. Aleksandra graduated with PhD in History of Medicine from Oxford Brookes University in 2012. The title of her thesis was “The Impact of Nazi Medical Experiments on Polish Inmates at Dachau, Auschwitz […]
Matt Lawson (United Kingdom), PhD candidate, Edge Hill University, “Film Music of German Holocaust cinema”. Matt Lawson is a funded PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant from the north of England. Currently based at Edge Hill University, Matt’s ongoing PhD research focuses on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust on screen. His […]
Katarzyna Person (Poland), assistant professor, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, “Polish-Jewish Relations in Germany in the Immediate Postwar Period”. Katarzyna Person is a historian of Eastern European Jewish History working in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. After her PhD, awarded by the University of London in 2010, she held postdoctoral fellowships from the International Institute […]
Istvan Pal Adam (Austria), junior fellow, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, “A Comparison of the Czech and Hungarian Building Managers and their relations with the persecuted Jews during the Holocaust”. Istvan Pal Adam is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, where his work is supervised by Josie McLellan and Tim Cole. His dissertation […]
César Abraham Castañeda Valencia (Poland/Spain), Erasmun Mundus Master student, Adam Mickiewicz University and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, “Analysis of Cultural Narratives related to Holocaust and Genocide” The research project “Analysis of Cultural Narratives related to Holocaust and Genocide” aims to analyze and compare literature and artistic expression of the Holocaust which might bring light […]
Peter Hallama (France/Germany), doctoral student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, “Die Familiengeschichte der Rosa Böhm, von Tábor nach Wien, London und New York. Zwischen Geschichte und Erinnerung, Anti- und Philosemitismus”. Peter Hallama has just finished his PhD at the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. He studied History and Political Science at the Universities of Vienna, Austria, and Prague, […]
Lisa Peschel (United Kingdom), lecturer, University of York, “Humor and National Identity in Cabarets from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto” Dr. Lisa Peschel is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of York. She has been researching theatrical performance in the Terezín/Theresienstadt ghetto since 1998. Her articles on survivor testimony and […]
Alexander Prenninger (Austria), doctoral student, Universität Wien, “Evakuierungstransporte und Todesmärsche in das Konzentrationslager Mauthausen durch das Gebiet der Tschechischen Republik”. Alexander Prenninger (Austria) is a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science (Vienna-Salzburg). He also lectures at the University of Salzburg. From 2007 to 2011 he was centrally involved in the “Mauthausen […]
Edy Cohen (Israel), research fellow, Bar-Ilan University, “Nazis and Axis Propaganda in Mandatory Palestine and the Arab World, 1933-1945”. Edy Cohen earned his PhD in Middle Eastern History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He has been a Research Fellow at the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication since January, 2014, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow […]
Luca Fenoglio (United Kingdom), PhD student, University of Edinburgh, “The ‘everyday life’ of persecution: Italian diplomats and police officers, and the anti-Jewish policy in Italian-occupied France”. Luca Fenoglio is a PhD student in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral dissertation is provisionally entitled ‘Resisting the ‘final solution’? […]
Anna Marczisovszky (Hungary), PhD candidate, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, “’Try to look. Just try and see.’ – In Search of a Haunting Memoir”.
Aleksandra Szczepan (Poland), PhD student, Jagiellonian University Kraków, ”Post-Holocaust, Post-dependence, Post-memory: Negotiating Jewish Identity in the Post-Communist Central Europe”. Aleksandra Szczepan is finishing her dissertation on traumatic realism in postwar Polish literature at the Department of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Finally, her research will result in a book on relations between […]
Christine Kausch (Germany), doctoral student, University of Münster, “Zuflucht auf Zeit – Jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Deutschland in den Niederlanden 1933-1945”. Christine Kausch is a PhD Candidate at the University of Münster and is working on a project about German-Jewish refugees in the Netherlands 1933-1945. It focuses especially on aspects of the refugees’ daily life and […]
Tatsiana Vaitulevich (Germany), PhD candidate, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, “The Public Memory of the Holocaust in Post-War Netherlands and in Belarus”. Tatsiana Vaitulevich MA studied History in Belarus, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and is now a PhD candidate in History at the Georg-August-University Goettingen. The topic of her doctoral thesis is a critical comparison of the […]
Annalena Schmidt (Germany), researcher, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, “(Selbst-)Hilfe in Zeiten der Hilflosigkeit? Die ‘Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe’ und die ‘Jüdische Unterstützungsstelle’ im Generalgouvernement 1939-1945”. Annalena Schmidt (Germany) is an academic employee at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg for a project concerning the […]
Borbála Klacsmann (Hungary), research assistant, Central European University Budapest, “Reclaiming Jewish Property and Restitutions in Hungary after the Second World War”. Borbála Klacsmann (Hungary) graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with an MA degree in History and BA degree in Ethnography. Afterwards she studied at the Central European University, where she pursued an MA diploma in […]
Agnieszka-Anna Yass-Alston (Poland), PhD candidate, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, “Jewish Art Collectors in Prewar Krakow; Plunder and Destruction of Jewish Cultural Assets during WWII”. Yagna Yass-Alston is a PhD Candidate in the Jewish Studies Institute of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She holds a Master’s Degree in Jewish Studies, JU, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art […]
Justyna Majewska (Poland), PhD candidate, Polish Academy of the Sciences, Warsaw, “Jewish social transformation in the Warsaw ghetto as revealed in personal narratives: A case study”. Justyna Majewska is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Her […]