“My time at the Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde as a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure #fellow has been illuminating. I have been able to see original documents that I have only read about and found fascinating information about programs that have yet to be studied. This has been a wonderful opportunity to further my own research and knowledge,” says Jennifer Putnam, an EHRI Conny Kristel Fellow, about her stay at the Bundesarchiv.

Jennifer Putnam is now a Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum. Jennifer received her PhD in History from the University of London, where she studied prisoner graffiti in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. Her current research focuses on Briefaktion, a forced letter-writing campaign that camouflaged the true purpose of the concentration and death camps.

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