Tehila Darmon-Malka is the Head of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Herzog College in Jerusalem. She received her PhD in 2018. Her doctoral thesis, “Between Survivors and Victims – Missing Persons After the Holocaust,” was written at Ben-Gurion University. The research included multidisciplinary aspects in an attempt to point to the issue of missing persons as a significant aspect that greatly influenced the case of personal, social, and national rehabilitation after World War II.

Her articles on this subject have been published in several leading journals, including: “Missing Persons and World War II: Between Personal and national loss.” War in History. Volume 29 Issue 3, July 2022: 641–663; “’Our Unfortunate Sisters, the Daughters of Israel’: Holocaust-Survivor Rabbis Confront the Problem of Post-Holocaust’ Agunot.” Yad Vashem Studies vol. 47-1, 2019: 134-173. Her book on the subject will be published in the coming year. Tehila completed her postdoctoral research as a Spiegel Fellow at the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar Ilan University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research of Yad Vashem.

Her current research deals with aspects of fatherhood during the Holocaust. It mainly focuses on the reflection of the experience of fatherhood in the diaries of fathers from the Warsaw ghetto.

As a Conny Kristel fellow at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, she will research father-son relationships in concentration and labor camps, as expressed in early testimonies after the Holocaust.