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Professor Mark Roseman, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies,

Department of History, Indiana University,

742 Ballantine Hall, 1020 East Kirkwood, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7103

Tel. +1 812 8558325 (W) +1 812 3392632 (H) +1 812 8553378 (Departmental Fax)

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Appointments held

2004 - Pat M Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies Indiana University

2000 – 2003 Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton

1994 – 2000 Senior Lecturer in Modern History, History Dept., Keele University

1989 – 1994 Lecturer in Modern History, History Dept., Keele University

1984 – 1989 Lecturer in German History, Dept. of Modern Languages, Aston University

1980 – 1981 Seminar teaching in Modern German history at University of Warwick

Research

Prizes and research grants

Honors 2009 Offered the USHMM Ina Levine Invitational Scholar Fellowship for 2010-2011

2007 Awarded US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship

for a Semester’s research ($16,000)

2006 Appointed by US Holocaust Museum to lead the 2006 Silberman Seminar For University

Faculty

2004 Awarded three months research funding by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in

recognition of previous scholarship (taken Spring 2006) €10,000

2003 Winner of the 2003 Geschwister Scholl Prize for ‘In einem unbewachten Augenblick

(€10,000 = ca $11,000)

2002 Winner of the 2002 Lucas Prize Project Mark Lynton prize $10,000 for A Past in Hiding

2001 Winner of the Jewish Quarterly’s Wingate Literary Prize for The Past in Hiding

2000 Winner of the Fraenkel prize, awarded by the Wiener Library, London, for the

manuscript of The Past in Hiding

1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship awarded (value ca. £10,000 ($16000)) for 6 months

research in Germany April-September 1999.

1979 Awarded a Christ’s College Scholarship and AH Lloyd scholarship.

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Grants 2008 (with Devin Pendas, Boston College) $15,500 from German Historical Institute

Washington towards 2009 Conference ‚Beyond the Racial State‛

2001 (With Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer) Thyssen Stiftung grant of 10,000 Euros (ca $10,000)

for conference German History from the Margins: Minorities in modern German History

2001 (With Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer) Grants from British Academy and Royal Historical

Society for conference German History from the Margins: Minorities in modern German

History Value £2000 (ca $3200)

2000 Arts and Humanities Research Board, Matched teaching leave ‘History of the Bund’

£16,228 (ca $30,000)

1998 Nuffield Research Grant of £3,500 (ca $5000) towards research costs for Past in Hiding

and specifically for interviewing in USA and Argentina and attendance of Xth

International Oral History Conference in Rio.

1997 History 2000 award of £7449 (with Hannah Barker) for research into improving student

communication skills. (ca $12000)

1995 French Embassy grant £450 for Stabilising Europe conference

1995 British Academy Grant £500 for Stabilising Europe conference

1995 Royal historical Society £200 for Stabilising Europe conference.

1994 Keele Research Award - £1,000 and one semester’s replacement teaching costs for

academic year 1995-6

1993 Goethe Institute, Manchester £1,200 for my conference Stabilising Europe: The three post-

war eras in comparison 1918,1945,1989, held Keele 1995

1991 Goethe Institute, Manchester grants of £885 for my conference The Generation Game, Keele

1991

1991 DAAD Research grant of £1,800 for research in Germany May-July 1991

1991 British Academy grant £450 for my conference The Generation Game, Keele 1991

1989 British Academy award of £200 travel expenses for attendence at the International

Mining History Congress in Bochum, September 1989.

1983 - 1984 German Historical Institute grant for 6 and later 2 more months research in Germany

1982 - 1983 Leverhulme Trust Studentship for 12 months research in Germany

1981 - 1982 German Academic Exchange Service Award for 12 months research in Germany

1980 German Academic Exchange Service Award for 2 month German language course in

Freiburg


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Publications

Single author books The villa, the lake, the meeting. The Wannsee Conference and the ‘final solution’ (Harmondsworth: Penguin,

January 2002),152pp.

The past in hiding (Harmondsworth: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press 2000), 576 pp.

Recasting the Ruhr 1945-1957. Manpower, economic recovery and labour relations, (Oxford: Berg Publishers

1992), 358 pp.

International editions of The villa, the lake the meeting:

Die Wannseekonferenz - Wie die NS-Bürokratie den Holocaust organisierte (Berlin: Propyläen, 2002)

The Wannsee Conference and the final solution: A reconsideration (New York: Metropolitan, 2002)

De villa het meer de conferentie (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans, 2002);

La villa el lago La reunion (Barcelona: RBA Libros, 2002)

La villa, el llac, La reunio (Barcelona: Edicions de la Magrana, 2002)

Ordre du jour genocide. Le 20 janvier 1942. La conference de Wannsee et la solution finale, (Paris:

Editions Louis Audibert, 2002)

Il Protocollo del Wannsee e la « solzuione finale » (Milan: Corbaccio, 2002)

Os Nazistas e a Solução Final. A Conspiração de Wannsee: do assassinato em massa ao genoicído

(Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2003)

Setk{ní ve vile u jezera. Konference ve Wannsee a konečné řešení židovské ot{zky (Prague: Dokořán,

2003)

A végső megoldás. A Wansee-jegyzőkönyv (Budapest: Magyar Könyvklub, 2003)

Ordem de Trabalhos: Genocído (Lisbon: Campo das Letras, 2005)

"Wannsee Konferencen", (Copenhagen: Peter Broer Verlag, 2008)

International editions of The Past in Hiding:

In einem unbewachten Augenblick (Berlin : Aufbau Verlag, 2002)

Il passato nascosto (Milan: Corbaccio, 2001)

A past in hiding. Memory and survival in Nazi Germany (New York: Metropolitan Press , 2001)


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Edited books Conflict, catastrophe and continuity: Essays on modern German History (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Press,

2007) (with Frank Biess and Hanna Schissler)

German history from the margins (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006) , (with Neil Gregor and Nils

Roemer)

Three postwar eras in comparison. Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (London, New York: Palgrave 2002), v-306

pp. (with Carl Levy)

Generations in conflict. Youth rebellion and generation formation in modern Germany 1770-1968 (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press 1995), 312pp. (Also subsequent paperback edition and reprint)

Document editions Documenting Life and Destruction. Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946. Volume I. (1933-1938)) Ed with

Jürgen Matthäus, forthcoming (Lanham, Md: Alta Mira, 2009)

Research monographs Neither punitive nor powerless. Western Europe and the division of Germany, Aston Papers in European

Politics and Society Number 2, Institute for the Study of Language and Society, Aston University,

Birmingham 1993.

Refereed journal articles „Gerettete Geschichte. Der „Bund‚. Gemeinschaft für sozialistisches Leben im Dritten Reich‚, Mittelweg

36 Vol 16 (February 2007), pp.100-121

„Gespräche und Lektüren zum Körper‚, BIOS Vol20, Special Issue (‚Kritische Erfahrungsgeschichte und

grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit. The Networks of Oral History‛), (2007), pp.75-81.

‘Ein Mensch in Bewegung. Dore Jacobs, 1894-1978’, Essener Beiträge. Beiträge zur Geschichte von Stadt und

Stift Essen 114 (2002): 73-109

‘Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony’ in Journal of Holocaust Education Vol. 8

(1999) 1: 1-20 reprinted in Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds.), The oral history reader (London, New

York: Routledge, 2006)

‘Erinnerung und Überleben: Wahrheit und Widerspruch in dem Zeugnis einer Holocaust-Überlebenden’

in BIOS Vol. 11(1998), issue 2: 263-279

‘La memoria contra la verdad’, in Historia Antropolgia y Fuentes Orales vol 20 (1998): 33-44.

'The organic society and the Massenmenschen. Integrating young labour in the Ruhr mines 1945 - 1958',

German History, Vol. 8, (1990), 2: 163-194

Book chapters ‘‚It went on for years and years‛. Der Wiedergutmachungsantrag der Marianne Ellenbogen’ in Norbert

Frei, José Brunner and Constantin Goschlar (eds.), Die Praxis der Wiedergutmachung: Geschichte, Erfahrung

und Wirkung in Deutschland und Israel, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2009), pp.51-78


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‘Survivre dans la clandestinité: le « Bund » dans l’Allemagne nazie’ in Jacques Semelin and Sarah

Gensburger (eds.), Practiques de Sauvetage en Situations Génocidaires (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po,, 2008),

pp.475-490

‘Contexts and contradictions: writing the biography of a Holocaust survivor’ in Simone Laessig and

Volker Berghahn (eds.), Biography between Structure and Agency: Central European lives in international

historiography (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Press, 2008), pp.201-214

‚The body’s resistance: Körperbildung and the creation of Anti-Nazi identities‛ in Willem de Blécort

(ed.), Sisters of subversion. Histories of women, Tales of Gender. A Festschrift (Amsterdam: AMB Press, 2008),

pp.181-190.

‘Ideas, Contexts and the Pursuit of Genocide’, in Jeremy Black (ed.). The second world war. Volume V The

Holocaust, (Ashgate 2007), pp.1-25

‘Introduction’, in Frank Biess, Mark Roseman and Hanna Schissler (eds.), Conflict, catastrophe and

continuity: Essays on modern German History (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Press, 2007) , pp.1-26. (with

Frank Biess)

‘Beyond conviction? Perpetrators, ideas and action in the Holocaust in historiographical perspective’ in

Frank Biess, Mark Roseman and Hanna Schissler (eds.), Conflict, catastrophe and continuity: Essays on

modern German History (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Press, 2007) , pp.81-103.

‘Introduction’, in Mark Roseman, Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer (eds.) German history from the margins

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) , pp.1-26 (with Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer)

Generationen als "imagined communities". Mythen, generationelle Identitäten und

Generationenkonflikte in Deutschland vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert’, in Ulrike Jureit, Michael Wildt

(eds.), Generationen. Zur Relevanz eines wissenschaftlichen Grundebgriffes (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition,

2005) , pp.180-199.

‘Shoot first and ask questions afterwards? Wannsee and the unfolding of the ‚Final Solution‛’, in Neil

Gregor (ed.), Nazism, War and Genocide. Essays in Honour of Jeremy Noakes. (Exeter: Exeter University Press,

2005), pp.131-146

'Division and stability: 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany', in Carl Levy and Mark Roseman (eds.) Three

postwar Eras in Comparison, (London: Palgrave 2002), pp. 257-75.

‘Memoria sobrevivente: verdade e inexitadao nos depoimentos sobre o Holocausto’, in Marieta de Moraes

Ferreira, Tania Maria Fernandes, Verena Alberti (eds.), Historia Oral. Desafios para o seculo XXI (Rio de

Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz , 2000), pp.123-134.

‘Rethinking the history curriculum: enhancing students’ communication and group-work skills’, in Alan

Booth and Paul Hyland (eds.), The practice of university history teaching (Manchester: Manchester

University Press 2000), pp.60-69 (with Hanah Barker and Monica McLean)

‘The fugitive, the transport, the BBC and mass murder: A BBC broadcast about gassings in Auschwitz in

June 1944’ in S.Wright, L.Hantrais and J.Howarth (eds.), Language, politics and society. The new languages

department. Festschrift in honour of Professor Dennis Ager (Clevedon, Buffalo, Toronto Sydney; Multilingual

matters 2000), pp.26-39.

‘Restoration and stability: the creation of a stable democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany’ in John

Garrard and Ralph White (eds), European democratisation since 1800(London: Macmillan 2000), pp.141-163.

‘Erinnern und Überleben: Wahrheit und Widerspruch in dem Zeugnis einer Holocaust-Überlebenden’ in

Friedhelm Boll & Annette Kaminsky (eds.), Gedenkenkstättenarbeit und Oral history (Berlin: Berlin Verlag

1999), pp.41-62.


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'The organic society and the Massenmenschen. Integrating young labour in the Ruhr mines 1945 - 1958',

in Robert Moeller (ed.), West Germany under construction : politics, society, and culture in the Adenauer era,

(Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press 1997), pp.287-320.

'Zwischen Kapitulation und Kohlenkrise: Mobilitaet, Stabilitaet und Wandel im Ruhrgebiet', for Karl

Teppe & Hans-Ulrich Thamer (eds.), 50 Jahre Nordrhein-Westfalen Land im Wandel(Münster: Ardy Verlag,

1997), pp.43-58.

'Division and stability: The Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1989' for Mary Fulbrook (ed.), German

history since 1800, (Arnold 1997), pp.365-390. Reprinted in Mary Fulbrook (ed.), Twentieth Century

Germany. Politics, culture and society 1918-1990 (London: Arnold, 2001), pp.177-203

‘Total war and social change’, in Charles Townshend (ed.), The Oxford illustrated history of modern warfare,

(Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997), pp.245-264. (subsequently reprinted)

'National Socialism and modernisation', in Richard Bessel (ed.), Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: comparisons

and contrasts, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.197-229.

‘Generation conflict and German History’, in Mark Roseman (ed.), Generations in conflict, (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press,1995), pp.1-46

‘The generation conflict that never was: young labour in the Ruhr mining industry 1945-1957’, in ibid.,

pp.269-289

'Settling the workforce. Ruhr miners' housing, ideology and social integration 1945-1958', in Klaus

Tenfelde (ed.), Towards a social history of mining in the 19th and 20th Centuries, (Munich: Beck Verlag 1992,

pp.1102-1123).

'Occupation policy and post-war reconstruction: British manpower policy in the Ruhr coal-mines, 1945-

1947', in Robert Lee (ed.), German industry and German industrialisation. Essays in German economic and

business history in the 19th and 20th centuries, (London: Routledge, 1991, pp.286-305)

'Political allegiance and social change: the case of workers in the Ruhr', in John Gaffney & Eva Kolinsky

(eds.), Political culture in France and Germany, (London: Routledge,1991), pp.173-206

'World War 2 and Social Change in Germany', in Clive Emsley, Arthur Marwick and Wendy Simpson

(eds.), War, peace, and social change in twentieth-century Europe, (Milton Keynes: Open University Press,

1989), pp.300-318

'The uncontrolled economy: Ruhr coal production 1945-1948', in Ian Turner (ed), Reconstruction in post-war

Germany: British occupation policy and the western zones 1945-55, (Leamington Spa: Berg, 1989), pp.93-124.

'World War 2 and social change in Germany', in Arthur Marwick (ed.), Total war and social change,

(London: Macmillan, 1988), pp.58-79

'Refugees & Ruhr miners: a case study of the impact of the refugees on post-war German society', in Anna

Bramwell (ed.), Refugees in the age of total war, (London: Unwin Hyman, 1988), pp.184-198

'Arbeiter in Bewegung. Neubergleute im Ruhrrevier 1945 - 1958.', in Lutz Niethammer et al (eds.), Die

Menschen machen ihre Geschichte nicht aus freien Stücken, aber sie machen sie selbst. Einladung zu einer

Geschichte des Volkes in NRW, Berlin, 1984 (Berlin: Dietz, 1988), pp.192 – 196

Review articles ‘Ideas, contexts and the pursuit of genocide’ for Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London Vol. 25,

May 2003, 1, pp.64-87

‘Recent writing on the Holocaust’ for Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 36 (2001), 2, 361-372


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'Reconstruction and modernisation: The Federal republic and the fifties', for Bulletin of the German

Historical Institute, London Vol. 19 (1997), No. 1, pp.5-16.

'Division and stability. Recent writing on post-war German history', in German History, Vol. 11, (1993), 3,

pp.363-390.

Encyclopedia articles Article ‘Wannsee’ for Encyclopedia Judaica (November 2006)

Articles ‘The Holocaust’ and ‘Wannsee’ for John Merriman and Jay Winters (eds.) Scribners, The

Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914- 2000 (Gale Publishers 2006)

Article ‘Wannsee’ in Shelton, Dinah, ed. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 3 vols.

(Detroit, Mi: Macmillan Reference USA; 2005), volume 3 pp. 1140-1141.

Conference reports ‘Gender in German history’, in German History vol 13 (1995), 1: 83-90.

'Hope, fear and propaganda at the Ruhr mines 1945 - 1958', in German History, Vol. 7, (1989), 2: 238-246.

Reviews of article length Review (2000 words) of Constantin Goschlar, Wiedergutmachung, Westdeutschland und die Verfolgten des

Nationalsozialismus (1945-1954) for the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, XVI (1994), 1: 58-64.

Review (3000 words) of Carola Sachse, Siemens, der Nationalsozialismus und die moderne Familie. Eine

Untersuchung zur sozialen Rationalisierung in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert, for the Bulletin of the German

Historical Institute London vol XIV (Feb 1992) No.1: 27-33

Review (4000 words) of Peter Hüttenberger (ed.), Vierzig Jahre. Historische Entwicklungen und Perspektiven

des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and Karl Rohe, Vom Revier zum Ruhrgebiet. Wahlen, Parteien, politische

Kultur, in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, (1989), 2: 22-27.

Review (4000 words) of Franz Josef Brüggemeier, Leben vor Ort and Stephen Hickey, Workers in imperial

Germany, in Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, 23, (Autumn 1986): 21-26

Review (3000 words) of Werner Berg: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Deutschland und Grossbritannien im

Uebergang zum 'Organisierten Kapitalismus'. Unternehmer, Angestellte, Arbeiter und Staat im

Steinkohlenbergbau des Ruhrgebietes und von Suedwales 1850 - 1914, in Bulletin of the German Historical

Institute London, 21, (Spring 1986): 8 - 13

Reviews I have reviewed single publications for American Historical Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Clio,

Economic History Review, English Historical Review, European History Quarterly, German History,

History, History Workshop Journal, Holocaust Studies, and the Journal of Slavonic and East European

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Translations Carola Sachse ‘Rationalizing family life, stabilising German society’ for Carl Levy and Mark Roseman

(eds.), Three postwar eras in comparison, 1918-1945-1989 (London: Palgrave 2002), pp. 173- 195.

Heinz Bude, 'The German Kriegskinder. Origin and impact of the generation of '68', for Roseman

Generations in Conflict, pp.290-305.

Michael Buddrus, 'A generation twice betrayed. Youth policy in the transition from the Third Reich to

the Soviet Zone of Occupation (1945 - 1946)', for Roseman Generations in Conflict, pp.247-268.

Dagmar Reese, 'The BDM Generation. A female generation in transition from dictatorship to democracy',

for Roseman Generations in Conflict, pp.27-246.

Alexander v. Plato 'The Hitler Youth Generation and its role in the two post-war German states’, for

Roseman Generations in Conflict, pp.210-226.

Rainer Elkar 'Young Germans and Young Germany. Some remarks on the history of German youth in

the late 18th and in the first half of the 19th century', for Roseman Generations in Conflict, pp.69-91.

Andreas Musolff, Das Bild der Daimler Benz in der Presse, Aston Papers in European Politics and Society

Number 1, Institute for the Study of Language and Society, Aston University, Birmingham 1992, 19pp.

Theo Horstmann, 'Geschichte der VEW' for Volume 5 of the International directory of company histories.

Falk Wiesemann, 'Jewish burials in Germany - between the englightenment and the authorities' Leo Baeck

Institute Year Book XXXVII (1992): 17-31.

Günther Nenning, 'Der Ajatollah des Westens. Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Wende zum Satanismus' for

Contemporary European Affairs, vol 4 (1991), 1

Helmuth Schmidt "The West and the Soviet Union" for Contemporary European Affairs, vol 2, (1989), Nr.3.


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Conferences, media work and public lectures

Conferences/panels organised 2009 International Conference: Beyond the Racial State, co-sponsored by German Historical Institute

Washington (in preparation with Devin Pendas, Boston College) Bloomington, Indiana October 23-25

2009

2006 Panel: Informal Sociability in Nazi Germany, German Studies Association 2006 Meeting, Pittsburg 28

October -1 November

2006 Panel: National and Colonial Projects in Contested Borderlands -- A Roundtable on Prasenjit Duara's

Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern, at the AHA 120th Annual

Meeting, Philadelphia, January 5-8 2006.

2005 Panel: Bodies Politic: ‚Körperbildung‛, Politics, and Nation in Modern Germany at the AHA 119th Annual

Meeting, Seattle, Jan 5-9 2005.

2003 International Conference: From empire to Federal Republic: elites, violence, and society in German history,

(with Frank Biess and Hanna Schissler) New York Feb 2003. Speakers included Omer Bartov, Michael

Geier, Paul Kennedy, Jürgen Kocka, Mary Nolan and many others.

2002 International Conference: German History from the margins: minorities in modern German history, (with

Neil Gregor and Nils Roemer) conference on behalf of the German History Society and Southampton

University, September 2002. Speakers include Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann, Till van Rahden, Helmut W.

Smith, Yfaat Weiss and many others.

1995 International Conference: Stabilising Europe: three post-war eras in comparison. 1918-1945-1989, (with

Carl Levy) collaborative conference on behalf of German History Society, Association for the Study of

Modern and Contemporary France, Association for the study of Modern Italy, 1995. Speakers include

Charles Maier, Niall Ferguson, Patrick Friedenson, Serge Berstein, Paolo Pombeni and many others

1991 International Conference: The Generation Game. Generation conflict and generation contrasts in modern

Germany, Regional Conference of the German Historical Society, Keele University, April 1991. Speakers

include Professor Jürgen Reulecke (Siegen), Dr Alexander v Plato (Hagen), Dr Dagmar Reese (Berlin), Dr

Elizabeth Harvey (Salford), Dr Joachim Whaley (Cambridge), Dr Richard Bessel (Open University).

1988 International Conference: The Americanisation of Western Europe and Japan. American models and

American influence in the post-war reconstruction of Britain, Germany and Japan, in the International Business

Environment Research Series, Aston University, May 14th 1988. Speakers: Professor Werner

Abelshauser, (Bochum); Professor Volker Berghahn, (Brown University, Rhode Island); Dr.Jim

Tomlinson, (Brunel University); Dr.Gordon Daniels, (Sheffield University).

Media and exhibition work For Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ I discussed the recent CBS docudrama about the young Hitler 3rd October 2003.

With Kate Adie, I discussed parallels and differences in the language of occupation between the post-45

occupation of Germany and the recent occupation of Iraq on ‘Word of Mouth’, BBC Radio 4, recorded 22

September 2003 and broadcast early October.

Media work in connection with the launch of The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting:


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TV appearances: on discussion programme, ZDF satellite station 3sat, 9.1.2002; ‘Sunday

Programme,’ GMTV, London, 27.1.2002.

Radio appearances: BBC Radio 4 ‘Front Row’ (18.1.2002), Radio5 ‘Nick Campbell Show’

(21.1.2002), BBC World Service (21.1.2002).

Print Media: Article for the Guardian ‘Cognac and genocide’, appeared in Saturday edition,

5.1.2002. Article for The Higher (Times Higher Education Supplement) ‘The Protocol of the

Young Men of Berlin’, appeared 18.1.2002. Article for the Scotsman, ‘Meeting about murder’, to

appear in January 2002.

I scripted, conducted interviews and presented a 30 minute programme ‘The long road to Lublin’ for BBC

Radio 4 on German-Jewish deportations, broadcast January 24th 2002.

I participated in the programme ‘Children of the Enemy", broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, 21 June

2001 at 11.00.

Media work in connection with the launch of Past in Hiding:

TV: US public broadcasting book review TV show ‘Riprap’, recorded Ann Arbor, 24.3.2001.

Radio: WAAM radio station, Ann Arbor, Michigan "Ted Heisel Show" (20.3.01); Participant in

BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves Program (2.11.00); and the following regional discussion programs BBC

Radio Scotland, Lunchtime Program (16.10.00); BBC Radio WM, Carl Chinn afternoon program

(18.10.00); BBC Radio Merseyside, lunchtime program (8.11.00); Irish Radio station evening

program; BBC GMR "It's Kosher" (23.11.00); BBC Radio Solent, Nick Graffy Lunchtime

programme (27.11.00).

At the Studio of the Fernuniversitaet Hagen, I translated and recorded English version of film by

Alexander von Plato and Loretta Waltz, ‘Speziallager Buchenwald’ (21-22.11.00).

Adviser and researcher with the TV company Invision on a proposal for the TimeWatch series to look at

post-war Germany. Proposal not adopted by TimeWatch. (April 1996).

I scripted and presented the WDR/NDR/SFB programme Zeitzeichen, looking at the British Unternehmen

Kohlenpott, recruitment for the mines and German economic recovery. (July 31 1990).

I interviewed Marianne Ellenbogen, in Liverpool, for an audio-visual exhibition on war at the Ruhrland

Museum in Essen. (October 1989).

Conference/ Seminar papers ‚Eine Wirklichkeit, deren Licht uns blind macht. NS-Täter aus der Opferperspektive‛, History Seminar

Universität München, May 27, 2009


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‚Eine Wirklichkeit, deren Licht uns blind macht. NS-Täter aus der Opferperspektive‛, History Seminar

Universität Bielefeld, May 26, 2009

‚Finding Sentences to Fit the Perpetrators. Why Victims Find it So Hard to Write about their tormentors‛

to the Symposium: ‚Topographies of Violence‛, organized by the Eisenberg Institute, University of

Michigan, April 16-17.

"You should have seen their faces, they weren't really human." How Holocaust victims made sense of

their tormentors‛ European University Institute, Florence, Seminar March 12, 2009

‚Glimpses in the blinding light‛. Holocaust victims reflect on their tormentors‛, German Study Group at

the Minda de Guzberg Center for European Studies at Harvard, November 11 2008

‚Beliefs and convictions: Nazi perpetrators in West German Courts‛ at the Tenth Biennial Lessons and

Legacies Conference on the Holocaust, Northwestern University, October 30 – November 2, 2008.

‚Victims Reflect on the Perpetrators" at Nazi Germany and the Jews: Years of Persecution, Years of

Extermination International Conference, University of Sussex, June 13-15, 2008.

‚In light that blinds us: Holocaust perpetrators in the eyes of their victims.‛ York University UK, History

Research Seminar, May 15 2008

‚Prisoners’ Dilemmas: making sense of perpetrators through the eyes of their victims‛ University of

Alberta History Seminar, Edmonton, May 8 2008.

‚Glimpses in the Blinding Light. Perpetrators in the eyes of their victims‛, University of Toronto research

seminar, March 6 2008

‚Spilling blood, spilling words. What to do with talk about the perpetrators‛. Fellows Seminar, US

Holocaust Memorial Museum, January 30 2008

‚An inability to mourn? Generation conflict, the 1960s and West German memory of Nazism and war‛

at the conference Generational Memories Of World War Ii: An International Perspective, Indiana

University November 8-10 2007

„Agents of genocide? Nazi perpetrators in the courtroom", in the panel ‚Perpetrators and policies in the

Nazi East‛ at the 31st German Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, October 2007

‚Beyond belief – beyond conviction? The trial of Lt. Rudolf Pallmann of the Feldgendarmerie‛ History

Research Seminar, San Diego, May 8 2007

‚‚He who puts the most modest idea into practice <‛. The ‘League: Community for Socialist Life’, rescue

and memory in Germany‛ at the conference ‚Pratiques de sauvetages en situations génocidaires‛,

Sciences Po, Paris, 11-13 December 2006

‚Self Assertion and Self Restraint: The Bund. Community for Socialist Life in the 1930s and 1940s‛

German Studies Association 2006 Meeting, Pittsburg 28 October -1 November 2006

„Beyond Conviction? NS-Täter, Ideologie und Gewalt aus historiographischer Sicht‚ Kolloquium für

Zeitgeschichte (University of Jena) April 26 2006


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„Die Widerständigkeit des Körpers: Körperbildung, Lebensreform und der “Bund. Gemeinschaft für

sozialistisches Leben’ im Dritten Reich‚ Kolloquium zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte, at the

University of Cologne February 6 2006

‚Comparing Germany and Japan‛ National and Colonial Projects in Contested Borderlands -- A Roundtable on

Prasenjit Duara's Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern, at the AHA 120th

Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 5-8 2006 .

‚Good utopians - bad citizens?‛ 2005 Mid-West German History Workshop, Center for German and

European Studies, University of Minnesota, October 21-23, 2005.

‚Generations of Perpetrators, generations of Nazis. How much can the generational model explain‛ in the

panel ‚Generational Discourses and Experiences in 20th-Century Germany‛ at the 29th German Studies

Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, 30 Sept-2nd October 2005.

Commentator of the panel ‚Crime and Punishment: Leniency, Clemency and Failed Justice in Postwar

Trials of Nazi Perpetrators‛ at the 29th GSA Annual Conference, Milwaukee, 30 Sept-2nd October 2005.

"Bodies Politic: Body training, life reform, and the creation of anti-Nazi identities," Seminar at Townsend

Center Working Group in the History and Social Studies of Medicine and the Body Berkeley, 15

September 2005.

‚Bodies Politic: Body training, life reform and the creation of anti-Nazi identities‛ at the workshop

‚Modernity and empire. Reconceptualizing 20th century German history‛, Toronto, May 20-21 2005.

‘How ‚German‛ were Hitler's executioners? Identity, ideology and historical appraisals of Nazi

perpetrators’ keynote paper at Paul Lucas History Graduate Conference, Indiana University March 26

2005.

‘Movement in protest: Body training, ‚Life reform‛ and resistance in a left-wing political grouping in the

Ruhr’ in the session Bodies Politic: ‚Körperbildung‛, Politics, and Nation in Modern Germany at the

AHA 119th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Jan 5-9 2005.

‘Trauma, displacement and identity. Reflections on holocaust biography’, invited lecture, Life History

Writing Seminar, IU November 12th 2004.

‚Monsters, bureaucrats or ideologues? Changing historical appraisals of Nazi perpetrators‛ at the

international conference ‚From generation to generation‛ 8th biennial Lessons and Legacies conference

on the Holocaust, Brown University, November 4-7 2004.

‚Bureaucrats or ideologues? Nazi perpetrators in historians’ eyes‛ History Department Research

Colloquium, Kent State, 27th October 2004

‘Creating model citizens? The ‚League for Socialist Life‛ from the 1920s to the 1950s’, at the

international conference Citizenship & National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany Lady Margaret

Hall, Oxford (UK), 10-12 September 2004.

‘Antisemitism or obedience? Understanding the perpetrators’ in the lecture series On the gold bridge of

sunset: Jewish culture and the Holocaust Indiana University, July 12 2004.

‘Writing the biography of a Holocaust Survivor’ at the international conference ‘Towards a biographical

turn’, German Historical Institute, Washington DC 25-27th April 2004.

“Generationen als „imagined Communities‚ at the international conference "Generationen", 19.-21 June

2003, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.


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Die „Wannseekonferenz‚, Lüdenscheider Gespräche Seminar series of the Institut für Geschichte und

Biographie, part of the German Fernuniversität, Hagen January 22 2003.

“Generationen als „imagined communities‚ at Wissenschaftliche Tagung des Sonderforschungsbereiches

"Systemumbruch und Generationswechsel", Jacob-Kaiser-Haus in Weimar, 11-12 October 2002.

Paper giver and section chair for the session ‘Disasters as Cultural Events’, at the conference Crossroads

in Cultural Studies, Tampa, Finland 1 July 2002.

Paper (with Bridget Thompson and Andrea Reiter), ‘Representing the survivor’, School of Modern

Languages Research Seminar, Southampton, 15 May 2002.

'Problems of memory: Truth and Inaccuracy in the testimony of a Holocaust survivor’, SHIPS

Postgraduate conference, University of Exeter, 24 April 02

‘Writing the biography of a Holocaust survivor’ Jewish intertexualities seminar, University of London,

13 February 2002.

‘The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee & the Final Solution.’ Wiener library lecture series 2002,

Wiener Library, London 30 January 2002.

‘The Wannsee Conference 60 years on’, Research Seminar, University of Oxford 14 January 02.

'"With Kant, Marx and eurhythmics against Hitler": Introduction to an unknown resistance group'.

Sheffield History Department Research Seminar, 27 November 2001.

“Fragen an das Gedächtnis einer Holocaust-Überlebenden’, Werkstatt "Geschichtsarbeit und historisch-

politisches Lernen zum Nationalsozialismus" Villa Ten Hompel, Münster 24 November 01.

‘The Wannsee Conference 60 years after: what remains to be said?’, Research Seminar of Royal Holloway

College, Wiener Library, 15 November 01.

’Truth and inaccuracy in the testimony of a Holocaust survivor’ Leo Baeck College, London, 8 November

2001.

‘The past in exile’ Paper at the conference 2001 Exils/Exiles, Herstmonceux castle, 31. May – 3. June 2001.

Panelist at round table discussion on the 2001 Europeaum Lecture, Strands of Nazi anti-semitism, given

by Philippe Burrin, Magdalen College Oxford, 16th – 17th May 2001.

‘Truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony’, 21st Annual Conference on the Holocaust, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, 15 March 2001.

‘Memory and Survival: Understanding the memories of a Holocaust Survivor’, Modern Jewish History

Seminar, University of Oxford, 16 January 2001.

‘‚With Kant, Marx and euthythmics against Hitler‛: Introduction to an unknown resistance group’,

Research Seminar, History Department, Southampton, 9 January 2001

‘‚With Kant, Marx and dance against Hitler‛: Introduction to an unknown resistance group’, Research

Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 16 November 2000.

‘'Hidden resistance: the "League for Socialist Life", the Jewish girl and the Nazis', Wiener Library Seminar

Series, 25 October 2000.

‘German Transformations: Reshaping Germany in the three post-war eras’, in Panel 1918-1945-1989: The

making and unmaking of stable societies in western Europe at War and peace: 69th Anglo-American

conference of historians, Institute for Historical Research, University of London, 5th-7th July 2000.

Keynote Speaker, ‘Survival and memory’ at conference Memory and Catastrophe, University of

Southampton, April 2000.


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“Historisches Wissen und Biographische Konstruktion’ at the conference Der Zeitzeuge als natürlicher

Feind der historischen Zunft? Institut für Geschichte und Biographie, Lüdenscheid, January 2000.

“Surviving Memory’, Western European History Seminar, Cambridge University, January 2000.

Commentator of paper by Christoph Dieckmann at the conference National-Socialist extermination

policy: recent German research on the Holocaust, German Historical Institute London, January 2000.

Discussant in Panel “Arbeit und soziale Anerkennung: Ein west-östlicher Geschlechtervergleich’

Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam conference Geschichtsforum 1949-1989-1999, Berlin 29.

May 1999.

“Wahrheit und Irrtum in der Erinnerung eines Holocaust-Überlebenden‘, Seminar zur Zeitgeschichte,

Prof Duweil, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, May 1999

‘Surviving Memory. Truth and Inaccuracy in Holocaust Testimony’ Institute for German Studies,

Birmingham, January 1999

‘Beyond Testimony: In search of the past of a Holocaust survivor’, Seminars in German History, Institute

of Historical Research, London, January 1999.

‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Irrtum und Wahrheit in den Erinnerungen einer Holocaust-Überlebenden’,

Zeitzeugen und Gedenkstätten. Workshop zur biographischen Foschung über Verfolgte des

Nationalosozialismus und über Verfolgte der SBZ/DDR Conference organised by the Verein Gegen das

Vergessen, Bonn-St.Augustin, November 1998.

‘Surviving memory: truth and inaccuracy in Holocaust testimony’, in Panel ‘Traumas in Germany’, Xth

International Oral History Congress, Rio de Janeiro June 1998.

‘Good Germans and bad Germans’, Wiener Library Seminar Series, London May 1998.

The biography of a Holocaust survivor: introduction to an ongoing research project’, Keele History

Department Research Seminar Series February 1997

‘Zwischen Kapitulation und Kohlenkrise: Mobilitaet, Stabilitaet und Wandel im Ruhrgebiet’ Institute for

Regional Studies, University of Münster, May 1996.

‘How imaginary are generations?’, Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Modern German History

December 1994.

'The social impact of fascism in western Germany', Tim Mason Memorial Conference. (Collaborative

conference of the German History Society, History Workshop and the Association for the Study of

Modern Italy, Oxford March 1993.

'Britain, France and the division of Germany', Research Seminar, Liverpool University, March 1993.

'Western Europe and the division of Germany', Research Seminar on German History in the 19th and 20th

centuries, St Antony's College, Oxford, November 1992.

'German division and German national identity', Annual Conference of the Social History Society,

'National Identities', Glasgow University 4-6 January 1992.

'A new look at the division of Germany', Research Seminar of the German Studies Centre, Keele

University, November 1991.

'Neubergleute an der Ruhr nach 1945', Research Seminar, Lehrstuhl Professor Reulecke, University of

Siegen, June 1991.

'The 'coal war'. Manpower, coal and economic recovery', Annual Conference of the Economic History

society, Manchester, April 1991.


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'The British, the Ruhr mines and German recovery 1945-9', Shrewsbury Historical Association, November

30 1990.

'Foreign workers in the Ruhr during World War 2', National and racial minorities in total war, Keele

University, September 1990.

'Wohnungsbau, Wirtschaftswunder und sozialer Wandel zwischen Kapitulation und Kohlenkrise',

International Mining History Congress, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, F.R.G. 4.-7 September

1989.

'An ideology-free Zone? Propaganda and the Ruhr miners 1945 - 1958', Annual conference of the

German Historical Association, London, October 1988.

'Between integration and ideology. Employers, new labour and the miners' hostels in the Ruhr', Research

Seminar, Birmingham University Social History Society, Dec 1987.

'The uncontrolled economy', Research Seminar at the Centre for West European Studies, St.Antony's

College, Oxford, Dec 1987.

'Recasting the labour force. Employers, new labour and mining hostels 1945 - 1958', at Continuity and

change. German society in transition to the new German states 1945-1955, Centre of Applied German

Studies, Liverpool University, September 1987.

'The British and the Ruhr mines', German research seminar series, Aston University, March 1987.

'The uncontrolled economy. British policy and the Ruhr mines 1945 - 1948', for German Historical

Institute Regional Conference: German Reconstruction after 1945, St.Antony's College, Oxford, April

1987.

'The social consequences of World War 2 for Germany'. At Open University: Total War and Social

Change, Milton Keynes, January 1987.

'Auflösung von Innen. Sozialer Wandel im Ruhrbergbau vom Ende der Weimarer Republik bis zum

Anfang der Kohlenkrise'. At Ruhr Universität Bochum, Institut zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung:

"Zechenschließungen", Bochum, F.R.G., December 11-14 1986.

'Class and political allegiance in the Ruhr,' Research Seminar, Aston Modern Languages project: Political

Culture, Aston, March 1986

'The transformation of the German working class: the example of the Ruhr mining community,' Research

Seminar, Centre for Social History, Warwick University, January 1986.

'Shaping and reshaping the Ruhr: The role of state intervention in the integration of new labour - a

comparison between the post-1945 reconstruction and the Kaiserreich,' Max Weber Centre for applied

German Studies: The State and Social Change in Germany 1880 - 1960, Liverpool, January 1986.

'Reconstruction and change in the Ruhr Mining Community in the era before the coal crisis,' Institut

Jean-Baptiste Dumay: Techniques, pouvoirs, main d'oeuvre et reconversion dans les mines de charbon

d'Europe occidentale apres la seconde guerre mondiale, Le Creusot, France, October 1985.

'Refugees & social change: a study of the impact of the refugees on post-war German society using the

example of the mining community in the Ruhr.' In Refugee Studies Programme Oxford/ Refugees

Documentation Project, York University, Canada:Twentieth Century Refugees in Europe and the Middle

East, Oxford, August 1985.

'New Miners in the Ruhr. Introduction to a current research project', Research Seminar of Aston Modern

Languages Dept, May 1985


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'Debacle in the Ruhr. British manpower policy in the Ruhr mines 1945 - 1947.' Max Weber Centre for

German Studies: Symposium: The post-war economic recovery of East and West Germany, Liverpool,

April 1985.

Various invited papers to the research seminars of Professor Hans Mommsen and Professor Dietmar

Petzina at Bochum University and to the Institut zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, Bochum 1983-4

'Die Integration der Neubergleute'. Symposion: Sozialer und oekonomischer Strukturwandel des Dorfes

und kleinstaedtischer Regionen im Zusammenhang mit der Eingliederung von Fluechtlingen, Goettingen,

F.R.G., February 1984.

'Neubergleute im Ruhrbergbau. Darstellung eines laufenden Geschichtsprojekts.' Wirtschaftspolitik,

Bewirtschaftungssystem und soziale Verhaeltnisse im britischen Besatzungsgebiet 1945 - 1948/9,

Klaukenhof, near Lennestadt, F.R.G., September 1983.

Public lectures "Bureaucrats of genocide. Understanding Hitler's henchmen" Bernard Weiner Memorial Lecture, Stetson

University, Florida, March 31, 2009

‚How to think the unthinkable: the Wannsee conference and the origins of the ‘Final Solution’‛ Butler

University, Indianapolis, February 25, 2009

‚Hitler's Al Qaeda? Making sense of participation in the Holocaust", August 14th, 2008, Holocaust

Museum, Houston, Texas

‚Glimpses in the Blinding Light: Nazi Perpetrators Seen Through the Eyes of Their Victims‛ as part of

the lecture series ‚The Holocaust: History, Perspectives, and Representations‛ jointly organized by the

The Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University and The Center for

Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), June 18th,

2008 Bloomington Indiana

‚Beyond belief – Understanding Hitler’s killers‛ U.C. Irvine Humanities Center May 9 2007 [also

available as podcast at: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/events/multimedia.php?pod_id=27]

‚Beyond Conviction? Field Gendarme Lt Pallmann as a perpetrator in the light of post-war trial

evidence‛, Borns Jewish Studies Summer Lecture Series, Bloomington July 2006

„’Mit Kant und Köperbildung gegen Hitler?’ Lebensreform und Widerstand im Dritten Reich‚.

Hamburger Instititut für Sozialforschung, April 24 2006

‚The Hidden Rescuers of the Ruhr: Saving Jewish Lives in Nazi Germany‛ the Jewish Studies

Colloquium at Berkeley, September 15 2005.

‘Violence in Jewish history: the modern perspective’ Glazer Chair Installation, Indiana University, May 2

2005

Address, Holocaust Day Commemoration, Indiana University April 19 2005‘Surviving underground in

Nazi Germany. In search of a past in hiding’ Public lecture, Kent State, 27th October 2004

‘Trauma, displacement and identity. Reflections on holocaust biography’, invited lecture Knox

University, Gainsburg, Illinois, 1 October 2004

‘Surviving underground in Nazi Germany - in search of a past in hiding’, Talk given to friends of the

Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indianapolis July 8th 2004

‘Making sense of the Holocaust’, Yom HaShoah memorial lecture, Adath B'nai Israel Temple, Evansville,

Indiana, April 18 2004

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/events/multimedia.php?pod_id=27


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“Shoot First and Ask Questions Afterwards?': Wannsee and the 'Final Solution' Invited Seminar, Jewish

Studies Students Association, Bloomington March 9 2004

‘The past in hiding: in search of the life of a Holocaust survivor’, Beth Shalom Synagogue lecture,

Bloomington Sunday 15th Feb 2004

‚Between fanaticism and banality. Understanding the perpetrators of the holocaust‛, University of

Southampton December 9 2003.

Murder First and Ask Questions Afterwards? Understanding the Wannsee Conference, January 1942’

Public Lecture, Michigan State University, Monday, April 7, 2003

‘The villa, the lake, the meeting’, Jewish Museum London 28th January 2003

“Dore Jacobs’ in the lecture series "Essener Köpfe", sponsored by the city of Essen to commemorate its

1150th anniversary "1150 Jahre Stift und Stadt Essen", Haus der Technik, Essen, 20 June 2002

‘Survival and Rescue’, Westminster Synagogue, London, 16.5.02

‘The League for Socialist Life: An Unknown Group of Righteous Gentiles’ Bournemouth Limmud,

5.5.2002

‘Rescue and the Holocaust’. Annual Interfaith Lecture, Michigan State University, 7.4.2002

Lectures on ‘In einem unbewachten Augenblick. Ein Frau überlebt im Untergrund’ in Essen, Düsseldorf,

Leizpig, Dresden, Berlin and Wuppertal 20-27th March 2002

‘The Wannsee Conference. Is there anything new to say.’ 26th Annual Leonard Montefiore Memorial

lecture, ’45 Aid Society 13 March 2002; also at Hay on Wye Literary Festival, 6 June.2002; Annual

Lecturer of the Association of Jewish Refugees, London, 16 June 02; Edinburgh Literary Festival,

Edinburgh, August 2002; Veranstaltungsreihe der Mahn u Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf 23 January 2003

“Mordbeschluss mit anschließendem Frühstück? Das Rätsel der Wannsee-Konferenz am 20. Januar 1942’,

Guest Lecture as part of the academic program accompanying the German Historical Museum exhibition:

‘Holocaust. Der Nationalsozialistische Voelkermord und die Motive seiner Erinnerung’, Akademie der

Künste, Berlin 26 February 2002

‘Surviving Memory: Understanding the Memories of a Holocaust Survivor’, Research Seminar, James

Madison College, Michigan State University, 19 March 2001

Lecture ‘The Past in Hiding’: Manchester Jewish Museum, 24 October 2000; Waterstone’s Liverpool, 6

November 2000; Student History Society, Trinity College Dublin, 16 November 2000 ; Detroit Holocaust

Museum, 21 March 2001; King Edward College, Stourbridge, 6 April 2001 ; 1st Ernest Sterne Memorial

Lecturer, Sinai Synagogue, Leeds, 13 May 2001; Royal Grammar School, Worcester, 17 May 2001 ;

Edinburgh Literary Festival, Edinburgh, 18 August 01

‘The Germans and their Jews’, Seminar on the Shoah, Manchester Reform Synagogue, 5 May 00.

‘Im Verborgenen – die Rettung der Marianne Strauß vor den Nationalsozialisten’ Jüdisches Museum

Westfalen, Dorsten June 1999

‘Good Germans and bad Germans’, Jewish Historical Society, Birmingham February 1998

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