The content of the online platform is edited by a team of university students, doctoral candidates, historians and political educators. In addition to selecting and editing articles, we also work together on publications and events that make testimonies of persecuted people visible and usable as historical sources.
Kolja Buchmeier
is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He studied philosophy and interdisciplinary research on antisemitism in Leipzig and Berlin. From 2022 to 2024, he was a research trainee at the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. His research focuses on the history and memory of Nazi concentration camps, POWs and forced labour during World War II as well as memorial sites and the musealisation of Nazi crimes.
Pia Dressler
studied history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She completed her bachelor’s degree in German studies in Leipzig. She has been working as a freelance educational consultant at the Documentation Centre for Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide since January 2023. Her research interests include dealing with the Holocaust in literature, Polish social history of the 20th century and forced labour under National Socialism.
Lara Raabe
studied history at Humboldt-University of Berlin and at the University of Sheffield, Great Britain. From 2022 to 2023, she was a research assistant at the Research Centre on Antigypsyism at the Department of History at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Since December 2023, she is a doctoral candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute/Goethe University Frankfurt and is supported by the Gerda Henkel Scholarship. In her dissertation project, she is investigating the justice system’s handling of the crimes against Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
Thomas Stein
is studying for a master’s degree in Global History in Berlin. He completed a bachelor’s degree in political science and history in Tübingen. He currently works as a freelance educational consultant at the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. His research interests are international relations in recent history in general and the German-Soviet War in particular.
Simon Zierk
is studying for a master’s degree in history at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He completed a bachelor’s degree in history and political science at the Freie University Berlin. His research interests are the history of National Socialism and the history of Zionism. He is currently working as a student assistant at the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism (JFDA).
Niklas Zodel
studied Modern and Contemporary History and Political Science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and is currently completing his master’s degree in Contemporary History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests are the perpetrator history of National Socialism with a focus on the police and the history of the Holocaust. In addition to his studies, he works as a tutor and student assistant at the Chair of German History in the 20th Century with a focus on National Socialism at the Institute of History at Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Lisa Schrimpf, Fritz Bauer Institut/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M
Paula Simon, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg