Martin Winstone

Senior Historical Advisor to the Holocaust Educational Trust

Martin Winstone is Senior Historical Advisor to the Holocaust Educational Trust and Project Historian for the UK Holocaust Memorial, which is currently in development in London. He is an expert on the history of the Holocaust in Poland as well as on the history and nature of Holocaust sites across Europe. His first book, The Holocaust Sites of Europe (first published 2010; third edition, 2024), is a comprehensive guide to Holocaust-related sites, including camps, mass shooting sites and ghettos. He is also the author of The Dark Heart of Hitler’s Europe (2014), a history of the General Government, the region of German-occupied Poland which was the central killing ground of the Holocaust. Martin has frequently appeared as a commentator on the Holocaust on television and radio and in the press.