The Holocaust

Dr Isabel Wollaston

Isabel Wollaston is Associate Professor in Jewish and Holocaust Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is an expert on the history, representation and memorialization of the Holocaust, with particular reference to Auschwitz. In 2015 Isabel served as President of the British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies (BAIHS). She is currently a member of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Academic Advisory Board for the planned new national memorial and learning centre in London. In November 2017 she was part of a panel representing BIAHS at a European Association for Jewish Studies conference in Krakow marking the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Her contribution was published as '(Re-)visualizing the “heart of hell'? Representations of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando in the art of David Olère and Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)', Holocaust Studies 27:1 (2021). Further publications include A War against Memory? The Future of Holocaust Remembrance (1996); ‘‘Negotiating the marketplace: The role(s) of Holocaust museums today’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 4:1 (2005); ‘The absent, the partial and the iconic in archival photographs of the Holocaust’ in Hannah Ewence and Helen Spurling (eds), Visualizing Jews through the Ages (2015); (with Dominic Williams) , ‘The Sonderkommando and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum’ in Nicholas Chare & Dominic Williams (eds), Testimonies of Resistance: Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando (2019); and “I belong here. I know I ought never to have come back, because it has proved I've never been away”: Kitty Hart-Moxon's documentaries of return’ in Tom Lawson & Andy Pearce (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust (2020).

Martin Winstone

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.

Dr Waitman Beorn

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS is an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA and the inaugural Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He received his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill where he worked under the direction of Christopher Browning. His first book examined the complicity of the German Army in the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, focusing on ground level participation. That book, Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (Harvard University Press, 2014) won the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize for best first book from Harvard Press. The book also received the Honorable Mention for the Sybil Milton Memorial Book Prize for books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust from the German Studies Association. Dr. Beorn is also the author of The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution (Bloomsbury Press, 2018) and has recently finished a book on the Janowska concentration camp outside of Lviv, Ukraine entitled Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press, 2024).

Dr. Beorn has published work in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Central European History, German Studies Review, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, Politics and Governance, and the Geographical Review in addition to chapters in several edited volumes. He has been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and Claims Conference fellowships.

As a public-facing scholar, Dr. Beorn has published pieces in the Washington Post, Time, The New Republic, and The Forward. He has also appeared on CNN, Richard French Live on WRNN, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and TRT. He is an active contributor to public history and engagement on Twitter as well. Dr. Beorn is also the host of The Holocaust History Podcast.

Dr. Beorn teaches courses in Holocaust History, Comparative Genocide, German history, Eastern European history, Antisemitism, Modern European history, Jewish history, Historical Methodology, Public history, and Digital history.

Dr. Beorn is a 2000 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Dr Alasdair Richardson

Dr Alasdair Richardson is Reader in Holocaust Education at the University of Winchester and is currently seconded part-time to the Holocaust Educational Trust as Senior Advisor for Educational Content & Delivery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, and is a former President of the British & Irish Association for Holocaust Studies. He is a member of advisory boards for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and Holocaust Learning UK. Alasdair has published widely in the field of Holocaust Education, with a particular focus on exploring young people’s experiences and learning at Holocaust-related sites, and on the Nazi persecution of Catholics. He has been an educator on the Holocaust Educational Trust’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ programme since 2012, accompanying over 40 educational visits to Poland.