BEN BARKOW, DR KLAUS LEIST (Wiener Library, London)
Ben Barkow has been Director of the Wiener Library since 2001. He is the author of Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library (1997), the editor of Testaments of the Holocaust, series 1-3 (1998-2000) joint editor of Storeys of Memory (2001) - a volume to mark Britain’s first Holocaust Memorial Day, and co-editor of Philip Manes’ Theresienstadt memoir, Als ob’s ein Leben wär (As though it were a life....) (2005). He teaches a course on antisemitism and the Holocaust at the University of Sussex and was a member of the National Commemoration Advisory Group for the 2005 Holocaust Memorial Day.
Dr Klaus Leist was born in Berlin and studied Economics in Cologne and Basel where he obtained his doctorate. He pursued a successful career with international companies in Strategic Planning, Human Resources and Management in the UK, Belgium, USA and Germany before settling in London, working as a consultant. Since 1988 he has worked at the Wiener Library, concentrating on deciphering and translating old documents, particularly the Philip Manes collection.
