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LBI Scholars in Conversation

At the Leo Baeck Institute London, we are shining a light on the work of our affiliated scholars – from postdoctoral fellows and PhD researchers to board members and other experts. In our new series LBI Scholars in Conversation, these interviews explore German-Jewish history, memory politics and related themes, starting with our recent discussion with Dr Alexander Brown on Holocaust memory and antifascism in the GDR.

These conversations challenge established views and recover marginalised stories, from East German commemoration to Jewish antifascist lives. They show how the LBI fosters research linking past divisions to today’s debates on memory and belonging.

LBI London recently sat down with Dr Monja Stahlberger, who has just completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute, where her research explored how German-Jewish exile families transmitted cultural memory across generations and national borders. Drawing on personal archives, diaries, and letters held in collections from London to Vancouver, Stahlberger’s work illuminates the deeply human dimensions of forced migration that official records so often miss. We spoke about what ego-documents reveal that history books cannot, how Kindertransport children…

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LBI London recently caught up with Dr Alexander Brown, the Institute’s new Postdoctoral Fellow, whose research interrogates the complexities of Holocaust memory in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Brown’s work, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, reconsiders long-held assumptions about antifascism, remembrance, and historical responsibility in the ‘other Germany’. We spoke about how his path led him to study GDR memory politics, what his project reveals about Holocaust commemoration behind the Iron Curtain, and how these debates still resonate in Germany and…

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