University of London, Birkbeck College
Jewish Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933–1939
Auschwitz—the largest and most notorious SS concentration camp—was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in…
Miriam Ruerup is a historian of modern German-Jewish history. She works on the history of statelessness from a Jewish perspective. Since 2020 she has been director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and teaches as a full professor of history and European…