Alina Bothe studied History, Politics and Eastern European History at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2012 to 2015 she was a research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis about the “digital turn” in Shoah memory, focusing on the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive. Her research fields among others include Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Shoah History and Conceptual History. She has published volumes on testimony, gender and digital media and edited a Special Issue of the Leo Baeck Yearbook about a conceptual history of the term survivor. Her postdoc research (Habilitation/second book) deals with the deportation of Polish Jews from the German Reich between October 1938 and September 1939. For this project she has been awarded the postdoc fellowship of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. She is currently curating an exhibition about the expulsion from Berlin in October 1938, to be opened in June 2018 at the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin. For part of this project she received the USC Shoah Foundation's Teaching Fellowship.