Anne-Christin Klotz
Ph.D. Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin

Anne-Christin Klotz is a Ph.D. candidate at Freie Universität Berlin (Eastern European Institute), where she also received her B.A. in History and Jewish Studies and her M.A. in East European Studies. Before and during her studies she worked as a volunteer for the German NGO Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in the educational department at the memorial site Stutthof (Sztutowo, Poland) and as a junior research fellow in the document collection project The Persecution and Extermination of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 at the Institute for Contemporary History, Berlin. Between 2015 and 2018 she was a research assistant at the Selma-Stern-Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, and she is currently a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies. She is writing her thesis on individual and collective reactions of Polish-Jewish journalists who wrote for the Yiddish daily press in Warsaw on the events in Nazi Germany from the moment of Hitler’s rise to power in January 1933 up to the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the following months.