Dr. Anna Rozenfeld

Professional Background

Anna Rozenfeld is a PhD candidate in the Jewish history and culture at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), where she also serves as an associate collegium member in the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg. Dr. Rozenfeld completed her PhD in Yiddish studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and holds a master's degree in Jewish studies and art history from the University of Vienna (Austria), and a master’s degree with honors of interdepartmental individual studies in the humanities at the University of Warsaw. She obtained her bachelor's degree in art history and education from the Phillips University of Marburg (Germany). Dr. Rozenfeld's research areas include Holocaust memory; ego-documents of Holocaust survivors; Holocaust poetry and Yiddish songs; Yiddish language, literature and culture; and Jewish theater, art, and media.

Fellowship Research

Anna Rozenfeld was awarded a Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History-Munich – Mandel Center Exchange Scholar Fellowship for her research project, “Holocaust Survivors’ Accounts in the Yiddish Radio Broadcasts in Poland.” Her project, based on archival research from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s collections investigates the accounts of Holocaust survivors in Jewish radio programs broadcast on Polish radio from Lublin before the end of World War II, beginning in January 1945, and then from Warsaw after its liberation. The primary purpose of these accounts was to allow Holocaust survivors who remained in Poland to bear witness to their wartime experiences and to search for their relatives and friends abroad. This project concentrates mainly on the early broadcasting period in the mid-1940s and complements Rozenfeld's research in Jewish, Holocaust, and Yiddish studies, as well as the history and culture of Polish Jews.

During her fellowship, she will work with the Museum’s many relevant collections and draw on sources in Yiddish, Polish, English, German, French, Hebrew, and Russian.

Residency Period: January 1, 2024–April 31, 2024