Dr. Jan Lambertz

Dr. Lambertz contributes to multiple projects advancing Holocaust scholarship at the Mandel Center. 

She is currently coediting Nazi Sites for Racial Persecution, Detention, Murder, and Resettlement of Non-Jews, a forthcoming volume of the Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. She was a contributing editor for the Mandel Center’s book series, “Documenting Life and Destruction,” including the five-volume Jewish Responses to Persecution.

Dr. Lambertz received the 2019 Prize of the German Historical Institute London for her outstanding PhD thesis submitted to the History Department of Royal Holloway, University of London, entitled “Early Postwar Holocaust Knowledge and Jewish Missing Persons.”

She is co-organizer of a comparative project on relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners in Nazi detention sites and conducted research for the Independent Commission of Historians on the role of the German Foreign Office during National Socialism and after 1945.

Education

• PhD, history, Royal Holloway, University of London

Languages

• English

• German

Select Publications

• “Archiving the Holocaust,” in The Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. I, edited by Mark Roseman and Dan Stone (2025)

• “Atrocity Accounts in Transit: Prisoner Exchanges to the Americas during the Second World War,” Journal of Migration History, vol. 11, no. 2 (2025)

• “Calculating War, Calculating Peace: The Rockefeller Foundation and Science Research in Britain,” European Review of History, vol. 30 (2023). Reprinted in Voluntary Organisations, the Red Cross, and the Features of Humanitarian Reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars (2025).

• More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos, coeditor (2022)

• “Leaving Virginia: Human Need in the Shadow of War,” in To Take Us Lands Away: Essays in Honour of Margaret R. Hunt, edited by Astrid Wendel-Hansen, Katarina Nordström, and Francisca Hoyer (2022)

• “Excursion sur le champ de bataille: Les cimetières juifs allemands sous le régime nazi,” in Faire l'histoire des violences en guerre, Annette Becker, un engagement, edited by Andrea Brazzoduro, Ken Daimaru, and Fabien Théofilakis (2021) (Download PDF)

• “Going Underground: Burial, Restitution, and Jewish Space in Postwar Germany,” Medaon: Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung (Dresden) 15, no. 28 (2021). Reprinted in French in the Revue d’histoire de la Shoah (Paris), issue 215 (2022)

• “The Urn and the Swastika: Recording Death in the Nazi Camp System,” German History, vol. 38 (2020)

• “Early Post-war Holocaust Knowledge and the Search for Europe's Missing Jews,” Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 53 (2019)

• “En quarantaine pendant la guerre froide: Norbert Wollheim et la détention sur Ellis Island,” Nuevo Mundo/Mundos Nuevos (2016)

Select Presentations

• “Erasing the 'J' Stamp: A Meditation on ITS Taxonomies,” May 2025, Wiener Holocaust Library (London)

• “‘Premature Aging’ and European Medical Assessments of Camp Survivors in the Aftermath of the Second World War,” December 2024, Wiener Holocaust Library, London