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, 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

• “Experiential Knowledge and 'Barbed Wire Doctors' in World War II,” December 2025, Contentious Topics in the History of Science conference, Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Helsinki).

• “From Social Death to Legal Death: Legislating the End of the Holocaust,” October 2025, conference on Contemporary Perspectives on the Post-World War II World, Columbia University.