Dr. Christine Schmidt (https://christineeschmidt.com/) is the Co-Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library in London. Her research has focused on the history of postwar tracing and documentation efforts, the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany, and comparative studies of collaboration and resistance in France and Hungary, and she is currently writing a social history of the Wiener Library’s postwar collecting of eyewitness accounts led by Eva Reichmann.
Schmidt has recently published articles in the Journal of Transport History, the European Review of History, American Imago, Culture Unbound, and The Journal of Holocaust Research, and is co-editing Letters and the Holocaust: Methodology, Cases, and Reflections (Bloomsbury, 2025); Survivors of Nazi Persecution - Beyond Camps and Forced Labour (Palgrave, 2024) and Older Jews and the Holocaust (Wayne State UP, 2026).