Ben Barkow

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Name Ben Barkow		Role Writer
Books The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans, Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library, Storeys of Memory Education Middlesex University, University College London

Ben Barkow (born 1956) is the director of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide and a writer.

Barkow was born in Berlin but lived in London from the age of four. He studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and at University College London. After employment as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started to work for the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History and is today its director. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance magazine.

Publications

Barkow is the author or editor of these books:

Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library (1997) (ISBN 0-85303-328-5)

Testaments of the Holocaust, series 1 – 3 (editor) (1998–2000)

Philipp Manes, Als ob’s ein Leben wär: Tatsachenbericht Theresienstadt 1942-1944 (editor with Klaus Leist) (2005)

Novemberpogrom 1938: Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library, (with Raphel Gross and Michael Lenarz) London (2008)

Philipp Manes, As Though it were a Life (with Klaus Leist, in preparation)

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