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Dr. Jan Lambertz

Dr. Jan Lambertz
Applied Researcher
Areas of Expertise
  • Wartime aid for Jewish prisoners in camps and ghettos

  • Knowledge about the Holocaust in the early postwar years

  • The history of tracing services for Jews during and immediately following World War II

  • World War II Axis-Allied prisoner exchanges

Contact Information

Email lambertz@ushmm.org

Media contact Raymund Flandez, Senior Communications Officer, 202.314.1772, rflandez@ushmm.org

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

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.