Dr. Anna Ullrich

Dr. Anna Ullrich joined the Mandel Center in 2024 as the director of International Academic Programs. Together with her team, she is promoting the vitality of international research in the field of Holocaust Studies through research workshops, international conferences, and programs supporting scholars and scholarship in Ukraine.

The research of Dr. Ullrich focuses on German Jewish associations during the interwar period as well as German Jewish experiences of antisemitism in the prewar years.

Previously, Dr. Ullrich was a research associate at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich where she served as a program manager and led several projects for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). These included organizing and overseeing the implementation of EHRI’s fellowship program, methodological seminars and online courses, and establishing a sustainable research strategy based on trends and challenges in the field of Holocaust research. 

Education

• PhD, history, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, 2016

• MA, history, political science and media studies, University of Trier, Germany, 2012

Languages

• German

• English

Publications

• (ed. with Joanna Michlic and Yuliya von Saal) Childhood during War and Genocide - Agency, Survival, and Representation, European Holocaust Studies 5 (Göttingen, 2024)

• (with Reto Speck) “Is digital better? Lessons Learned from Building the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)”, in: Sammlungsforschung im digitalen Zeitalter. Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen, ed. by Katharina Günther und Stefan Alschner (Göttingen, 2024)

• (ed. with David Jünger) Special Section “German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis, 1914–1938” in: Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 66 (Oxford 2021)

• “Eine Frage der Erwartung? Der Centralverein und die Wahrnehmung und Einschätzung der nichtjüdischen Deutschen”, in: “Was soll aus uns werden?” Zur Geschichte des Centralvereins deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland, ed. by Regina Grundmann, Bernd Hartmann and Daniel Siemens (Berlin: 2020)

• Von “jüdischem Optimismus” und “unausbleiblicher Enttäuschung”. Erwartungsmanagement deutsch-jüdischer Vereine und gesellschaftlicher Antisemitismus 1914-1938 (Berlin, 2019)

• “EHRI Seminars: Researching and Remembering the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century”, in: The Holocaust in the Borderlands: interethnic relations and the dynamics of violence in occupied Eastern Europe, European Holocaust Studies 2, ed. by Gaëlle Fisher and Caroline Mezger (Göttingen, 2019) 

• Fading Friendships and the ‘Decent German’. Reflecting, Explaining and Enduring Estrangement in Nazi Germany, 1933–1938, in: The Holocaust and European Societies - Social Processes and Social Dynamics, ed. by Frank Bajohr and Andrea Löw (London 2016). 

Select Presentations and Interviews

• (with Katharina Freise) “European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – an introduction” at the IHRA meeting in Stockholm, June 2022

• European Holocaust Research Infrastructure: New Sources and New Methods, an interview with Andrea Pető for the CEU podcast series on World War II, November 2018