Ruth Dahlhoff studies political science and history at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Previously, she worked at the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation in Warsaw. She is working as a student assistant at the Fritz Bauer Institute on the research projects »Polish postwar trials against members of the Auschwitz camp personnel« (Dr. Andrea Rudorff) and »Living conditions of lesbians, gays, transsexuals and Intersexuals in Frankfurt am Main 1933 to 1994« (Dr. Alexander Zinn).