Dr. Sara Berger

Exhibitions

Sara Berger has been Research Associate at the Fritz Bauer Institute since 2020. She is responsible for the Institute’s exhibitions. Since 2023 she is also working on the project »The Holocaust on Tape. Recordings of Trials Concerning ›Operation Reinhardt‹ in East and West Germany«. She studied history, social psychology and Italian language and literature at Ruhr University Bochum. In 2011, she was awarded her doctorate from Ruhr University Bochum for her thesis on the »Operation Reinhardt« extermination camps. From 2009 to 2020, she was working at the Fondazione Museo della Shoah in Rome, where she designed and organised temporary exhibitions on topics such as Auschwitz, the ghettos in Poland, the persecution of Jews in Italy and diplomatic reports from Italy on the persecution of Jews in Europe 1938–1943. From 2012 to 2017, she edited the Italian section of the series The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945. Sara Berger also collaborated on exhibition projects of German museums.

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Research interests

• History of Nazi extermination camps
• History of the persecution of Jews in Italy
• Perpetrator research
• History of Nazi war crimes trials

Current Research Project

• The Holocaust on Tape. Recordings of Trials Concerning »Operation Reinhardt« in East and West Germany

Selected publications

• Ich gebe zu, dass mir manchmal die Hände zitterten. Hilfe für verfolgte Juden in Italien 1943–1945, hrsg. v. Gedenkstätte Stille Helden in der Stiftung Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Berlin 2021
• Bearb. (mit Sanela Schmid, Erwin Lewin, Maria Vassilikou): Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945. Bd. 14: Besetztes Südosteuropa und Italien, hrsg. im Auftrag des Bundesarchivs, des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin und des Lehrstuhls für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte der Universität Freiburg, Berlin 2017
• Experten der Vernichtung. Das T4-Reinhardt-Netzwerk in den Lagern Belzec, Sobibor und Treblinka, Hamburg 2013

List of publications

• Publications (pdf-file)