Chenxi Liu is a doctoral candidate at Prof. Sybille Steinbacher’s Chair for Research on the History and Impact of the Holocaust and is working on a dissertation project examining the influence of Jewish survivors on early Holocaust historiography, as well as their critical examination of German far-right discourses in the post-war period.
She studied history at Fudan University in Shanghai, before completing a Master’s degree in the subject at Humboldt University in Berlin. For her master’s thesis, she explored the legal prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany through the Krumey-Hunsche trials. In 2022, she received the Young Historians Award of the International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS) for her research on concepts of racism in socialist states.
