Chana Moshenska
Chana Moshenska
Chana Moshenska is the Centre's Director of Educational Programmes. She is responsible for a project on refugee experiences in Britain, 'Welcome to Britain?'. Working with colleagues in Cambridge, she has created educational materials about refugee issues for primary schools. She also organises the Centre's work on Holocaust education in the University and the wider community. She teaches courses at Sussex on the Holocaust, Holocaust Representation, sites of memory, gendering conflict, autobiographies and diaspora experiences. Her research interests include the comparative diaspora experiences of Jews and Ethnic Germans in Galicia, Southern Poland and other areas of eastern Europe; the role of Volksdeutsche/Ethnic Germans in the Third Reich and the Holocaust; the current debate about Auslandsdeutsche in Germany and central and eastern Europe; women in the Holocaust; film and the Holocaust; and the life stories of refugees reflected in memoirs and diaries. She is also interested in the current far right, in particular the issue of Holocaust Denial on the Internet.
Her post is funded by the ANNE FRANK-Fonds in Switzerland.
Contact: c.moshenska@sussex.ac.uk