Joana Bürger is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Washington (USA). She holds an MA in Middle Eastern history from Tel Aviv University (Israel) and a BA in psychology from the University of Potsdam (Germany). Joana was the lead curator on the exhibition “A Turkish Jew in Nazi Germany” at the Holocaust Center for Humanity. She served as a digital humanities curator and editor of “Embers of the Ottoman Empire,” an online folio produced by the Stroum Center of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington and Ayin Press. She received the Ina & Richard Willner Memorial Fellow at the Stroum Center of Jewish Studies (2023-2025) and the Leon and Edith Milman Memorial Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2026).
PhD Institution: University of Washington
Doctoral Research: Greece as a temporary safe haven and transit space for Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis, with a focus on Greek Jews’ refugee relief work, 1933-1944