Dr. Susanne Barth is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University in Sweden. She is currently pursuing a research project on the murder of sick and unfit prisoners in Upper Silesian Schmelt camps. This research has received support from the Baltic Sea Foundation and a Thesaurus Poloniae Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the International Cultural Center in Poland. Dr. Barth received a PhD in history from Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany.
Her dissertation, “The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke and the Auschwitz Subcamp Blechhammer,” written with the support of a Kagan Fellowship, was awarded the Belgian dissertation prize “Prix Fondation Auschwitz-Jacques Rozenberg, 2021-2022.” She is the author of From Schmelt Camp to “Little Auschwitz”: Blechhammer’s Role in the Holocaust (Purdue University Press, 2024). Her articles appeared in Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Śląski Kwartalnik Historiczny Sobótka, and European History Quarterly.