Jürgen Matthäus

Following his work as senior historian for the war crimes investigations unit of the Australian Attorney General’s Department, Dr. Matthäus came to the Museum as a Pearl Resnick Fellow in 1994. He was subsequently involved in a number of the Museum’s research and archival acquisitions projects before he took over the Mandel Center’s Applied Research team, a position he has held since 2005. The research division’s core projects include the Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 and its series of source volumes Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context. With his team of staff historians and contract researchers, Dr. Matthäus has shaped the in-house production of the Mandel Center’s publications and participated in fostering networks of Holocaust scholars within North America and beyond. Dr. Matthäus has taught at universities in the United States, Australia, and Germany, and has published widely on a range of subjects related to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is currently working on a project that analyzes photo albums created by Germans deployed during World War II in occupied Eastern Europe. https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/our-staff-and-scholars/staff/juergen-matthaeus