Maria Vassilikou
Researcher on matters regarding the Holocaust and Holocaust education at the Jewish Museum of Greece
Dr Maria Vassilikou received her PhD from UCL for her thesis “Politics of the Jewish Community of Salonika in the Interwar Years: Party Ideologies and Party Competition”. She has participated in international conferences in Great Britain, Germany, Greece and Israel and taught modern European and Jewish history at UCL and Potsdam University. She has published articles in English, German and Greek on the Campbell riots, the Jewish cemetery of Salonika, the education of Salonika Jews, Greek-Jewish relations in Odessa and Salonika as well as on postwar Greek Jewry. She is the co-editor of Der Ort des Judentums in der Gegenwart (2006), and co-author of volume XIV of the documentary edition Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland, 1933-1945 (2017). Since 2019 she has been working as a researcher on matters regarding the Holocaust and Holocaust education at the Jewish Museum of Greece. As of 2023 she has been teaching Modern Greek at the Volkshochschule in Berlin and the Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office).