Ben Barkow Explained

Ben Barkow, (born 1956) is a writer and was the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library from 1998 to 2019.

Barkow was born in Berlin but lived in London from the age of four.^[1] He studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and at University College London. After employment as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started to work for the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History and is today its director. Also he is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance magazine.^[2]

Barkow was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Holocaust Education and Remembrance in 2022.^[3]

Publications

Barkow is the author or editor of these books:

• Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library (1997)
• Testaments of the Holocaust, series 1 – 3 (editor) (1998–2000)
• Philipp Manes, Als ob’s ein Leben wär: Tatsachenbericht Theresienstadt 1942-1944 (editor with Klaus Leist) (2005)
• Novemberpogrom 1938: Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library, (with Raphel Gross and Michael Lenarz) London (2008)
• Philipp Manes, As Though it were a Life (with Klaus Leist, in preparation)

External links

• The Wiener Holocaust Library website
• News: Inside the London Holocaust library. Watts. Peter. 7 May 2008. Time Out. London. 7 September 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100120094707/http://www.timeout.com/london/museums-attractions/features/4766/Inside_the_London_Holocaust_library.html#articleAfterMpu. 20 January 2010. dead.

Notes and References

1. News: Inside the London Holocaust library. Watts. Peter. 7 May 2008. Time Out. London. 7 September 2009.
2. Web site: Who We Are. Jewish Renaissance. 21 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121010150551/http://www.jewishrenaissance.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are.html. 10 October 2012. dead.
3. Web site: Honorary awards to foreign nationals in 2022 . Government of the United Kingdom. 26 September 2022.