Lecture Nina Janz (Marie Curie Fellow at the NIOD)
Nina Janz is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, focusing on the wartime experiences of volunteers from the BeNeLux countries during World War II. Previously, she served as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) on the WARLUX Project at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She earned her PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2019 with a dissertation examining the impact of death, violence, and the memory of WWII in post-war Germany and Russia. She also holds an MA in European Modern History from Fern Universität Hagen (2013) and a BA in Archival Science from the University of Applied Science, Marburg (2008). Her latest publication, "Remnants of Wehrmacht Soldiers: Burial and Commemoration Practices of German Soldiers of the Second World War in Russia and Europe, 1941-2023," was released in 2024 by Peter Lang.