Solvej Berlau

MSc, History & International Development Studies

Head of Section, research unit on Holocaust and genocide

T: +45 3269 8933, E: , F: +45 3269 8700

Expertise

I coordinate the educational activities related to Auschwitz Day. My focus is on the educational field Holocaust and genocide in a Danish context. I develop educational programmes including thematic seminars for high school students, teacher training seminars, and Internet based education (articles, computergames, documentary film etc.).

Selected projects and programmes

Coordination of activities related to Auschwitz Day - the annual Danish memorial
day for victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.

Filmic organisation of the DIIS-documentary "THERESIENSTADT - Danish Children
in Nazi Captivity"

Selected publications

"THERESIENSTADT - Danish Children in Nazi Captivity". DIIS-documentary
about the Danish Jewish children that were deported to the Theresienstadt
concentration camp during the time of occupation. 2010

Feature article in Berlingske Tidende with Tine Brøndum. 2010

Feature article in Information with Sine Molbæk-Steensig. 2009

Looking back - looking forward - Genocide Education in a Danish Context. 2007

MSc thesis: "The conflict in Darfur and the responses of the international
community"

Selected research related activities

Member of the Danish delegation to the Task Force for International Cooporation
on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research and chair of subcommittee
working with remembrance days on a transnational basis.

Guest Lecturer at Centre for African Studies, Copenhagen University

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