Sarah Grandke

Project Staff Member

A publication on the Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

Department of History
Grabengasse 3-5
3rd floor
Room 304

The history of migration in 20th-century Europe, North America and Australia, with a particular focus on Displaced Persons (DPs)
The history and legacy of National Socialism in German-speaking countries and Eastern Europe
Political uses of history and conflicts over memory in Germany and Eastern Europe
The history of marginalised groups, including Sinti and Roma

Since February 2026: Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Heidelberg, specialising in Eastern European History / Research Centre on Antiziganism
2021–2026 PhD at the University of Regensburg; Title: Displaced Persons and Memory Activism. A Transnational Post-History of the Flossenbürg and Ebensee Concentration Camps; thesis defence pending
2018–2023 Curator and research assistant at the denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof Documentation Centre, Hamburg / Hamburg Memorial and Learning Sites Foundation for the Remembrance of the Victims of Nazi Crimes
2018–2021 Lecturer, RFW University of Bonn, History & Culture of Eastern Europe, and University of Regensburg, History Didactics
9/2017–12/2018 Research assistant, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial
9/2016–9/2017 Research Trainee, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial
2/2016–8/2016 Research Assistant, Munich Nazi Documentation Centre, on the exhibition project on the persecution of Sinti and Roma in Bavaria 1933–1945
10/2013–2/2016 MA Elite Graduate Programme in Eastern European Studies, LMU Munich (including 2015: Internship abroad at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine)
10/2009–3/2013 BA in Public Policy and History, University of Erfurt (including 2011/12: Semester abroad at the University of Łódź, Poland)

Dec 2024–Apr 2025 Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra
Oct 2024 Fellow, University of Vienna, ERC project GLORE – Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons Learned from the Postwar Period (1945–1951)
10/2023–4/2024 Visiting Research Fellow, Sydney Jewish Museum
1–2/2023 Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw
10/2022–1/2026 PhD scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation
2010–2016 Study grant, Foundation of German Business (SDW)

2025 Digital StoryMap: ‘Getting Away from War and Communism’ – about displaced persons and their journey to Australia.
2022 Last Signs of Life: An Exhibition on Postcards from Jews, Sinti and Roma Deported from Hamburg and Northern Germany.