ProfJohannes-Dieter Steinert

My research interests focus on German, British and European social and political history, with special emphasis on international migration and minorities, forced migration, forced labour, survivors of Nazi persecution, and international humanitarian assistance.

Current research projects:
(1) Romani child forced labourers in National Socialist Germany and German occupied Eastern Europe.
(2) A halfpenny and Auschwitz: The Dering v Uris libel case at QBVII in London, 1964.

I have initiated and co-organised several major international multidisciplinary conferences:
(1) European Immigrants in Britain 1933-1950 – German Historical Institute, London, 2000.
(2) Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution – Imperial War Museum, London, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 – Wiener Library and Birkbeck College, London, 2018, 2023, 2026.
(3) Children and War: Past and Present – University of Salzburg, Austria, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2023.

Research grants:
(1) Germany: Gerda Henkel Stiftung; Volkswagen Stiftung; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Koerber Stiftung; Stiftung "Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft".
(2) Austria: Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.
(3) Israel: Yad Vashem.
(4) UK: Toni Schiff Memorial Fund; British Academy; Arts and Humanities Research Council.