British librarian (born 1956)
Ben Barkow, CBE (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) (ISBN 0-85303-328-5)
- 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)
References
- ^ Watts, Peter (7 May 2008). "Inside the London Holocaust library". Time Out. London. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
- ^ "Who We Are". Jewish Renaissance. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
- ^ "Honorary awards to foreign nationals in 2022". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
External links
- The Wiener Holocaust Library website
- Watts, Peter (7 May 2008). "Inside the London Holocaust library". Time Out. London. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
