Graduate Research: Alex Sessa on Jane Haining and Holocaust Memory in Scotland

Scottish Centre for Global History by University of Dundee

Episode notes

Dr Alex Sessa discusses his doctoral research on Jane Haining, the Scottish missionary who died during the Holocaust. Alex elaborates on the findings of his research, his methodologies, the popular memories of Miss Haining and the wider state of Holocaust remembrance in Scotland. He also discusses his own public history work with the Imperial War Museum, the Wiener Holocaust Library and the Historians Magazine.