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Christina Wirth, M.Ed.

Affiliated researcher, CRC subproject From "Displaced Persons" to "Refugee"

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Christina Wirth is an affiliated researcher at Leibniz-Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz since July 2025. From 2021–2025 she was an academic staff member at IEG and the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1482 Human Differentiation within the project “From Displaced Persons to Refugee”. She studied history and German philology as well as educational studies at Georg-August-University Goettingen and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Christina was a student assistant for a German medieval dictionary, the Arolsen Archives and the chair of theory and methods of history in Goettingen. In 2021, she received her Master of Education with honors. Her thesis dealt with narratives about national socialist perpetrators. After graduation she worked as an academic staff member for the Federal Archive Sachsen-Anhalt where she created a teaching material on Jewish history of the state. Since 2021 she is writing her dissertation within the CRC 1482 “Human Categorisation” at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Leibniz Institute of European History about “Legal-Bureaucratic Human Categorization in the Postwar Period: From ‘Displaced Persons’ to ‘Refugee'”. During the academic year 2023 – 2024 she is the first USC Shoah Foundation’s Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies.

  • Jewish History
  • Holocaust Studies
  • History of migration
  • Didactics
  • Theory and Methods of History

  • Christina Wirth: Die Befreiung und Kategorisierung jüdischer Frauen in Kaunitz (Westfalen) ab 1945. Ein Fallbeispiel für Differenzierungsprozesse in der Nachkriegszeit. Westfalen/Lippe – historisch, 14. August 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/126a2
  • Christina Wirth: בבית בסקסוניה-אנהאלט. Zu Hause in Sachsen-Anhalt, Jüdinnen und Juden zwischen Verfolgung, Selbstbehauptung und Anerkennung, Magdeburg 2022 (QuellenNAH 7), https://lha.sachsen-anhalt.de/onlineangebote/quellennah/uebersicht
  • Christina Wirth / Riccarda Henkel: Die Familie Elbthal: Akteur:innen der Jüdischen Gemeinde Magdeburg im 19. Jahrhundert, in: Edith Schriefl, Anton Hieke (Hg.): Gute Orte – Jüdische Grabstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2022 (Kleine Hefte zur Landesgeschichte 1), S. 50-60
  • Christina Wirth / Esther Junghans / Corinna Link: „die letzte Lebensspur der verlorenen Liebsten“ – Erinnern an Einzelschicksale der Massenvernichtung, in: Geschichte Lernen, 206, 2022, S. 60 – 64

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