Michelle Kettner, M.A.

Research Experience

Interests:
Culture of remembrance of the Shoah in Southeastern and Eastern Europe; Religious and cultural communities, especially in Romania, Turkey and Iran.

-2022–2024
M.A. in Eastern European Studies, LMU Munich
Initially enrolled in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (2022), switched to Eastern European Studies the same year
Thesis: “Divergences in Women’s Activism among Romanian and Romanian-Jewish Women in Romania (1914–1945).

- October 5–7, 2023
DUHK Workshop ‘Genocide in History and Law’ (Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies, Wrocław)
Presentation: “Forgotten Voices: Women and Children in the Iași Pogrom and the Holocaust in Romania”

-2017–2021
B.A. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Thesis: “The Jewish Population in the maḥalle-ye yahūd in the City of Shiraz in the 19th Century”

Professional Experience

- Since May 2025 – Research Assistant (part-time), Archive of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
- April – September 2025 – Project Assistant, Monacensia (Münchner Stadtbibliotheken) – Rachel Salamander Archive
- 2024 – Student Assistant to Prof. Dr. Máté Rigó
- 2023 – 2024 – Assistant, Elite Graduate Program in East European Studies (LMU) – Coordination and student support
- Feb – Apr 2024 – Internship, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site – Research on Romanian prisoners, digitization of records
- 2022 – 2023 – Student Assistant to Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel
- 2021 – 2023 – Visitor Guide, Jewish Museum Munich – Guided tours and workshops on Jewish history in Munich