The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust

Avril Alba is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation in Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is currently working on an ARC Discovery project, ‘The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia’ and an ARC Linkage project, ‘Evaluating the Impact of Holocaust Museum Education’.

Jan Láníček is Associate Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is currently completing a study of post-Holocaust judicial retribution in Czechoslovakia. He also researches Jewish migration to Australia before, during and after World War II. He is currently working, together with Professor Ruth Balint, on an ARC Discovery project, ‘The Holocaust as an Australian Story, 1933–1954’.