Affiliated Researcher Sarah Grandke

Sarah Grandke works at the intersection of historical research and public history, currently at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on the history of marginalized groups in Central and Eastern Europe. 

In her dissertation project on displaced persons as memory activists, she uncovered the early postwar history of the Flossenbürg and Ebensee concentration camp memorial sites, which had been neglected for decades. She has received various grants and fellowships for her research, including from the Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Vienna, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the Sydney Jewish Museum.

From 2018 to 2023, she served as a curator at the Hamburg documentation center “denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof,” which focuses on deportations during 1933 and 1945. From 2016 to 2018, she worked at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial. Prior to that, Sarah Grandke curated an exhibition project on the history of Sinti and Roma in Bavaria at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.