Anna-Maria Droumpouki

Anna Maria Droumpouki was born in Athens in 1980. She studied History and Archaeology and obtained a master's degree in "Museum Studies" from the University of Athens. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from the same university. She has worked as a visiting researcher at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig (2009). Her book "Monuments of Oblivion: Traces of World War II in Greece and Europe," an edited version of her doctoral dissertation, was published in June 2014 by Polis Editions. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center for Modern History at Panteion University, focusing on German reparations for the Jews of Greece ("Theft and Restitution: German Reparations for the Holocaust of Greek Jews"). Her postdoctoral research was published in 2019 by Potamos Editions ("An Endless Negotiation: The Reconstruction of Greek Jewish Communities and German Reparations, 1945-1961"). She is a founding member of the Laboratory for the Study of Modern Greek Jewry, the scientific coordinator of the 'Memories of Occupation in Greece' program at the Free University of Berlin (2016-2018), and a research partner of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2019-2021). She has published in Greek and international journals and collective volumes. Her research interests focus on the memory of the 1940s, the Holocaust, memory studies, and cultural history.