Introduction

Julie Dawson (Columbia University, MA in Jewish Studies, Certificate in East Central European Studies); Northwestern University, BA in German, BM in Ethnomusicology) is a doctoral candidate in the University of Vienna’s Institute for Contemporary History. Her dissertation examines post-war Jewish life in Romania through the lens of the re- cently found diaries of a Transnistrian survivor. Dawson has worked extensively in and with Romanian archival repositories, and she directed the Leo Baeck Institute’s archival survey of Transylvania and Bukovina (jbat.lbi.org) from 2012 to 2019. From 2016 to 2019, she was researcher-in-residence in Mediaș, Romania, for the EU Horizon 2020 project “TRACES: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts”. She held a Fortunoff Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute from 2020 to 2021, and she currently holds a doctoral grant from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (2022–2024). She has published in, amongst others, European Holocaust Studies, Vol- ume 3: Places, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust and Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. Her research interests include Jewish Bukovina, communist Romania, women’s history, and trauma and memory studies.

Marianne Windsperger works as a research coordinator in the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). She studied Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at the University of Vienna. She has been a member of the executive board of the Theodor Kramer Society for Exile Studies in Vienna since 2018. Her research and publications focus on literary representations of the Holocaust, the afterlife of Yiddish literature, and transgenerational memorial practices. Her most recent publications in- clude Places and Media of Encounter. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity of Jewish Litera­ tures (2021), edited with Olaf Terpitz, and Preserving Lived Contexts. Yizker bikher as Portable Archives from Transgenerational Perspective (2021).