Dr Anna Koch, Lecturer in Modern German History, was the 2025 winner of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies book prize, for ‘Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust’ (Indiana University Press, 2023).
BIAJS commented - “Anna Koch’s book is a brilliant comparative historical study that examines how Jews who survived the Holocaust attempted to return to and rebuild. The book draws on a wide range of primary sources, including memoirs, interviews, correspondence, and archival records, to illuminate the personal and collective struggles of Jewish returnees in the immediate post-war years. It is wonderfully written and based not only on a broad array of sources, but also on innovative concepts such as the one of emotional communities which contributes to a particular emotional depth of the book. Anna Koch’s book makes a considerable and outstanding contribution to post-Holocaust history and to our understanding of survivors’ search for home.”
The book is available to buy here.