Visit by Conny Kristel, a scholarship recipient of the EHRI-ERIC program - dr Emily Roche

At the begining of June, our Institute hosted Dr. Emily Roche, a fellow of the Conny Kristel Program under EHRI-ERIC.
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Dr. Emily Julia Roche is a historian of architecture and researcher of the Holocaust in Poland. She has a PhD from Brown University, USA, and is currently a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University.

In June 2026, she carried out archival research at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute under the EHRI-ERIC Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme.

Her goal was to study the experiences of architects imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the war, especially those forced to help with the architectural expansion of the camp and those active in the resistance movement.


In the JHI collection, Dr. Roche looked for the traces of Zofia Rozensztrauch, an architect from Warsaw who in April 1943 was deported to Majdanek from the Warsaw ghetto. Dr. Roche’s research offers an insight into architectural strategies of survival during the Holocaust and shows how wartime experiences shaped the development of architecture in the post-war period.

The EHRI-ERIC Conny Kristel Program supports research and documentation on the Holocaust. It facilitates international access to an unprecedented range of key archives and collections related to the Holocaust, as well as access to expertise in archival science and digital humanities.

The Conny Kristel Fellowships are funded by the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), which is an independent European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).

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