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Dr Ellen Pilsworth’s forthcoming monograph Reading Hitler’s Victims: Refugee Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers during Appeasement and War<\/em><\/a> is now in production with Berghahn Books. It will be launched at the University of Reading in October 2026. Ellen is looking forward t<\/span>o discussing her book with Reading <\/span>Professor Emeritus Bryan Cheyette, <\/a>whose course on reading Holocaust testimony was <\/span>the first of its kind in a British university<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event will be run in collaboration with Reading’s History seminar series, and the seminar series of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing<\/a>. More info to follow in due course.<\/p>\n

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