Ben Barkow

Ben Barkow ( born 1956 in Berlin) is director of the Wiener Library in London.

Life

Barkow was born in Berlin and came at the age of four years to London. He studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and University College London. After serving as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started for the Wiener Library, Institute of Contemporary History, to work in London. Today he is her director.

Writings

• Ben Barkow and Stefan Zeidenitz: The Xenophobe 's Guide to the Germans. Ravette Books, Horsham 1993, ISBN 1-85304-561-6.
• Ben Barkow: Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library. Vallentine Mitchell, London 1997, ISBN 0-85303-328-5.
• Testament of the Holocaust: Series 1-3 / ed. by Ben Barkow. Primary Source Microfilm, Gale Group, Reading 1998-2001. ISBN 0-7536-5418-0.
• Philipp Manes: As if one 's life would: factual report Theresienstadt 1942-1944 / ed. by Ben Barkow and Klaus Leist. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin, 2005. ISBN 3-550-07610- X.
• Pogrom of November 1938: eyewitness accounts of the Wiener Library, London / ed. by Ben Barkow ... Jewish Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008. ISBN 978-3-633-54233-8.