Ben Barkow, CBE (born 1956) is a writer and was the director of the Wiener Holocaust Library from 1998 to 2019.
Barkow was born in Berlin but lived in London from the age of four. [1] He studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and at University College London. After employment as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started to work for the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History and is today its director. Also he is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance magazine. [2]
Barkow was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to Holocaust Education and Remembrance in 2022. [3]
Barkow is the author or editor of these books:
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