Janine Fubel is a research associate in the Public History department at the Historical Institute of the FernUniversität in Hagen. In 2023, she completed her PhD in History at the Faculty of Humanities of Humboldt University in Berlin with a dissertation titled “Krieg, Bewegung und extreme Gewalt im Raum Berlin-Brandenburg: Die Evakuierung und Auflösung des KL-Komplexes Sachsenhausen 1945” (War, Movement, and Extreme Violence in the Berlin-Brandenburg Region: The Evacuation and Dissolution of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Complex in 1945). Her research included archival work and study visits in, among other places, the United Kingdom, Israel, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
Selected publications: Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking, edited together with Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024; Der Zweite Weltkrieg als Evakuierungskrieg. Praktiken der Deportation, Räumung und Zerstörung im militärischen Rückzug (The Second World War as a War of Evacuations: Practices of Deportation, Clearance, and Destruction during Military Retreats), special issue of the Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 81,1 (2022), co-edited with Felix Ackermann and Claudia Weber.