Sybille Steinbacher

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Professor Sybille Steinbacher is Director of the Fritz Bauer Institute.

Sybille is Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and Director of the Fritz Bauer Institute.

Before, she served as Professor of Dictatorship, Violence and Genocide Comparative Studies at the University of Vienna and in December 2016 was appointed by Goethe University Frankfurt in December 2016 as Germany's first Professor of Holocaust Studies.

Sybille was a residential fellow of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and is author of several works on the Holocaust, including Auschwitz: A History.

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