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Rosie Whitehouse is a British historical researcher, journalist and author.

Biography

Whitehouse studied International History at the London School of Economics and took up a career at the BBC World Service.[1]

As a researcher, she has extensively documented the experience of Holocaust survivors in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War.[2][3] She has reported on remembrance efforts and assaults on Holocaust memory in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.[4][5][6][7][8]

Her historical research and profiles of Holocaust Survivors have been published by The Observer, The Jewish Chronicle, BBC News and Tablet magazine.[9][7][5][10] Meanwhile, her writing about British government policy toward victims after the Holocaust and contemporary British antisemitism has appeared in The Independent and Haaretz.[11][12]

She has also participated in raising awareness of the Rwandan genocide as the publisher of survivor's testimonies.[13][14]

Whitehouse is married to the journalist Tim Judah, and spent five years in the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars with her family, which she documented in her memoir Are We There Yet.[15] Her writing engages with the topics of war trauma and support for post-conflict victims.[16][17] She lives in West London with her husband.[18] The couple have five children, one of whom is the journalist Ben Judah.[19][13]

Selected works

  • South of France (Take the Kids). Cadogan, 2003
  • Are We There Yet. Reportage Press, 2007
  • Paris for families Dorling Kindersley, 2011
  • The People On The Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust, 2021

See also

References

  1. ^ "OUR TEAM". The Judah Edition. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  2. ^ "The law change is welcome and it's time for damage limitation". Retrieved 7 August 2018 – via PressReader.
  3. ^ "THE PEOPLE ON THE BEACH". The Judah Edition. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Thieves dig up mass graves in search for gold". Retrieved 7 August 2018 – via PressReader.
  5. ^ a b Whitehouse, Rosie (21 April 2018). "The monks, the Dachau survivors and the concert that heralded freedom". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  6. ^ Whitehouse, Rosie (24 June 2018). "The first, forgotten Nazi death camp in Poland". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  7. ^ a b Whitehouse, Rosie (3 June 2018). "Hidden in an attic and secret kept for decades". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  8. ^ Judah, Ben; Whitehouse, Rosie (18 April 2017). "The forgotten hero of the hardest Passover". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Italy Seeks to Remember Sheltering Holocaust Survivors and Aiding Aliyah Bet – Tablet Magazine". Tablet. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  10. ^ "The 'Belsen boys' who moved to Ascot". BBC News. 6 May 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  11. ^ "Rosie Whitehouse". haaretz.com. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Rosie Whitehouse". The Independent. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  13. ^ a b "15th Anniversary Commemoration - Survivors Fund". Survivors Fund. 6 April 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Reportage Press - Survivors Fund". Survivors Fund. 10 November 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  15. ^ ESI, European Stability Initiative - (7 August 2018). "European Stability Initiative - ESI". www.esiweb.org. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  16. ^ Whitehouse, Rosie (11 June 2007). "Rosie Whitehouse on the effect TV coverage has on journalists reporting from war zones". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Europe fails child refugees". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  18. ^ "Rosie Whitehouse | Bradt Travel Guides". www.bradtguides.com. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
  19. ^ Judah, Ben (18 June 2013). Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300181210.
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