Michaela Raggam-Blesch

Michaela Raggam-Blesch is a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna's Institute for Contemporary History, specializing in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her research focuses on Jewish history, women's and gender history, oral history, and the politics of remembrance.

• Senior Research Fellow, University of Vienna (since 2021)
• Member, 'Microcosms of the Holocaust' research group (Utrecht University)
• Curatorial work: 'Only the Violins Remain' (2018) and 'Last Places Before Deportation' (2016) exhibitions

Her work includes awards like the 2022 Leon Zelman Prize and fellowships from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Marie Jahoda Foundation, and Austrian Academy of Sciences. Key publications address intermarried families' survival strategies, Vienna's deportation camps, and memorial sites of Jewish communities.

Recent research examines intimacy and dependency bonds in intermarried families during Nazi-era Europe. She has held teaching roles at the University of Vienna, Klagenfurt, and Graz, and contributed to academic exhibitions and memorialization projects.