Gaëlle Fisher

Biographic Data

ID5713864
NAMEGaëlle Fisher
GIVEN NAMESGaëlle
FAMILY NAMEFisher
SIGNATUREFISHER G
AFFILIATIONSLeibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
ORCID0000-0001-7897-8867
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Uncertainty in Holocaust diaries

    Open AccessGaëlle FisherARTICLEHolocaust Studies2026References: 3

    This article examines two Holocaust diaries – Emil Dorian’s Romanian diary and Hélène Berr’s Journal – from the perspective of uncertainty. It explores how political, affective, and cognitive instability shaped both writers’ entries and argues that uncertainty was not merely a backdrop but a structuring element and generative force. As such, it influenced the perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and actions of Jews across Europe during this period an…

  • The 16-Volume Document Collection Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945

    Open AccessGaëlle FisherARTICLECentral European History2025

  • The Cehs Presidential Roundtable. Volksdeutsche Beyond German History

    Open AccessDoris Bergen, Benjamin Bryce et al.ARTICLECentral European History2025

  • Resettlers and Survivors

    Open AccessGaëlle FisherBOOKResettlers and Survivors2022

    Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and s…

  • Geschichtsschreibung und Rechtsprechung

    Gaëlle FisherARTICLEVierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschicht…2022

    Die Entschädigung hunderttausender Überlebender des Holocaust durch die Bundesrepublik Deutschland war ein präzedenzloser, komplexer und auch umstrittener juristischer Prozess. In den frühen 1950er Jahren entwickelte sich beispielsweise die Frage nach der Verantwortung für die Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden im rumänischen Machtbereich während des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu einem bedeutenden Streitpunkt zwischen Überlebenden, ihren Vertretern und d…

  • A Nazi Rescuer? Fritz Schellhorn and the Contested Memory of the Holocaust in Romania

    Open AccessGaëlle FisherARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2022

    This study addresses the role of Fritz Schellhorn, the German consul in Cernăuţi (Czernowitz), Romania before and during World War II. Recently Schellhorn has been presented as a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust. Based largely on Schellhorn’s papers in the German Foreign Office Archives, some have argued that it was not, as previously believed, the wartime mayor and Righteous Among the Nations Traian Popovici, but Schellhorn, who prevented th…

  • Resettlers and Survivors

    Gaëlle FisherBOOKResettlers and Survivors2020

    Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and s…

  • Resettlers and Survivors

    Gaëlle FisherBOOKResettlers and Survivors2020

  • The Holocaust in the Borderlands

    Gaëlle Fisher, Caroline MezgerEDITORBOOKThe Holocaust in the Borderlands2019

  • Bukovina

    Open AccessGaëlle Fisher, Maren RögerARTICLEEast European Politics and…2018Cited by: 2

    This article is part of the special cluster titled Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War: (Re)shaping and (re)thinking a region after genocide and ‘ethnic unmixing’, guest edited by Gaëlle Fisher and Maren Röger. This introductory essay provides an overview of the historiography of the borderland region of Bukovina after 1945 and 1989–1991. Presenting the approaches adopted in different national contexts after the end of the Second …

  • Looking Forwards through the Past

    Open AccessGaëlle FisherARTICLEEast European Politics and…2018Cited by: 1

    This article is part of the special cluster titled Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War: (Re)shaping and (re)thinking a region after genocide and ‘ethnic unmixing’, guest edited by Gaëlle Fisher and Maren Röger. Over the course of the 1990s, the region of Bukovina, once the easternmost province of the Austrian half of the Habsburg Empire, gained unprecedented visibility abroad. This was the case in German-language space in particul…

  • Heimat Heimstättensiedlung

    Gaëlle FisherARTICLEGerman History2017Cited by: 1

    This article explores the experiences of ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe as they rebuilt their lives and their homes in West Germany after the Second World War. It concentrates on the case of the Heimstättensiedlung, a residential area of a few thousand pesople located near Darmstadt, in the region of Hesse. Built as a settlement for the unemployed in the aftermath of the Great Depression, after the war the Heimstättensiedlung welc…