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Dr. Lukas Meissel is a historian and post doc research fellow at The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a post-doctoral grant from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris. His post-doc project is called Photographic Testimonies. An Integrated Visual History of Survival and Resistance. He wrote his PhD thesis Beyond the Perpetrators’ Gaze. An Integrated Visual History of Nazi Concentration Camps at the University of Haifa, and earned BA and MA degrees in history and contemporary history at the University of Vienna, Austria. Prior to his studies in Israel, Lukas worked in the Jewish Community of Vienna and in various Holocaust studies and education projects (e.g. deputy chairperson Verein GEDENKDIENST, educator and guide Mauthausen Committee Austria). His research, lectures and teaching focus on Holocaust and Genocide studies/education, visual history, US-Israeli-Austrian relations, and antisemitism. He has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals, the award-winning monograph Mauthausen im Bild (Vienna: edition Mauthausen, 2019) about perpetrator photography in the Mauthausen concentration camp and edited volumes about Holocaust studies and education. Lukas received fellowships and grants in Israel, the USA, Germany, Austria and France; his PhD thesis was awarded the Robert Wistrich Prize 2024, the Herbert Steiner Prize 2024 and the Theodor Körner Prize 2021.