Rainer Borsdorf

Photo: Christian Daether, Ilmenau (GER).
         Historian (M.A.) and Author

 

  • Master's degree in Modern, Medieval and Art History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • Freelance historian and journalist since 2005; topics: Jewish history, Shoah and Nazi regime, anti-Semitism, East Germany, Thuringia
  • Member of the Association of German Historians (Verband Deutscher Historikerinnen und Historiker e.V.).
  • Regional spokesperson for Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie e.V. 2014–24
  • keeping contact with descendants of Jewish Thuringians and local historians
  • English (fluent), Danish (approved), French (basic knowledge)

 

References
  • State Center for Political Education Thuringia  (Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen), monograph: Jews in Thuringia. From the German Empire to the end of the GDR, Erfurt 2024 (Reading Sample: see below)
  • Association Against Forgetting – For Democracy (Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie e.V.), multi-generational project and brochure: Jewish Neighbors in Ilmenau, Ilmenau 2018.
  • Association Giving faces: Victims of Dictatorship 1945–1989 in Ilmenau (Gesichter geben: Opfer der Diktatur 1945–1989 in Ilmenau e.V.), exhibition: Demokratie - jetzt oder nie! Peaceful Revolution in the Ilm District 1989/90, Ilmenau/Arnstadt 2014.
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church District Arnstadt-Ilmenau (Ev.-luth. Kirchenkreis Arnstadt-Ilmenau), exhibition and brochure: Light and shadow: Ilmenau and St. Jakobus - a piece of contemporary history, Ilmenau 2012. Public relations work.
  • Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation (Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora), editing and image research for the monograph by Dr. Annegret Schüle: Industry and the Holocaust. Topf & Sons - The Oven Builders of Auschwitz, Göttingen 2010.
  • Publisher HistOHRia Erfurt (HistOHRia Verlag), audio guide: Jena and its university. An audio city guide through history, Erfurt 2005.