Professor Shirli Gilbert, University College, London
Professor Shirli Gilbert is author of Music in the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2005), which examines the role of music in the Nazi ghettos and camps and the insight it offers into victims’ responses. The book was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. It was also the basis for the large-scale educational website Music and the Holocaust, a documentary feature on BBC Radio 3, and concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall and the Hampstead Arts Festival.