ZOË WAXMAN is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She was educated at the universities of York, Warwick, and Oxford and was previously lecturer in history at Mansfield College, Oxford and then lecturer and fellow in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on gender, genocide, and the history of ideas. Her first book was Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation (OUP, 2006). Her book Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History (OUP) was published in 2017.

‘Zoë Waxman‎'s Anne Frank is all the more powerful for its unsentimental clarity. A timely reminder of life without human rights.’