Sarah Grandke is historian, curator and doctoral candidate at the University of Regensburg. The working title of her doctoral thesis is: “From intermediate station to space for action. Life paths, networks and memory(s) of displaced persons in Flossenbürg (1945-1951)”. She is combining her research with stays at the Jewish Museum in Sydney, the Australian National University in Canberra and the ERC project GLORE - Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from the Postwar (1945-1951) at the University of Vienna.

From 2018 to 2023, Sarah Grandke was curator at the Hamburg documentation center “denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof”. From 2016 to 2018, Grandke worked at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and was previously a curator at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism in an exhibition project on the history of the Sinti and Roma. Her studies took her to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Erfurt, Łódź and the Center for Urban History Lviv in Ukraine.

She publishes on displaced persons, the National Socialist persecution of Jews, Sinti and Roma as well as innovative educational and exhibition projects. She also writes in an essayistic and personal manner about research into DP history(ies): https://vakantio.de/mitgeschichteumdiewelt