Welcome Dorien Styven, Fortunoff Fellow

Please join us in welcoming Dorien Styven, as a Fortunoff Fellow, thanks to funding from the Claims Conference.

Styven obtained a master’s degree in History at the KULeuven and an advanced Master in Archival Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Ms. Styven is affiliated with Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Research Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights in Mechelen, Belgium, since 2010. As of 2019 she manages all aspects of archival curation as well as the Give Them a Face commemoration project. Ms. Styven represents Kazerne Dossin within the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and the Archive and Contemporary Records board of the Flemish Association for Library, Archive and Documentation (VVBAD), and co-chairs the Working Group on Sustainable Publishing of Metadata within the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). Her research focuses on hiding in Belgium and on the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Holocaust remembrance.

As Fortunoff Fellow, Styven will produce an annotated critical edition of a testimony for our Critical Edition Series as part of our Claims Conference Grant Unlocking Survivor Testimony: A Program to Produce Critical Annotated Editions of Non-English Holocaust Testimonies.