Humboldt University, Berlin
Sanela Schmid earned her PhD in 2012 from the University of Bern with thesis „German and Italian occupation in the Independent State of Croatia 1941‒1943/45“. From 2012 to 2016 she worked on the Volume 14 „Occupied South-eastern Europe and Italy“ as part of the edition „The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945“. She is currently organizing a scientific network based at the Humboldt-University (Department of German history in the 20th century) on the subject „The plunder of Jewish property in Yugoslavia from 1940 to 1945“. She authored numerous publications related to the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Seeking traces of Serb civil forced labourers in Nuremberg
At the Symposium in Belgrade, Sanela Schmid presented her research on Serbian civilians who were exploited as forced labourers in Germany, especially Nuremberg, during the Second World War. The author presented archive records of 153 persons registered from Serbia who were exploited as forced labourers in Nuremberg.