Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester

Bogdanow Activities

Student travel bursaries

As part of her bequest to the University of Manchester, Prof. Fanny Bogdanow funded an annual lecture on the Holocaust and a number of student travel bursaries for educational visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year the Centre for Jewish Studies can allocate up to 2 awards of £400 each (based on an estimated cost of £230 for flights and £115 for hotel/tour, plus £55 contribution for food/other expenses). The expectation is that the visit would take place during the period 1 January - 30 June 2020. The student would make all of the arrangements for the trip themselves and claim back their expenses after the trip.

Application: Please email Laura.Mitchell@manchester.ac.uk and justify in a couple of sentences your interest in the subject, and whether you are currently registered for a relevant course unit (depending upon demand, priority will be given to students with relevant dissertation topics or enrolled on relevant course units, such as The 'Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory', or 'Holocaust Theology', or 'Screening the Holocaust'). Please also confirm that you understand that you must provide receipts for all costs/expenses that will be reclaimed, and that you are prepared to write a 500 word report for publication. Deadline for application: 22 November 2019, with an expectation of notification to successful applicants by 5 December 2019. Eligibility: Any undergraduate, post-graduate, or research student in SALC.

2020

Erica Hall, MA History, visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, January 2020

Alexandra Winfield, BA German Studies, visited Auschwitz and Birkenau, February 2020

2019

Eleanor Davies, BA German Studies, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, June 2019 (pdf)

Sassy Holmes, BA Drama, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, May 2019 (pdf)

Joseph Lawlor, BA (Hons) History, on his visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, April 2019 (pdf)

Molly Callon, BA (Hons) History, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, March 2019 (pdf)

Abigail Elderfield, BA (Hons) Theological Studies in Philosophy and Ethics, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, October 2018 (pdf)

2018

Harriet Fleming, BA Hons Religion and Theology, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, April 2018 (pdf)

Ellie Thompson, BA Hons History, on her visit to Dachau, March 2018 (pdf)

Madeleine Foster, BA Hons History and French, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, March 2018 (pdf)

James Huyton, MA, History, on his visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, January 2018 (pdf)

Adi Bharat, PhD, French Studies, visited Auschwitz in June 2018.

2017

Ellie Stenson, BA Hons English Literature, on her visit to Krakow and Auschwitz, Jan 2017 (pdf)

Caitlin Touhey, BA Hons History, on her visit to Krakow and Auschwitz, April 2017 (pdf)

Amy Wisenfeld, MA Peace and Conflict Studies, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, May 2017 (pdf)

Zoe Van Schoor, MA, Humanitarianism and Conflict Response, on her visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, May 2017 (pdf)

Matthew Quallen, MA, History, on his visit to Dachau, May 2017 (pdf)

Barney Weston, BA Hons History and American Studies, reported for BBC Radio Manchester on his visit to Auschwitz and Birkenau, listen again

Lawrence Rabone, BA Hons French and Hebrew, visited Auschwitz in June 2017.

Daisy Barker, BA Hons Religions and Theology, visited Auschwitz in April 2017.

Fanny Bogdanow

The student travel bursaries and the annual public lecture series have been made possible as a result of the generous bequest to the University by Fanni Bogdanow (1927-2013), a former Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Manchester and a child refugee on the Kindertransporte.

Fanni Bogdanow, PhD graduation 1957

"Fanni Bogdanow was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. When she was 11, in 1939 and just in time, her parents loaded her on to a Kindertransport train bound for Britain. She was taken in by a Quaker family in Manchester to whom she remained very grateful. In 1945, she won a scholarship to study French at Manchester University; she was to stay at Manchester, as undergraduate, postgraduate, lecturer, reader and professor, for the rest of her life. Her parents, astonishingly, survived between them Dachau, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; to Fanni's intense joy, her mother later joined her in Manchester..." [More from The Guardian]

Fanni Bogdanow's full life story interview was conducted in April 2002 by one of the Centre's former PhD students, Ros Livshin, and was archived at the Oral Testimony Archive of the Manchester Jewish Museum, a collection compiled under the supervison of the Centre's Bill Williams.