Charlotte Canizo

Charlotte Canizo is a DPhil student in History at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, supervised by Professor Abigail Green and Dr Jenny Carson (Holocaust Educational Trust). She graduated in 2020 from Sciences Po Paris and Sorbonne Université with a double BA in Political Humanities and History. During her undergraduate studies, she spent a year at the University of Washington (USA), where she was a research assistant at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. She has also interned at a Holocaust survivors association in France (the “Union des Déportés d’Auschwitz”) and in French elementary schools. In 2022, she graduated from Sciences Po Paris with a master’s degree in Contemporary History. Her master’s thesis focused on the rescue of Jewish children in France during the Holocaust at the Sèvres children’s home.

Charlotte’s dissertation at Oxford is part of the “Jewish Country Houses” project led by Professor Abigail Green. It focuses on the place of children in British Jewish humanitarianism from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. It seeks to understand the extent to which children have been at the heart of British Jewish humanitarianism over this period, and whether this has always been the case or is rather a recent development. As a Collaborative Doctoral Award student, Charlotte’s research is conducted in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) in London. It is generously co-funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP and the Clarendon Scholarship.