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Anna Koch is a historian specializing in twentieth-century European history, with a particular interest in the histories of displacement, exile, and return. Her book, 'Home Fascism: Italian German Jews and the Holocaust,' investigates the complex relationships that Italian German Jews had with their home countries during the Holocaust. 'Home Fascism' received the 2025 British Irish Association Jewish Studies Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2025 Memory Studies Association Book Award. Prior to joining University College London, she taught European Jewish history at the University of Southampton and the University of Leeds. She has held fellowships at the Centre for Jewish History in New York City, the German Historical Institute in Rome, and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, and the Social Science Research Council. In 2021, she was named a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.