What happened to Holocaust-education in Iceland?
The Jewish community in Iceland is both young and very small. Yet the island at the edge of Europe has a rich history of antisemitism....
Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson
Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson holds a PhD in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Aarhus, Denmark (1992). He worked as an independent archaeologist (1986–1993) and as a researcher, archaeologist, and curator at the National Museum of Iceland (1993–1997). He later shifted his focus to historical research and served as a senior researcher at the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2000–2002). He has conducted research on the expulsion of Jewish refugees from Denmark and was, for a time, editor-in-chief of the Danish journal RAMBAM. He has also worked on research projects for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem.
Articles by Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson