Benjamin Geissert

As a Senior Advisor at the Norwegian Holocaust Center, I work on tasks related to projects, dissemination, and international collaboration and networks. I am the project manager for the Center's work on a new Holocaust exhibition. Additionally, I am a member of the Norwegian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and will lead the organization's Education Working Group in 2025.

I have worked as an educator at the HL Center since 2015 and was the head of the education department from 2018 to 2024. I also worked as a project manager for the process concerning the Holocaust Center's extension, MINO, which opened in 2021.

I have many years of experience in dissemination in museums, including the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, the Hygiene Museum Dresden, and the DDR Museum Berlin. In Norway, I have also worked as an advisor at the Norwegian Resistance Museum.

I have a background in history, political science, and literature with a master's degree from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. My areas of expertise are the history of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. As a political scientist, I have specifically worked with research on totalitarianism and political theories.