Synne Corell is a historian with a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo. She is employed as a researcher at the Norwegian Holocaust Center, and her research is focuses on the Holocaust in Norway.
Corell has previously worked on the occupation of Norway during World War II and has studied both historiography and memory culture related to the war years, from the post-war period up to the present day. Her Ph.D. dissertation, "Krigens ettertid. Okkupasjonshistorien i norske historiebøke" (The Aftermath of War: The History of Occupation in Norwegian History Books) was published as a book in 2011.
In 2021, Corell published the book "Likvidasjonen. Historien om holocaust i Norge og jakten på jødenes eiendom" (The Liquidation: The History of the Holocaust in Norway and the Search for Jewish Property). The book is based on the two liquidation processes that the Holocaust consisted of: the economic and the physical. The economic liquidation involved the confiscation of all Jewish-owned property by the occupying regime. The assets were to be converted into cash, which would then accrue to the state. The physical liquidation meant the arrest, deportation, and murder of the Jewish population in Norway. "The Liquidation" follows the people who planned, participated in, and executed the atrocities against Jews in Norway, detailing their actions. It also closely examines the families and individuals who were victims of these actions. The book demonstrates how the liquidation was a meticulously planned operation that unfolded on many levels and locations simultaneously and how it involved large parts of Norwegian society: from public institutions, banks, and business companies to auction customers, neighbors, and collaborators.