Harry Legg
Visiting Fellow
Harry Legg is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the UK. His thesis examines the lives of Germans of Jewish descent who did not identify as Jewish. In particular, he focuses on how they responded to being classified as ‘Jewish’ by the Nazis, from 1933 to 1945. Using over 400 cases, Legg examines how decades of life outside the Jewish community, often without Jewish friends, drastically altered their experiences after 1933. Legg has published articles in the Journal of Holocaust Research (2022), Journal of Genocide Research (2022), and Contemporary European History (2024). His forthcoming texts will appear in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Journal of Contemporary History (2026). Legg’s research has been funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2022-2026), the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History (2023), and the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Conny Kristel Fellowship (2024). He is a 2025/26 Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, funded by the Claims Conference organization.