Barnabas has published widely on the history of the Holocaust in both academic peer-reviewed journals and edited books, as well as for institutional blogs.
books
- The Life and Career of Otto Komoly (1892-1945) (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem: The Holocaust in Hungary: Selected Papers of the Tauber Fund for Research on the Holocaust in Hungary and Hungarian Jewish History, under contract)
- A Gas Chamber in Hungary: The Kőszeg Massacre (Abingdon: Routledge, under contract)
- Katharina Siebert and Barnabas Balint, Rallying Europe: Intersectional Approaches to Youth and Gender in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- ‘Traces of youth: reconstructing Hungarian women’s lives during the Holocaust’, European Review of History 31.3 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2024.2354680.
- ‘Competing for the Youth: Jewish Scout Identity, Religion and Gender during the Holocaust in France’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 37.3 (Winter 2023), 390–403, https://academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hgs/dcad052/7492419.
- ‘“I am now their father too”: The multi-layered meanings of family letters from the Jewish Maquis in France during the Second World War’, Jewish Culture and History 24.2 (2023), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462169X.2023.2192638.
- ‘Coming of Age During the Holocaust: The Adult Roles and Responsibilities of Young Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau’, The Journal of Holocaust Research 35.1 (2021), 20-40, https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2020.1863637.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
- ‘The Tiyul: Rescuing Jews by Smuggling across the Hungarian-Romanian border’, in John Paul Newman, Ljubinka Škodrić, and Rade Ristanović (eds.), Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1940-1944: Forms and Varieties (Balkan Studies Library, Brill: Leiden, 2023), pp. 265–286, https://brill.com/display/book/9783657790395/BP000020.xml.
- ‘Reflections on ordinary life and identity in Hungarian labour service letters’, Charlie Knight, Sandra Lipner, Clara Dijkstra, and Christine Schmidt (eds.), Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections (London: Bloomsbury, 2025)
Peer Reviewed Journal Special Issues Edited
- Barnabas Balint and Charlie Knight, ‘Transnational Holocaust studies in history and memory’, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (2024), https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2024.2397161.
- Katharina Seibert and Barnabas Balint, ‘Rallying Europe: young women and men searching for a life and a future’, European Review of History 31.3 (2024), 331–348, https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2024.2354676.
Institutional Blog Posts
- ‘Play Review: Here there are blueberries’, British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies Blog (December 2025)
- ‘Knowledge and Organization of Guard Dogs in the Nazi Concentration Camps: The Hundestaffeln’, German Historical Institute Washington History of Knowledge Blog (April 2025).
- ‘Uncovering Local Jewish Histories: Hungarian Jewish Community History Books’, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Document Blog (July 2024).
- ‘Barnabas Balint: “I am now their father too”: the multi-layered meanings of family letters from the Jewish Maquis in France during the second world war (Jewish Culture and History)’, Parkes Institute Blog (April 2023)
- ‘Identifying the author of an anonymous diary from the Holocaust in Hungary’, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Document Blog (March 2023).
- ‘“One gold child’s bracelet”: Traces of Children in Stolen Property Documents from the Holocaust in Hungary’, Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood (November 2022).
- ‘Reflections on the Children & Heritage Colloquium’, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (August 2022).
- ‘A Year in Review – the BAHS Postgraduate Community 2021/22’, British Association for Holocaust Studies (August 2022).
- ‘BAHS Postgraduate Conference 2022’, British Association for Holocaust Studies (June 2022).
- ‘Hidden in the Archive: An Unknown Leaflet from a Jewish Aid Organization in 1948’, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research (May 2022).
- ‘Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series 2022: It falls to us to tell their stories’, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (March 2022).
- ‘From Jewish Refugee to Senior Dean: The Life of Karl Leyser’, Illuminating Magdalen: The Blog of Magdalen College Library (January 2022).
- ‘Digital Tools for Understanding the Holocaust: Visualisations in the EHRI Document Blog’, Digital Holocaust Memory (November 2021).
- ‘“They became my children too”: The Multi-layered meanings of family letters from the Jewish Maquis in France’, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Document Blog (July 2021).
- ‘Concentration Camp Documents and Hungarian Jewish Lives: Prisoner Registration Cards from the Arolsen Archives’, The Institute of Historical Research History Lab Blog (May 2021).
- ‘Children’s Drawings of the Genocide in Darfur’, Yet Again (October 2020)
- ‘Remembering Srebrenica 25 Years On: An Interview with Safet Vukalić’, Yet Again (August 2020)
- ‘Relief Workers in the Aftermath of the Second World War: Two British Heroes of the Holocaust’, British Association of Holocaust Studies Blog (October 2019).
- ‘Recognising the “Anonymous” Resistors: Everyday Heroes in Occupied Hungary’, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Document Blog (October 2018).
- ‘Learning from the Past to Build a Better Future’, Seeking Protection: the Blog of the IHRA (August 2018).
- ‘Words of Resistance: HMDT Youth Champion Board’, HMDT Blog (January 2018).
Book Reviews
- ‘Who will rescue us? The story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust: by Laura Hobson Faure, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2025, xix + 403 pp., £25.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780300269963,’ Jewish Culture and History, 1–3.
- ‘Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Vo. 36: Jewish Childhood in Eastern Europe. Edited by Natalia Aleksiun, François Guesnet and Antony Polonsky. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2024. xv + 483 pp. Cloth £75.00’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 18.3 (2025), 218-283.
- ‘Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking, Edited by Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei, and Annika Wienert, Berlin, Walter De Gruyter, 2025, Vii + 355 Pp., £73.00 (Cloth), ISBN 9783111078144’, Jewish Culture and History (2024).
- ‘Dan Stone, Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press, 2023, 464 pp. ISBN 9780198846598’, Central European University Review of Books (2024).
- ‘Amy Williams and Bill Niven, National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport: Exhibitions, Memorials, and Commemorations. Boydell & Brewer Inc., Rochester, NY, 2023. xii, 272 pp. £105. ISBN 978-1-64014-130-8’, Journal of Jewish Studies 75.1 (2024).
- ‘A Summer of Mass Murder. 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust. George Eisen. Purdue University Press, 2023. xxv + 379 pp. $99.99 (hardcover), $39.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781612497754’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 23.2 (2024).
- ‘The Third Reich’s Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas: by Helen Roche, Oxford University Press, 2021. xx + 524 pp. £98 (hardback)’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2024).
- ‘The Children’s Republic of Gaudiopolis: The History and Memory of a Budapest Children’s Home for Holocaust and War Orphans: by Gergely Kunt, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022. xii + 236 pp., $75.00 / €63.00 / £54.00 (hardback)’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 16.3 (2023), 509-511.
- ‘In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism: by Michael Brenner, Princeton University Press, 2022, 392 pp., £21 (hardback)’, Social History 48.2 (2023).
- ‘Women’s Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation, and Everyday Life. Edited by Mark J. Corwley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson. The Boydell Press, 2021. xx + 224 pp. £75.00.’, History – The Journal of the Historical Association 107/376, (June 2022), 606-607.
- ‘The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt: by Anna Hájková, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 364 pp., £14.95 (hardback)’, Cultural and Social History 19/4 (2022), 503-505.
Obituaries
- ‘Ernest Simon Obituary’, The Guardian (20th March 2023).
- ‘A Tribute to Barbara Winton’, British Association for Holocaust Studies (September 2022).
Other
- ‘Project Description: Intersectional Approaches to Jewish Youth During the Holocaust in Hungary’, European Holocaust Studies V: Childhood during War and Genocide: Agency, Survival, and Representation (2024), 276-282, https://doi.org/10.46500/83535599-013.
- Reviewer – ‘Stolen Children’ page in ‘Who were the victims of the national socialists?’, European Association of History Educators – EUROCLIO (April 2023).
- Teaching Resource – Eli Sassoon and Barnabas Balint, ‘Teenage Victims of Nazi Persecution’, for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, Union of Jewish Students Website (January 2023).
- Interview – ‘Barnabas Balint, Magdalen College Oxford on Innovation and Enterperneurship in Holocaust Memory’, Western Galilee College, Israel (August 2022).
- Public Lecture – ‘Growing Up Jewish During the Holocaust in Hungary’, University of Southern California Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, (April 2022).
- National Campaign – ‘Light the Darkness’ national moment of commemoration for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (January 2022).
- National Campaign – ‘UK Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day’, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (January 2022)
- Chair – ‘Theme Launch for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022’, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (March 2021)
- ‘International Jewish Organizations During the Holocaust: Towards a Transnational History of the Women’s International Zionist Organisation’, The Journal of the Oxford University History Society XII (2020).
- ‘Beyond Antisemitism: Hungarian Ideological and Pragmatic Motivations for the Holocaust’, Midlands Historical Review 2 (2018), https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2516-8568.
