Publications

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

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

Institutional Blog Posts

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.

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