Rachel Deblinger

Rachel Deblinger is the author of Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews learned about the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2025). Her research focuses on Holocaust memory in America, media technology, and the intersection of philanthropy and representation. She has a PhD from UCLA, where she is also a member of the UCLA Holocaust Research Lab. She continues to write and teach about digital archives and Holocaust memory.

Deblinger is also the Director of the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at the UCLA Library, a granting program that funds the digitization and preservation of at-risk cultural heritage materials from around the world. MEAP grants facilitate archival documentation and open access to diverse global collections.