Daniel Lee

Fellow, SCAS.
Reader in Modern History, Queen Mary University of London


Daniel Lee is a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. He
received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2011. After a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Lee was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield before his appointment at Queen Mary University of London
in 2019.

Lee’s first book, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–42 (2014),
explored the coexistence between French Jews and the Vichy regime. His second book, The SS Officer's
Armchair (2020), examined the life of an SS officer from Stuttgart whose personal documents were
discovered inside an armchair. Lee was recently the Principal Investigator on the British Academy project,
“Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia”, as well as the AHRC-DfG project, “Jewish Pimps, 
Prostitutes & Campaigners in a Transnational German & British Context”. 

As a SCAS fellow, Daniel Lee will be working on his third monograph, The Roundup: Marseille, January
1943. Decentring the July 1942 roundup of Jews in Paris and focusing instead on the southern port city of
Marseille offers a new way to understand intersecting forms of violence during the Holocaust. It also exposes
the transnational nature of the Nazis’ Final Solution in a place with which it is seldom associated: the Mediter-
ranean.


This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.