Konrad Kwiet

Konrad Kwiet (born May 29, 1941) is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is currently Pratt Foundation Professor at the University of Sydney and Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum. He has worked in universities, museums and research centres around the world, including Heidelberg, Israel, Washington, D.C., Oxford and Berlin.

Career Konrad Kwiet was born in Swinemünde in 1941 and educated in Amsterdam and Berlin. He studied history at Technische Universität Berlin, completing his PhD on Nazi policy in the Netherlands. Kwiet emigrated to Australia in 1976 to take up a lecturing position at the University of New South Wales. He retired as emeritus professor from Macquarie University in 2000 and is currently Pratt Foundation Professor for Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at the University of Sydney.

In 2022, Kwiet was put in charge of an investigation into the Nazi connections of Lithuanian-Australian art collector Bob Sredersas. Kwiet has identified himself in a USC Shoah Foundation testimony as a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

Books Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust (2004, together with J Matthaeus) Einsatz im Reichkommissariat Ostland (1998, together with W Benz and J Matthaeus) Selbstbehauptung und Widerstand (1984, together with H Eschwege) Reichskommissariat Niederlande (1968) Ausbildungsziel Judenmord? (2003, together with J. Matthaueus, J. Foerster and R. Breitman)