Silvia Pin

Conny Kristel Fellow (03/2026)

Silvia Pin is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her doctoral project examines the history of Holocaust refugees in North China and Manchuria, with a particular focus on the aid networks supporting them and on their interaction with the local late-colonial context.

For her doctoral research, Silvia has worked in several archives across Europe and the United States, and her research has been supported by the European Association of Jewish Studies.

As a Conny Kristel Fellow (EHRI-ERIC) at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute and the German Exile Archive, she will investigate the aid networks and informational resources available to Austrian and German Jewish refugees who fled Europe via the Trans-Siberian and Trans-Manchurian railways.

Silvia Pin graduated from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (BA and MA) and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris (MA). Her MA thesis, defended at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2023, was published as Jews in Japan: Presence and Perception. Antisemitism, Philosemitism and International Relations (De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024).