Charlie Knight is a doctoral researcher at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton funded by the Wolfson Foundation (2021-24). Before going to Southampton he earned his BA (Hons) and MA at the University of Exeter. His current positions include Communications Officer for the German History Society and Outreach Fellow at the Parkes Institute. Charlie was previously postgraduate representative for the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies and a content researcher for the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Galleries Regeneration Team.

His current research centres around letter writing during the Holocaust specifically the correspondence between separated members of German-Jewish families, utilising collections primarily in private ownership. Charlie has written, spoken, and published on topics such as the refugee archive, German-Jewish refugee studies, auto-ethnographic approaches to the study of the Holocaust, and international aid efforts during the war. He is co-editor (with Clara Dijkstra, Sandra Lipner, and Christine Schmidt) of the edited collection Holocaust Letters (Bloomsbury, [2025]), and co-editor (with Barnabas Balint) of the special issue ‘Transnational Holocaust Studies in History and Memory’ Holocaust Studies ([2024/5]).

Charlie currently teaches at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at University College London (UCL).