Mr Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo

About

Mr Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His doctoral thesis explores the humanitarian work of international relief organizations with Jewish refugees in Spain and Portugal during the Holocaust. He has previously been the Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), as well as Research Intern at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Mr Correa has also been guest lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London; at the University of Minnesota, and at the Association of Holocaust Organization’s 2016 Winter Seminar.

Teaching

Mr Martin-Arroyo teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY116: International History since 1890

Publications

• Co-authored with Prof. Alejandro Baer, ‘Spain and the Holocaust: contested past, contested present’, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2017).
• ‘Franco, Savior of the Jews? Tracing the Genealogy of the Myth and Assessing its Persistence in recent Historiography’, in Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XIII (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2018).
• ‘Publicity, Propaganda, and Holocaust Rescue Myths in Spain’, in Gina Herrmann and Sara Brenneis (eds.), Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History and Representation (forthcoming 2017).
• ‘Conference Review: ‘The Refugee Crisis: Historical Perspectives form Europe and North America, 1945-2000’ Symposium at the German Historical Institute’, Revista de Historia Autónoma 9 (Madrid: forthcoming 2016).
• Co-authored with Prof. Alejandro Baer, ‘The Politics of Holocaust Rescue Myths in Spain: from Francoist Legend to the Righteous Diplomats’, in International Holocaust Research Alliance (ed.), Bystanders, Rescuers or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah (Berlin: Metropol-Verlag, 2016), 205-216.
• ‘La España Franquista y el Mito de la Salvación de los Judíos durante el Holocausto, 1940-1945’, Ubi Sunt? Revista de Historia 28 (2013), 81-91.

Conference Papers

• El paso de los Refugiados Sefardíes a través de la Península Ibérica y su traspaso a Portugal o al Norte de África, Maision d’Izieu: Séminaire Sépharades (Sefarad : la présence juive dans l’Espagne médiévale et contemporaine, Madrid, 22 April 2017)
• The Spanish Paradox: was Spain a Passive Accomplice or ‘Saviour’ during the Holocaust?, Guest lecture, USHMM Holocaust Survivors’ Monthly Meeting (Washington DC, 19 April 2016).
• ‘Unwilling Tourists’: the World War Two Jewish Refugee Crisis reconsidered, Guest lecture, State of Formation (Washington DC, 21 March 2016).
• The Spanish Paradox: was Spain a Passive Accomplice or ‘Saviour’ during the Holocaust?, Guest lecture, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis MN, 18 February 2016).
• The Spanish Paradox: Spain as a Passive Accomplice or ‘Saviour’ to the Holocaust, Guest lecture, American Holocaust Organization’s Winter Seminar (Washington DC, 11 January 2016).
• The deportations of Europe’s Jewish population and General Franco’s ambiguous role, Guest lecture, Royal Holloway (London, 20 January 2015).
• ‘Franco, Savior of the Jews’? Tracing the Genealogy of the Myth and Assessing its Persistence in recent Historiography, Panel presentation, Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XIII’ (Boca Raton FL, 1 November 2014).

Awards & Honours

• Fellowship, Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (Evanston IL, 2016).
• Diane and Howard Wohl Research Fellowship, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC, 2015).
• Four-year PhD Studentship, The London School of Economics (2014).
• Four-year PhD Studentship (declined), The European University Institute (Italy: Firenze, 2014).
• Partial funding, Program for Students Abroad, Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York) and Auschwitz Jewish Center (Poland: Oświęcim, 2014).
• Fellowship for Postgraduate Studies in Europe, ‘La Caixa’ Obra Social (Barcelona, 2013).
• Best Master Thesis Award, College of Europe (Warsaw, 2013).
• Full Scholarship for History Graduates, European Parliament and Prof. Bronisław Geremek European Civilisation Chair, College of Europe (Warsaw, 2012).
• Erasmus exchange scholarship, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, 2010).
• Premio Extraordinario de Bachillerato, Spain’s Middle Education national excellency award (2007).