Charlotte Schallié

Bio

Charlotte Schallié is a Professor of Germanic Studies. She is the project lead and co-director, together with Andrea Webb (UBC), of a 7-year SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant entitled “Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives”. 

Through her SSHRC-funded Partnership Development Grant project (2019-2022), Charlotte Schallié led an international collaboration to center the expertise and experiences of Holocaust survivors as witnesses, human rights activists, and educators. As part of this work, Dr. Schallié edited the multi-award winning But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (Toronto: New Jewish Press, 2022). The German edition is also available through the German Federal Agency for Civic Education facilitating the book’s use for classroom teaching across Germany. The accompanying exhibition—co-curated by Jakob Hoffmann and Barbara Yelin—was on display at the Stadtmuseum Erlangen, schauraum comic + cartoon in Dortmund, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, the Ravensbrück Memorial, Erika Fuchs Haus (Schwarzenbach a.d. Saale), and the Bergen-Belsen Memorial.

But I Live is the recipient of the 2022 Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Category: Biography/Memoir), the 2023 Western Canada Jewish Book Award (Kahn Family Foundation Prize for Holocaust category), the 2023 PROSE Award for Biography/Autobiography, and the 2023 PROSE Award for Nonfiction Graphic Novels. It also has been shortlisted for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (Best Realty-Based Work).

Most recently, Charlotte Schallié co-edited, with Alexander Korb, Barbara Yelin’s award-winning graphic novel Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung (Berlin: Reprodukt, 2023). The book has been translated into French, Spanish and English. Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung is the 2024 recipient of the Gustav-Heinemann-Peace Price for children’s and young adult literature.

Schallié’s public-facing research on Carl Lutz has been featured on CBC’s The National, and on BBC World News.

Courses

• GMST 482/GMST 582: Special Topics in Holocaust Studies: Visual Culture and the Holocaust
• GMST 102: Beginning German II

Selected Publications

Book publications:

Schallié, Charlotte, editor. Gilad Seliktar (author): Palm Springs/Berlin. The Klaus Zwilsky Story [working title]. New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

German-language edition with C.H. Beck; French-language edition with Éditions çà et là.

Üngör, Uğur Ü., and Charlotte Schallié, co-editors. Tobi Dahmen (author) with Akram al Saud. Al-Faẓia’ – The Horror: Surviving Assad’s Prisons. New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

German-language edition with Carlsen Verlag.

Rutar, Sabine, Franziska Zaugg, and Charlotte Schallié, co-editors. Anneli Furmark (author) with Almasa Salihovic. As Long As We Are Together [working title]. New Jewish Press/University of Toronto press, forthcoming.

German-language edition with Avant Verlag.

Celinscak, Mark, and Charlotte Schallié, co-editors. Miriam Libicki (author) with Rose Lipszyc. Two Roses. With a preface by Timothy Snyder. New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.

Schallié, Charlotte, and Alexander Korb, co-editors. Barbara Yelin (author): Emmie Arbel: Die Farbe der Erinnerung [Emmie Arbel: The Colour of Memory]. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/German Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2025 [originally published by Reprodukt in 2023]. 

Schallié, Charlotte, and Alexander Korb, co-editors. Barbara Yelin (author): Emmie Arbel. El color de los recuerdos [Spanish-language edition of Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung]. Translated by Julia C. Gómez, Garbuix Books, 2025. 

Schallié, Charlotte, and Alexander Korb, co-editors. Barbara Yelin (author): Emmie Arbel: The Colour of Memory [English-language edition of Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung]. Translated by Helge Dascher, Reprodukt, 2024. 

Schallié, Charlotte, and Alexander Korb, co-editors. Barbara Yelin (author): Emmie Arbel: La couleur du souvenir [French-language edition of Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung]. Translated by Thierry Groensteen and Olivier Mannoni, Actes Sud, 2024.

Charlotte Schallié, editor. “But I Live.” Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press, 2024. Paperback edition.

Schallié, Charlotte, editor. Aber ich Lebe. Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/German Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2023.

Schallié, Charlotte, editor. Aber ich Lebe. Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. German- language edition of “But I Live”: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Translated by Rita Seuss, C.H. Beck, 2022. 

Other publications: 

Schallié, Charlotte. “Relational Memory, Shared Authority and Reciprocity in the Making of Barbara Yelin’s Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.” Multidirektionales Erinnern im Comic, edited by Stefan Börnchen and Emily A. Dreyfus, Brill/Fink, forthcoming.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Being in Relationship - A Case Study for Pursuing Creative Practice as Research with Holocaust Survivors." Antisemitismusprävention durch visuelle Medien, edited by Marco T. Bosshard, Ursula Henningfeld and Iulia-Karin Patrut, Wochenschau Verlag, forthcoming.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Slowing Down and Taking Time. A Proposal for Integrating Care Ethics into Visual Storytelling Research and Practice.” Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 61, no. 2, 2025, pp. 102-110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.61.2.5.

Schallié, Charlotte. “On the Making of But I Live: A Conversation between Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin.” German Graphic Narratives and Trauma, edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Maureen Burdock, Camden House, 2025, pp. 119-139.

Schallié, Charlotte. “The Graphic Novel as Testimony. An Interview with Barbara Yelin and Charlotte Schallié.” Interview by Matthias Lukkes. EuroClio. European Association of History Educators, 8 July 2024. Originally published in Dutch on Platform WO2. 

Schallié, Charlotte. “’It Takes a Village’ – New Pedagogical Approaches to Collaborative Inquiries with Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.” Social Justice Pedagogies, edited by Katrina Sark, University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 60-73.

Louwagie, Fransiska, Caroline Sharples, Charlotte Schallié and Andrea Webb. “Testifying to Genocide: A Creative and Critical Use of Memory and Testimony in Holocaust Education in the UK and Canada.” The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture, edited by Sara Jones and Roger Woods, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 405-427.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Immer wenn er gestorben war, kam er wieder zurück.“ Jüdische Lebenswelten und Erinnerungsräume in Charles Lewinskys Melnitz.“ Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, vol. 9, 2022, pp. 127-146. DOI: 10.25353/ubtr-izfk-cf05-666b.

Nijdam Elizabeth, and Charlotte Schallié, guest editors. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies – Special Double Issue on German Comics and Graphic Literature, vol. 56, no. 3 & vol. 56, no. 4, 2020. 215 pp.

Schallié, Charlotte, and Agnes Hirschi. “Doch die Gesetze des Lebens sind nun mal stärker als menschliche Paragraphen.” Unter Schweizer Schutz. Die Rettungsaktion von Carl Lutz während des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Budapest.Zeitzeugen berichten, edited by Agnes Hirschi and Charlotte Schallié, Limmat Verlag, 2020, pp. 7-25.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Post-Holocaust Mnemonic Objects and Material Traces in Arnon Goldfinger’s The Flat (הדירה).” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 25, 2019, pp. 274-292. DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2019.1637498.

Meune, Manuel, Katrin Mutz, and Charlotte Schallié, co-editors. Stratégies d’écriture en Suisse et aux Antilles De la diglossie affichée aux traces de langues - Revue transatlantique d’études suisses, no. 8/9, 2018/19. 318 pp. 

Selected presentations/talks

Schallié, Charlotte. “Beyond the Genre of Eyewitness Testimony: Memory Work and Arts-Based Co-Creation with Holocaust Survivors.” W. Michael Blumenthal Academy/Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany, 11 July 2025. Invited workshop presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Relational Memory, Shared Authority and Reciprocity in the Making of Barbara Yelin’s Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory.” Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, 24 February 2025. Roz and Ralph Halbert Lecture.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Relational Ethics and Shared Authority in the Making of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Creative Storytelling and Oral History Workshop Series, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 13 February 2025. Invited workshop presentation (online).

Schallié, Charlotte. “Remembering the Holocaust: 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.” Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC, 12 February 2025. Invited guest talk.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Being in Relationship - A Case Study for Pursuing Creative Practice as Research with Holocaust Survivors.” Learning about the Shoah Through Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling – Transnationale Erinnerung in der graphischen Literatur. Universität Siegen/University of Siegen, Germany, 21 January 2025. Invited presentation (online).

Schallié, Charlotte. “Good Trouble! Relational Memory, Shared Authority and Reciprocity in the Making of Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory (2023).” Lessons and Legacies Conference. Claremont McKenna College and University of Southern California, Claremont and Los Angeles, CA, 14-17 November 2024. Conference presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Workshop on NS Camps and Killing Sites. Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 29 October 2024. Invited public presentation (online).

Schallié, Charlotte. “Survivor-Centred Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.” Projekttagung. Antisemitismus im europäischen Schulunterricht (AIES). Europe Universität Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany, 23 May 2024. Keynote presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Developing an Ethics of Care for Arts-based Research Collaborations with Survivors of Genocide and Mass Atrocity.” Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. A Cooperate Arts-based Research Incubator. Zurich University of the Arts/Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 July 2024. Invited presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Visual Storytelling and Holocaust Witnessing in But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Witness: Mediating Holocaust Testimony in the Arts. The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) and the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (RWI), Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, USA, 17-19 April 2024. Invited presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches. Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas, TX. USA, 2 March 2024. Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture.

Schallié, Charlotte. “‘But I Live’: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Survivor Centred Visual Storytelling.” Graphic Novels und Animationsfilme über die Shoah. Zwischen Zeugenschaft und pädagogischer Vermittlung. Overseas Education and Training Department; International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, 13 November 2023. Invited lecture (online).

Schallié, Charlotte. “Trauma-informed Visual Storytelling in Barbara Yelin’s Memory Work with Emmie Arbel.” Conference on “Konkurrenz oder Konvergenz? Multidirektionales Erinnern an Holocaust und Kolonialismus im Comic. In cooperation with Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung and the Deutschen Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken MERKUR, Gut Siggen, Germany, 9-13 October 2023. Keynote presentation.

Schallié, Charlotte. “But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Arts Night. German Studies Association Annual Conference. Montréal, 5 October 2023.

Yelin, Barbara, and Charlotte Schallié, “Witnessing – Remembering – Drawing. A Conversation about But I Live and Drawing Holocaust Memories.” Moderated by Charlotte Lehr. Drawing the Past in Comics International Conference. NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich, Germany,  16 June 2023.

Schallié, Charlotte, and Andrea Webb. "Centering Graphic Narratives and Arts-Based Co-creation in Holocaust and Human Rights Education." The International Comic Arts Forum. Annual Conference. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 20 April 2023.

Schallié, Charlotte. “Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.” Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, November 2022.

Schallié, Charlotte, and Andrea Webb. “Graphic Narratives & Visual Storytelling in Holocaust and Human Rights Education.” Teaching Comics Conference. Valencia, Spain, 19 October 2022. Online.

Schallié, Charlotte. “I don’t remember.” Trauma-informed Storytelling in Barbara Yelin’s But I Live.” Panel on Graphic Narratives and Trauma. 20^th and 21^st Century German Forum. MLA Conference. Washington DC, USA, January 2022. Online.

Current research projects/ information

Charlotte Schallié is the project lead and co-director of “Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives”, an international and interdisciplinary research project, which is funded by a 7-year SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5 mio). In close dialogue and exchange across five research clusters (Holocaust; Iraq/Syria; Rwanda; TurtleIsland; Yugoslav Wars), the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives research team co develops arts-based testimony gathering practices that are interconnected yet respect the singular cultural and historical contexts of each research site. The project’s foremost commitment is to the participating survivors who hold unique knowledge not only of the mass atrocity itself, but also of the process of sharing their story.

In 2025, Charlotte Schallié and her team have been awarded Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program National Holocaust Remembrance Program funding ($129,769) from Heritage Canada for their project, Developing Trauma-Informed Teaching Resources and Outreach Activities for Arts-Based Survivor Testimonies. Alongside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and other partners, this project will develop open-access educational resources, learning activities, and an art exhibition to accompany two non-fiction graphic novels by award-winning artist Miriam Libicki: A Kind of Resistance (published in the anthology But I Live, New Jewish Press, 2022) and Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2026). The project will create innovative evidence-based educational tools to help Canadian high school teachers apply a human rights framework and integrate Holocaust education into the secondary school curriculum.