Eleni Kouki

Eleni Kouki is a historian and researcher at the Jewish Museum of Greece (JMG). She is responsible for the museum’s educational seminars and coordinates the annual educational field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial for high school students.

She studied history at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina. In 2016, she completed her doctoral thesis at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher on several research programs concerning the 1940s and post-war Greece. Over the past three years, she has conducted 45 interviews with Greek Jews to enrich the JMG’s Oral History Archive, for which she is responsible.

Throughout her career, Eleni has been deeply committed to bridging academic research with public education, making history accessible and meaningful to younger generations. She is passionate about collaborative work and interdisciplinary dialogue, and she welcomes opportunities to share her expertise with educators, students, and fellow researchers alike.