Morwenna Blewett

Morwenna Blewett is a British historian whose research focuses on the involvement of paper restorers and bookbinders in aiding the Nazi regime during the Second World War. Her work reveals a Europe-wide program in the 1930s and 1940s where these professionals were recruited by the Nazis to repair and clean historic church and civil records. This made the records legible, enabling the Nazis to identify individuals with Jewish ancestry, contributing directly to the Holocaust. Blewett's research highlights how conservation experts inspected archives to track down people for persecution. Her findings are newsworthy because they shed light on a previously under-examined aspect of the Holocaust, revealing the complicity of a specific professional group in the Nazi's genocidal efforts. This research is significant as it broadens our understanding of the mechanisms and collaborators involved in the Holocaust.