The Lauder Fellowship - World Jewish Congress
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Hanna Veiler was born into a Jewish family in Belarus in 1998 and grew up in a small town in southern Germany from 2005. Since her youth, she has been concerned with the topics of complex identity, migration and memory culture. After completing a voluntary service in Israel in 2017, she began studying art history and became involved in Jewish student activism. Today, Hanna is the President of the Jewish Student Union of Germany, a trainer in the Anti-Defamation League’s Words to Action program and works as a political educator and publicist.