Lisa Peschel has been researching theatrical performance in the Terezin/Theresienstadt ghetto since 1998. She has lectured, published, and developed performances on the cultural life of Terezin in the US and in Europe, most recently as part of the £1.8 million AHRC-funded project Performing the Jewish Archive. Publications include Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto and Performing (for) Survival: Theatre, Crisis, Extremity.