Jael Geis is a registered nurse and a freelance historian. She received her Ph.D. in contemporary history from the Technische Universität Berlin. She has published a book and several articles on Jews of German descent in the British and American zones of Germany 1945–1949. She is currently working on Jews in Germany in the 1950s. Her academic interests include the social-psychological aspects of immediate post-war European Jewish history and the history of medicine.