Maria Wilke is part of the communication team of the “Wunderbar together” initiative in the Department of Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office. She studied History, International Relations, Sociology and Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Charles University in Prague. From 2011-2017 she has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in the 16 volume source edition “The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933-1945.”