Peer-Reviewed Publications

Sambells Chelsea and A. Kay, eds. Yura’s War: Diary of a Teenager under Siege in Leningrad. (In progress, 2026).

Sambells, Chelsea, D. Rudrum and H. Randall, eds. Through Our Eyes: Holocaust Survivors’ Experiences from the North of England. (In progress, 2026).

Sambells, Chelsea. The Exceptional Evacuation: Switzerland’s Child Evacuations During the Second World War. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press. (Forthcoming 2026). 

Sambells, Chelsea, Hannah Randall and David Rudrum. “Editing Holocaust Testimonies as an Innovative Pedagogical Method.” In New Approaches to Teaching Holocaust Literature, edited by Erin McGlothin, Cambridge University Press (In progress, 2026).

Sambells, Chelsea. Review of Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing by Alex J. Kay. European History Quarterly 54, no. 4 (October 2024): 735-737. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241287107d

Sambells, Chelsea. “The Catalysts of 1938: European Child Evacuations as Humanitarian Innovation.” In A Transnational History of Forced Migrants in Europe: Unwilling Nomads in the Age of Two World Wars, edited by Bas Willems and Michal Palacz. pp. 119-135. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 10.5040/9781350281110.0018

Sambells, Chelsea. “‘Children are to be regarded as propaganda’: Contradictions of German Occupation Policies in the Child Evacuations to Switzerland 1941-1942.” European History Quarterly, 51, no. 1 (February 2021): 76-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691420985400

Sambells, Chelsea. “Convenient and Conditional Humanitarianism: Evacuating French and French Jewish Children to Switzerland during the Second World War.” Nottingham French Studies 59, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 174-190. Full text here. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2020.0283

Sambells, Chelsea. “Saving Foreign Children from ‘Moral Decay’: Switzerland’s Children’s Homes during the Second World War.” Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth 11, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 5-26. Full text here. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2018.0001

Sambells, Chelsea. “The Plight of Belgian Children: The Allied Interest in the Child Evacuation Scheme, 1942-1945.” In Children and War Past and Present II, edited by Grazi Prontera, Wolfgang Aschauer, John Buckley, Helga Embachler, Albert Lichtblau and Johannes-Dieter Steinert. Solihull: Helion & Co., 2016. See here

Sambells, Chelsea. “Self-Motivated Humanitarianism?: The Study of the Evacuation of Belgian and French Children to Switzerland, 1941-1945.” In Droits des enfants au XXe siècle: Pour une histoire transnationale, edited by Yves Denéchère and David Niget. Rennes: University of Rennes, 2015. See here. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pur.89254

Sambells, Chelsea. “Memories, Identity and Mother Russia: A Study of the Russian-Chechen Conflict.” STREAM Culture/Politics/Technology 2 (2009): 53-59. See here. 10.21810/strm.v2i1.40

Web-based Publications

Sambells, Chelsea and Hannah Randall. “Remembering the Camps.” Holocaust Centre North (9 February 2022).

Sambells, Chelsea and Hannah Randall. “Human Rights: The Legacy of the Holocaust.” Holocaust Centre North (1 December 2021)

Sambells, Chelsea and Hannah Randall. “Nuremberg: The Changing Meanings of a City.” Holocaust Centre North (15 November 2021).

Sambells, Chelsea. “Unsung Heroes of Justice: The Translators and Interpreters of the Nuremberg Trials.” Holocaust Centre North (2 November 2021).

Sambells, Chelsea and Hannah Randall. “The Real Valkyrie: German Resistance in Modern Memory.” Holocaust Centre North (19 July 2021).

Sambells, Chelsea and Hannah Randall. “Travelling Historians: Where Hitler Stood.” Holocaust Centre North (15 June 2021).

Sambells, Chelsea. “Dignity in the Holocaust: Themes of Resistance in Oral History Testimonies.” Wiener Library Online Blog (15 December 2017).

For a summary of all my current research projects, please see here.