Steve (Gunnar S. Paulsson) was educated in England and Canada. After graduating in Psychology, he worked for 23 years in the computer industry before returning to academia in 1989. He earned an M.A. in Modern History from the University of Toronto in 1992 and a D.Phil. from Oxford in 1998. While still a doctoral student, he taught for four years and served as the director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester, then as the senior historian of the Holocaust Exhibition project at the Imperial War Museum, London. He subsequently held a research fellowship at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and has taught at the University of Toronto and at Viadrina University in Germany.Steve's doctoral dissertation won the 1998 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, for an outstanding unpublished manuscript in 20th-century history. Reworked and published in 2003 as Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, it went on to win the 2004 biennial Polish Studies Association Prize for "the best first book in English on any aspect of Polish affairs". The Polish edition, Utajone miasto, was published in 2008 and in 2009 won the inaugural Kazimierz Moczarski Prize for "the best historical book published in Poland in the past year".Steve has also published numerous articles, two of which have been reprinted in an anthology of "the most significant articles on the Holocaust of the past 60 years". Several have been published in books of eeays, among them the collection "Contested Memories".Steve's son, Erik Paulsson, is a filmmaker who was co-producer of Eve and the Firehorse, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival in 2006.Steve's connection with the Polish and Jewish worlds is through his mother, Alicja Pelcer. a Jewish woman from Warsaw who survived Auschwitz and was rescued by the Swedish Red Cross. Steve was born in Sweden in 1946. He is thus truly a "child of the Holocaust".