Historian and researcher, recently at the Center for Jewish Studies, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, currently research fellow at erinnern.at - the Holocaust Education Institute of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education; 2009-2010 Doctoral research fellow at the Center for Austrian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; March to July 2019 Lecturer at the Center for Austrian Studies; Research focuses:  Austrian Jewish History, migration and escape of Austrian Jewish women and men, exile in Palestine/Israel, antisemitism, oral history.
Victoria Kumar has received her PhD from the University of Graz with a thesis on the the migration and escape of Austrian Jewish women and men to Palestine from 1920 to 1945.