Our Guides
Sylvia
Sylvia came to Berlin in 2005 after completing an MA in Jewish Studies and a BA in European History at McGill University in Montreal. Also a tour guide in France, Canada and the US since 1996, Sylvia leads Third Reich and general history tours of Berlin. A guide at Sachsenhausen since Mosaic’s foundation, she takes a special interest in the relationship between the camp and the neighbouring town of Oranienburg from the 1930s to the present day. Asoka
Adebisi Asoka Fozard-Esuruoso received her Bachelors degree in Film from the Maryland Institute College of Art, then enrolled in the Post-Baccalaureate program at Columbia University in New York. At Columbia she studied International Law, Human Rights, and Development Policy, as well as African American Literature. These experiences and research confirmed her desire to be a human rights activist, documentary filmmaker promoting social and political awareness, and a writer. To further this goal she enrolled in the English Masters Degree program at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, with a focus on Post-Colonial Literature and Post Colonial Political Theory.
Russell
Having lived in Berlin in 2003 and again in 2008, Russell made his third return to the city in 2010 as he completes his PhD in Germanic languages and literatures with an emphasis on Holocaust studies. Russell draws on his years of experience teaching in a university classroom as his "classes" now move beyond the ivory tower to on-site learning with groups interested in visiting the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial. Russell is especially interested in how the imbrication of (East) German memory, political narratives and "official" histories has uniquely shaped Sachsenhausen.
Ryan
Born and raised in Dundee, Scotland, Ryan moved to Glasgow over ten years ago to study History and English Literature, going on to achieve a Joint Honours degree. After a brief relocation to Munich, during which he visited Berlin for the first of many times, he returned to Scotland, undertaking a Masters degree in Modernities. During this period he partly focused on the problematic nature of literary responses to the Holocaust. During his time working for Mosaic, he has developed a particular interest in the complex and comprehensive systems of control and dehumanisation as implemented by the SS.
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