Wiebke Zeil studied history, European ethnology and modern European history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since October 2021, she has been working on her doctoral thesis on Das jüdische Auswandererlehrgut Groß-Breesen als überzeitlicher Referenzpunkt deutsch-jüdischer Lebenswege im 20. Jahrhundert (The Jewish emigration training farm Gross Breesen as a supratemporal point of reference for German-Jewish lives in the 20th century) at the Department of History at the Humboldt University. From November 2021 until January 2022, she was a fellow at the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam. She has been a doctoral fellow at the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk since April 2022.