Hanna Veiler

President, European Union of Jewish Students

Hanna Veiler was born in 1998 in Belarus and has lived in southern Germany since 2005. From a young age, she has engaged with issues of Jewish identity, cultures of remembrance, antisemitism, and migration. After completing the German Israeli Volunteer Service in Israel in 2017, Veiler studied Art History, French, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Jewish Social Work in Germany, France, Costa Rica, and Bahrain. In 2019, she was among the founding members of the Jewish Student Union of Württemberg. From 2023, she served as President of the Jewish Student Union of Germany, and in 2025 she was unanimously elected President of the European Union of Jewish Students. In 2024, she was recognised as “Woman of Europe” by the EBD Network and as Ambassador for Democracy and Tolerance by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Veiler's first book "Young. Jewish. Angry" was published in October 2026. She lives in Brussels.