Whitehouse studied International History at the London School of Economics and took up a career at the BBC World Service.
[1] As a researcher, she has extensively documented the experience of Holocaust survivors in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War.
[2][3] She has reported on remembrance efforts and assaults on Holocaust memory in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
[4][5][6][7][8] Her historical research and profiles of Holocaust Survivors have been published by The Observer, The Jewish Chronicle, BBC News and Tablet magazine.
[13][14] Whitehouse is married to the journalist Tim Judah, and spent five years in the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars with her family, which she documented in her memoir Are We There Yet.