Holocaust Research and Memory Politics in Ukraine in Times of War

This roundtable discussion will therefore focus on Holocaust research in Ukraine itself and how it is embedded in Ukrainian memory politics: What have been the priorities of researchers in Ukraine, under what conditions have they conducted their research – and how does the current war affect their work in practical and conceptual terms? What place does the Holocaust occupy in the historical narrative about World War II in Ukraine, how are Holocaust victims treated in relation to victims of Stalinism, and how is the issue of local cooperation with the occupiers handled? What is the impact of the large-scale Russian invasion on this area?

Online-Lecture with Yurii Kaparulin (Kherson State University & currently Scholars at Risk Fellow at the University of Michigan), Marta Havryshko (research associate at the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, currently URIS Fellow at University of Basel), Tobias Wals and Bert Hoppe (both Center for Holocaust-Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History).

The Research Colloquium ‘The Holocaust and its Contexts’ is co-hosted by the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at LMU Munich and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). The Colloquium is held in cooperation with the Oberseminar ‘New Research in Contemporary History’.