The Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History is an international center of competence and communications for research on the Holocaust.

The center organizes conferences and workshops and carries out its own research and publishing projects. Numerous publications of the center have appeared since 2013, including a well-received edition of Alfred Rosenberg’s diaries. The center is closely connected to the Department of History of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. The center’s staff teach classes on the subject of the Holocaust at the university alongside the head of the center and adjunct professor at the university.

The center was established to be a forum for international research on the Holocaust and as a bridge to Eastern Europe in particular. It extends fellowships to guest researchers from around the world to provide them with an attractive infrastructure. A joint fellowship has also been introduced in cooperation with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Munich site provides excellent conditions for research through the renowned infrastructure of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History and its expansive research network.