Dmytro Tytarenko hat an der Staatlichen Universität Donezk Geschichte studiert. Er habilitierte sich 2014 mit dem Thema «Das Kulturleben in der Ukraine während der NS-Besatzung (Militärverwaltungsgebiet)». Er arbeitete als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Landeskundemuseum Donezk und von 2006 bis 2021 - an der Juristischen Universität Donezk (die Universität wurde wegen des Krieges im Donbas 2014 nach Mariupol und Krywyj Rih verlegt). Seit 2021 ist er als Professor für Ukrainische Geschichte an der Staatlichen Pädagogischen Universität Krywyj Rih tätig.

Forschungsschwerpunkte: Geschichte der Ost-Ukraine während der NS-Besatzung, «Euthanasie»-Verbrechen in der Ukraine, Krieg im Donbas (2014-2022), Geschichtspolitik. Sein aktuelles Forschungsprojekt konzentriert sich auf die Untersuchung von Verbrechen, die in der Stadt Mariupol und ihrer Umgebung während der NS-Besatzung an Zivilisten und sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen begangen wurden. 

Claire Burchett is a PhD student in the department of European & International Studies at King's College London. Her doctoral research analyses the social media output of three far right populist parties, the Alternative for Germany, the Freedom Party of Austria, and the National Rally in France, to consider how antisemitism is used as a political tool in the strategic inclusion and exclusion of Jews from the body politic. While at the centre, she will use the archives of the IfZ to investigate how the AfD's discourses on Holocaust remembrance and antisemitism compare to those of the post-war German radical right.

Alexia M. Orengo-Green is a fourth-year Doctoral Candidate in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California (USC) under the advisement of Dr. Wolf Gruner. Her dissertation, tentatively titled, "Involved in Survival," investigates the Jewish children who with or without their parents escaped Nazi Germany and its occupied territories and went to Latin America. In 2021, she graduated from New York University (NYU) with a Master's in Public History. Her capstone project, "A New Look at Teaching the Holocaust: A Teacher’s Guide to Expanding the Holocaust Narrative Beyond Anne Frank"  provides resources for teachers to expand the Holocaust narrative through historical context on antisemitism, the modern state, victims, and the events that followed the Holocaust. In 2019, Alexia graduated from Dickinson College with a double major in History and Archaeology. 

Kolja Buchmeier is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Leipzig and an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitsm from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked at the Sachsenhausen Memorial and the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (ZfG) and the online platform “Die andere Seite der Verfolgung. Selbstzeugnisse des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts revisited”. 

In his PhD project titled “Das Netzwerk der nationalsozialistischen Zwangslager in Brandenburg” he aims to provide a social history of the Nazi camp system in Brandenburg, focusing not only on concentration camps, but also on POW camps and forced labour camps.

He is particularly interested in the influence of WWII and German occupation on the Nazi camp system as well as the changing relations between the camps and their neighbouring communities throughout the war. 

During his stay at the Center for Holocaust Studies Kolja will examine court records as well as memoirs, eyewitness accounts and interviews of the USC Shoah Foundation. 

Sara Jevtić is a PhD candidate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She holds a Bachelor degree in Eastern European Studies and a Master degree in Eastern European History and Slavic Studies from the University of Basel. 

Her doctoral project is a micro-historical research of relationship constellations, interactions and interrelationships during the Second World War in occupied Serbia. Using the example of the border town of Šabac, the research aims to answer questions related to occupation, collaboration and resistance, as well as escape, persecution and genocide “from bellow”. She is primarily interested in transregional and transnational interactions as well as social processes regarding the Holocaust.

During her stay at the Center for Holocaust Studies, she will examine official documents, such as military documents and orders, regarding the Holocaust in Serbia and the concentration camp in Šabac.

Beatrice Leeming is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge in History. She obtained an MPhil in Modern European History, also from Cambridge. Her doctoral research considers the dialogue between former concentration camps and their visitors since the 1990s, primarily the phenomenon of Holocaust Tourism and its contribution to the ongoing imperative of Holocaust remembrance. She considers the presentation of space and memory in topographical, digits and curatorial dimension. The research takes a transnational, comparative approach to ask if, and how, the ‘voice of the visitor’ alters the way sites navigate changes to their functions in anticipation of and beyond the twenty-first century. Her material includes visitors’ books, memorial ‘offerings’, as well as tourist literature. Working in anticipation of a crux in temporal as much as spatial witnessing, this project is an attempt to understand how sites have and will continue to maintain their significance in dialogue with the diverse audiences they work with.

Whilst at the centre, she will work closely with the proximate historic sites, such as Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. She will also consult the archives of the IfZ itself, in particular its efforts to work with its public in research conferences and seminars.