This new EHRI blogpost “My Experience of Studying the Holocaust” by pioneering scholar in the field of Holocaust Studies in Ukraine, Alexander Kruglov, explores first attempts and further developments in Holocaust research in Ukraine. It gives a concise overview of historiography, of the availability of the archival sources and about the publication process. This post uncovers the challenges of an East European scholar in Holocaust research and the extensive turn in this field in Ukraine after 1991. 

This post is the opening article of our new special thematic Document Blog series dedicated to the Holocaust in Ukraine. This series is one of the outcomes of EHRI’s initiative to help Ukrainian scholars at risk and make Ukraine and its researchers more visible in the field of Holocaust Studies.

Read the EHRI Document Blog post.