Karel C. Berkhoff
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Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.[1]
Berkhoff studied history and Russian studies at the University of Amsterdam, Soviet Studies at Harvard University and graduated in 1998 as a historian at the University of Toronto, studying under Paul Robert Magocsi, Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He studies primarily World War II in Russia and Eastern Europe. He was an advisor to the ZDF documentary "Holocaust" (2000).[2]
Selected publications
Books
- Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (PDF), Kiev: Charity Fund Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial, 2018
- Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2012. ISBN 9780674049246. JSTOR j.ctt2jbqnd.
- Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-674-02718-3. JSTOR j.ctv1p6hnvg.
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Soviet Footage from the 1940s and the Holocaust at Babyn Yar, Kyiv" (PDF), Documenting Nazi Crimes through Soviet Film, vol. 6, pp. 1–54, 2025, doi:10.25969/mediarep/23568
- With Mit Manfred Sapper: "Aussage in der Heimat der Täter", Osteuropa (in German), vol. 71, no. 1–2, pp. 41–46, 2021, JSTOR 27122495
- "'The Corpses in the Ravine Were Women, Men, and Children': Written Testimonies from 1941 on the Babi Yar Massacre", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 251–274, 2015
- Berkhoff, Karel C. (2014). "Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population: The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941-45". In Michael, David Fox; Holquist, Peter; Martin, A. M. (eds.). The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 83–117. ISBN 978-0-8229-6293-9.
- Babi Yar: Site of Mass Murder, Ravine of Oblivion (PDF), Wahington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012
- "The 'Russian' Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2001
- with Carynnyk, Marco (1999). "The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Its Attitude toward Germans and Jews: Iaroslav Stets'ko's 1941 Zhyttiepys". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 23 (3–4): 149–184.
- "Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids", Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 45, no. 1, 1997, JSTOR 41049902
Awards
- Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, 2001 from the Wiener Library for the book Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule.
References
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