Dr. Stanislovas Stasiulis

Professional Background

Dr. Stanislovas Stasiulis is a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. He holds a PhD (2018) and a master’s degree (2012) from Vilnius University (Lithuania) and previously worked at the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History as the head of the Paneriai Memorial. Over the last few years, he co-edited two books: The Traces of Crimes Do Not Disappear: Mass Killings in the Paneriai Forest, 1941-1944 (with Saulius Sarcevičius) and Zelig Kalmanovich Hope is Stronger than Life: Vilna Ghetto Diary (with Saulė Valiūnaitė). Additionally, he is one of curators of the exhibition ‘Books do not grow on Trees’: Saving and Transmitting Memory, which was exhibited in Lithuania, Israel, and the United States. Currently, he is working on a book project about Nazi propaganda in occupied Lithuania, 1941-1944. He uses sources in Lithuanian, English, German, Russian, Polish and Yiddish.

Fellowship Research

Dr. Stasiulis was awarded the Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship for his research project, “New Allies, Old Foes: Nazi Propaganda in Occupied Lithuania, 1941-1944.” His project investigates three questions: on an official level, how Nazi authorities in occupied Lithuania framed the image of the enemy; how and to what scale local intellectuals participated in creating these images; and how local society reacted to the images used in Nazi propaganda.

While in residence at the Mandel Center, Dr. Stasiulis will be researching textual and visual material of Nazi propaganda, along with other USHMM archival collections related to the Nazi occupation of Lithuania.

Residency Period: October 1, 2023–January 31, 2024