World War II, Nazi Crimes, and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

International Conference

December 7–9, 2012
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Myasnitskaya 20
Moscow, Russia

Jews wait outside the Moscow synagogue before the start of a memorial service for Holocaust victims, March 14, 1945. US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Co-organized by the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Georgetown University, the National Research University “Higher School of Economics,” and the University of Toronto, this interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to forge new analytical perspectives on the Holocaust in the East, the Nazi occupation of Soviet territories, and wartime Stalinism.

Conference Topics

Panels will address such topics as:

• Occupation, complicity, and collaboration
• The experiences of partisans and POWs
• The politics of food in the war effort
• Displacement and evacuation in the Soviet interior
• Everyday life on the Soviet home front
• Postwar investigations of wartime atrocities
• Gender
• Cultural representations of the war and the Holocaust

Conference Program

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Contact

For further information, please contact Krista Hegburg, Program Officer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at khegburg@ushmm.org.