Dr. Gintare Malinauskaite

Professional Background

Gintare Malinauskaite is a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Previously, she served as research fellow and head of the Vilnius branch office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw. She holds a PhD in history from Humboldt University in Berlin and two master’s degrees: one in interdisciplinary Latin American studies from the Free University of Berlin and another in political science from the Central European University. She completed her undergraduate studies in political science at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Her research interests focus on Holocaust research, memory studies, war crimes trials, and the 19th and 20th-century history of Lithuania. 

Dr. Malinauskaite’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from several foundations and institutions, including the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Humboldt University, the Open Society Foundation, the FAZIT Foundation, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. 

Dr. Malinauskaite is the author of two books: Mediated Memories: Holocaust Narratives and Iconographies in Lithuania, published by the Herder-Institut in 2019, and The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context: The 1964 Klaipėda War Crimes Trial, published by Routledge in 2024. She also co-edited the volume Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after the Second World War, and has written book chapters and articles on various topics, including the Holocaust in rural Lithuania, memory politics in Soviet and post-1990 Lithuania, war crimes trials, and cinema. Currently, she is working on a book project about writing–and the rewriting of–the history of the Holocaust in Soviet Lithuania, 1960–1970s. 

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Sosland Foundation Fellow, Gintare Malinauskaite will conduct research on how archival documents were collected, censored, and disseminated in Soviet Lithuania during the 1960s and 1970s, and how these practices were used to write, and to rewrite, the official narrative of the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. She is interested in the public usage of captured German records, Soviet censorship practices, and archival exchanges of historical documents between Soviet Lithuania and other nations. Her research combines the cultural history of archives with studies on World War II and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. It aims to understand how Soviet archival practices fit into the broader international context of documenting war crimes during the Cold War. 

During her research residency, Ms. Malinauskaite plans to utilize the Museum’s archival collections related to the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, war crimes investigation and trial records, oral history and eyewitness testimony collections, and Soviet-era Jewish diaries, notebooks, and memoirs. In addition, she will have access to valuable research materials from numerous archival institutions, including the Lithuanian State Archives, the German Federal Archives, and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. 

Residency Period: September 1, 2025–December 31, 2025