Mr. Oleksandr Marinchenko

Professional Background

Oleksandr Marinchenko is a PhD candidate at Dnipropetrovs’k National University, Ukraine. For his Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, he conducted research on “The Fate of Soviet Prisoners of War in Ukraine (1941–42)”.

Mr. Marinchenko’s publications include “Nazi ‘Criminal Orders’ as a Normative Framework for the Extermination of Soviet Prisoners of War” in Ukraine during World War II and the Great Patriotic War (1939‒1945): Problems of Contemporary History (2010); “Questions for Discussion Regarding the Tragedy of Soviet Prisoners of War in the Light of Recent Russian and Ukrainian Historiography,” in An Anthology of Articles for the Seventy-Year Anniversary of the Beginning of the Great Patriotic War (2011); “Nazi Politicy in the POW Camps in the Territory of Ukraine in 1941 and Early 1942” at Nazi Camps in the Occupied Soviet Territories: An International Symposium (Paris, 2011); and “The Situation and Legal Status of Soviet Prisoners of War in the Context of International Agreements and Internal Documents of the Warring Sides” in the collectively authored eight-volume monograph The Great Victory (2011).

Fellowship Research

During his tenure at the Museum, Mr. Marinchenko utilized Museum resources to complete his research on the fate of Soviet prisoners of war in Ukraine, drawing from the Museum’s files of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. He also made use of the Museum’s collections of documents from the Central State Archives of Ukraine, none of which are available to researchers or scholars in Ukraine.

Mr. Marinchenko was in residence at the Mandel Center from September 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012. 

In Memoriam

The Museum mourns the passing on October 21, 2022 of our friend and partner Oleksandr Marinchenko. Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Marinchenko actively volunteered to support humanitarian and relief work, assisting internally displaced people. He died as a result of health complications caused by the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine.