Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Dutch language, Dutch: ''NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies'') is an organisation in the Netherlands which maintains archives and carries out history, historical s ...

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. Berkhoff studied

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and

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at the

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and graduated in 1998 as a historian at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...

, studying under

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, Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He studies primarily World War II in Russia and Eastern Europe. He was an advisor to the

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documentary "Holocaust" (2000).Pure.knaw.nl Karel Berkhoff in a database of the KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Selected publications

*"Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids" (in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 45, nr. 1 en nr. 2, 1997) *"The ‘Russian’ Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre" (in

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, vol. 15, nr. 1, 2001) *"Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule" (

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, 2004) *"Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II" (

, 2012 - )

Awards

*Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, 2001 from the

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for the book ''Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule''.

References

1965 births Living people 20th-century Dutch historians Historians of Ukraine University of Amsterdam alumni Harvard University alumni University of Toronto alumni 21st-century Dutch historians {{Netherlands-historian-stub