Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in

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. Berkhoff studied

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and

Russian studies Russian studies is an interdisciplinary field crossing politics of Russia, politics, history of Russia, history, Culture of Russia, culture, economy of Russia, economics, and languages of Russia, languages of Russia and its neighborhood, often gr ...

at the

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and graduated in 1998 as a historian at the

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, studying under Paul Robert Magocsi, 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

Books

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Articles and Book Chapters

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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

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NIOD 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 ...

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust, dedicated to the documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust. Opened in 1993, the museum explores the Holocaust through p ...

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