Alexander Martin Korb (born 1976) is a German historian specialising in

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

Genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...

anti-Semitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

and related mass crimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2010 Korb has been Lecturer in Modern European History at the

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. From 2012 until 2018 he was director of the

Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (SBC) is a teaching and research centre located within the school of history at the University of Leicester. The Centre The Centre was founded by historian Aubrey Newman in 1990, and ...

Biography

Korb studied history and received an M.A. in

contemporary Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is o ...

and

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from the Technical University of Berlin in 2004, and in

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

from the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

. In addition he studied History, Russian and Baltic studies at Charles University Prague, State University Voronezh, Université d'Aix-Marseille, and Ludwigs Maximilian Universität München. During his research fellowship at the

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust hi ...

in the 2006–2007 academic year, Korb was a PhD candidate in history at Humboldt University. For his doctorate he examined mass violence in the Balkans during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. To this end, he spent several months researching the archives of the Yugoslav successor states, Italy, Germany and Israel. He is considered one of the leading European experts on the history of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

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. In 2010, Korb was appointed Lecturer in Modern

European History The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500 to AD 1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early ...

at the

, he completed his PhD in 2011. He was director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a major research center within the university, between 2012 and 2018. Korb held fellowships at

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the

USC Shoah Foundation USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Hol ...

and the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Selected works

Books

* Awarded the prize of the Foundation. * Awarded, among others, the

Fraenkel Prize The Wiener Holocaust Library () is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the pe ...

in Contemporary History of the

Wiener Library The Wiener Holocaust Library () is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the pe ...

(London), Irma Rosenberg Prize of the Institute for Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, Andrej Mitrović Prize of the Michael Zikic Foundation (Bonn) and Herbert Steiner Prize of the

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from 1938 until 1945, exile, Nazi crimes, right-wing extremism after 1945, and victims' repara ...

and the International Conference of Labor and Social History (Vienna). * Awarded The Wiener Holocaust Library's Fraenkel Prize

Articles

* Homogenizing southeastern Europe, 1912–99: ethnic cleansing in the Balkans revisited (2016) * Völkisch Journalists in Postwar Germany: Intellectual Continuities in German Journalism, 1930–70 (2015) * Mastering the Balkans: German, Italian, and Endogenous Population Policies 1941–43 (2010)

Memberships

Positions and memberships: *

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of Humanities – Sozial und Kulturgeschichte (H-Soz-u-Kult) * Association of historians in Germany (VHD)
German History Society
(GHS) I * International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS)
German Association for Historical Peace and Conflict Research
(AKHF) * Working Group on Military History

References

External links

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Alexander Korb at the USC Shoa Foundation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Korb, Alexander 1976 births Living people 20th-century German historians Academics of the University of Leicester Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Technical University of Berlin alumni