Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe (born 1979 in
Zabrze
Zabrze (; German: 1915–1945: ''Hindenburg O.S.'', full form: ''Hindenburg in Oberschlesien'', Silesian: ''Zŏbrze'', yi, זאַבזשע, Zabzhe) is an industrial city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The west district of the Sil ...
, Poland as ''Grzegorz Rossoliński'')
is a German–Polish historian based in
Berlin
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, associated with the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the
Free University of Berlin
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. He specializes in the history of
the Holocaust
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and
East-Central Europe
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, fascism, nationalism, the
history of antisemitism
The history of antisemitism, defined as hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group, goes back many centuries, with antisemitism being called "the longest hatred". Jerome Chanes identifies six stages in the his ...
, the
history of the Soviet Union
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, and the
politics of memory Politics of memory is the organisation of collective memory by political agents; the political means by which events are remembered and recorded, or discarded. Eventually, politics of memory may determine the way history is written and passed on, he ...
.
Career
Rossoliński-Liebe studied cultural history and East European history at the
Viadrina European University
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (german: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) is a university located at Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, Germany. It is also known as the University of Frankfurt (Oder). The city is on the ...
in
Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (), is a city in the German state of Brandenburg. It has around 57,000 inhabitants, is one of the easternmost cities in Germany, the fourth-largest city in Brandenburg, and the largest German ...
from 1999 to 2005. He worked on his doctoral dissertation about
Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( uk, Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, Stepán Andríyovych Bandéra, ; pl, Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, terr ...
and the
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Організація українських націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya ukrayins'kykh natsionalistiv, abbreviated OUN) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist political organization estab ...
at the
University of Alberta
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and the
University of Hamburg
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from 2007, and defended his PhD at the
University of Hamburg
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in June 2012.
Between 2012 and 2014, he worked on a post-doctoral project at the
Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
on the Ukrainian diasporic memory of 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; a ...
.
He also worked as a research assistant at the Foundation
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
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and at the
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) is a research centre dedicated to the research and documentation of and education on all aspects of antisemitism, racism and the Holocaust, including its emergence and aftermath. It was d ...
. He is the author of ''Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult'',
a scholarly biography of Ukrainian nationalist leader
Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera ( uk, Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра, Stepán Andríyovych Bandéra, ; pl, Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, terr ...
, and an in-depth study of his political cult.
From 2014 to 2018, Rossoliński-Liebe investigated the German-Polish collaboration in World War II. During this time, he was
Saul Kagan Fellowof the
Claims Conference
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and a fellow of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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, the
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance.
The foundation writes: "He was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentati ...
, the
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah is a foundation that was formed in 2000, with recovered money from the property taken from French Jews during World War II. Simone Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp who later became the first di ...
, the
German Historical Institute Warsaw and the
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 ...
International Institute for Holocaust Research.
Political reactions
Rossoliński-Liebe was invited in late February and early March 2012 by the
Heinrich Böll Foundation
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, the
German Academic Exchange Service
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Organisation
''DAAD'' is a ...
, and the German embassy in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
, to deliver six lectures about Bandera in three Ukrainian cities. The lectures were scheduled to take place in February and March 2012 in
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...
,
Dnipro
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and
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
. The organizers, however, were unable to find a suitable venue in Lviv, and also, three of the four lectures in
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
and Kyiv were canceled a few hours prior to the event. The only lecture took place in the German embassy in Kyiv, under the protection of police.
In front of the building, approximately one hundred protesters, including members of the radical-right
Svoboda party
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, tried to convince a few hundred interested students, scholars, and ordinary Ukrainians not to attend the presentation, claiming that Rossoliński-Liebe was "Joseph Goebbels' grandchild" and a "liberal fascist from Berlin."
In response to the harassment of his lectures and the threats made towards him during his lecture trip in Ukraine, the petition "For Freedom of Speech and Expression in Ukraine" was signed by 97 persons, including scholars such as Etienne François, Alexandr Kruglov, Gertrud Pickhan, Susanne Heim, Alexander Wöll,
Dovid Katz
Dovid Katz (Yiddish: , also , Hirshe-Dovid Kats, , born 9 May 1956) is an American-born, Vilnius-based scholar, author and educator, specializing in Yiddish language and literature, Lithuanian Jewish culture, and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. ...
, Delphine Bechtel,
Per Anders Rudling
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, and
Mark von Hagen
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.
Publications
* ''Der polnisch-ukrainische Konflikt im Historikerdiskurs: Perspektiven, Interpretationen und Aufarbeitung.'' Wien: New Academic Press, 2017, .
* With
Arnd Bauerkämper: ''Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe 1918 to 1945.'' Oxford: Berghahn 2017, .
* With Regina Fritz und Jana Starek: ''Alma mater antisemitica. Akademisches Milieu, Juden und Antisemitismus an den Universitäten Europas zwischen 1918 und 1939.'' Wien: New Academic Press, 2016, .
* “Ukraińska policja, nacjonalizm i zagłada Żydów w Galicji Wschodniej i na Wołyniu,” Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały 13 (2017): 57-79.
* “Holocaust Amnesia. The Ukrainian Diaspora and the Genocide of the Jews,” German Yearbook of Contemporary History 1 (2016): 107-144.
* “Remembering and Forgetting the Past: Jewish and Ukrainian Memories of the Holocaust in western Ukraine,” Yad Vashem Studies vol. 43, no. 2 (2015): 13-50.
*''The Fascist Kernel of Ukrainian Genocidal Nationalism'', The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, Number 2402. Pittsburgh: The Center for Russian and East European Studies, 2015.
* ''Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult.'' Stuttgart: Ibidem Press 2014, . (Reviewed by Delphine Bechtel
)
* “Erinnerungslücke Holocaust. Die ukrainische Diaspora und der Genozid an den Juden,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte vol. 62, no. 2 (2014): 397–430.
* “Der Verlauf und die Täter des Lemberger Pogroms vom Sommer 1941. Zum aktuellen Stand der Forschung,“ Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 22 (2013): 207–243.
* “Debating, Obfuscating and Disciplining the Holocaust: Post-Soviet Historical Discourses on the OUN-UPA and other Nationalist Movements,” East European Jewish Affairs vol. 42, no. 3 (2012): 199–241.
* “The ‘Ukrainian National Revolution’ of 1941. Discourse and Practice of a Fascist Movement,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History vol. 12, no. 1 (2011): 83–114.
* “Celebrating Fascism and War Criminality in Edmonton. The Political Myth and Cult of Stepan Bandera in Multicultural Canada,” Kakanien Revisited 12 (2010): 1–16.
* “Der polnisch-ukrainische Historikerdiskurs über den polnisch-ukrainischen Konflikt 1943–1947,“ Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 57 (2009): 54–85.
* “Die Stadt Lemberg in den Schichten ihrer politischen Denkmäler,“ ece-urban (The Online Publications Series of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe), No. 6, Lviv, October 2009 (Ukrainian translation).
* “Umbenennungen in der Ziemia Lubuska nach 1945,“ in Terra Transoderana: zwischen Neumark und Ziemia Lubuska, ed. Bernd Vogenbeck (Berlin: Bebra 2008): 59–68.
* “Der Raum der Stadt Lemberg in den Schichten seiner politischen Denkmäler,“ Kakanien Revisited 12 (2009): 1–21.
* “Bandera und Nikifor – zwei Modernen in einer Stadt. Die ‘nationalbürgerliche‘ und die ‘weltbürgerliche‘ Moderne in Lemberg,“ in Eine neue Gesellschaft in einer alten Stadt, ed. Lutz Henke, Grzegorz Rossoliński, and Philipp Ther (Wrocław: ATUT, 2007): 109–124.
References
External links
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Living people
1979 births
21st-century German historians
21st-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
German male non-fiction writers
Historians of the Holocaust
Historians of Eastern Europe
European University Viadrina alumni
University of Hamburg alumni
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin