Alexander basket

Alexander Martin Korb (* 1976 ) is a German historian specializing in the Holocaust , genocide , history of Germany , anti-Semitism and Southeast Europe .

Korb is the author of publications on violence research . Since 2010 he has been Lecturer for Modern European History and Deputy Director of the Stanley Burton Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester .

Life

Korb studied history and received his master's degree in modern and medieval history and gender studies from the Technical University of Berlin in 2004 . He spent semesters abroad in Aix-en-Provence , Prague and Voronezh .

From 2000 to 2010, Korb worked in various museums and memorials in Frankfurt am Main , Oranienburg ( Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum ) and Berlin ( House of the Wannsee Conference ), where he researched, developed exhibitions and guided visitors.

For his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2010, Korb examined the mass violence perpetrated by the fascist Ustaša movement during the Second World War . To this end, he researched the archives of the Yugoslav successor states , Italy , Germany and Israel for several months . During his doctorate, Korb received several grants , including a research grant at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the 2006/2007 academic year.

In 2010, Korb was appointed lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester. He is also Associate Director of the Stanley Burton Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a key research center within the university.

Works

Korb's works have appeared or been translated in various languages. In addition to numerous articles in specialist literature, he is the author of the following publications:

• Reactions of the German population to the November pogroms as reflected in official reports . VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2007 (including the Technical University of Berlin , master's thesis , 2004. Awarded the Foundation Prize on July 20, 1944 ).

• In the shadow of the world war: mass violence of the Ustaša against Serbs, Jews and Roma in Croatia 1941–1945 . Hamburger Edition, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-259-2 (also Humboldt University of Berlin , dissertation , 2010. Awarded the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library ( London ), Irma Rosenberg Sponsorship Prize from 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 Archive of Austrian Resistance and the International Conference of Labor and Social History (Vienna)).

Web links

• Dr Alexander Korb. University of Leicester, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
• Alexander Korb: Research Fellow (10 / 2013–03 / 2014): From the end of violence. Transformation in Yugoslavia 1944–1953. Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), accessed on April 20, 2020 . 
• Dr Alex Korb. The National Holocaust Center & Museum, accessed April 20, 2020 .