Ilya Alexandrovich Altman

Ilya Altman 2000

Ilja Alexandrowitsch Altman ( Russian Илья Александрович Альтман , also as Ilya Altman , scientific transliteration : Ilya Alexandrovič Altman ; * 1955 ) is a Russian historian and (alongside Alla Gerber ) founder and "Co-Chairman of the Russian Research and Education Center" Moscow . He is also the author of over 300 publications on the history of the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War , many of which have appeared in the US , Israel and Western Europe.

Life

Altman is a graduate of Moscow State University of Human Sciences , where he lectured from 1988 to 1993. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences . Subsequently, he was deputy director of the State Archives in Vladimir and senior consultant of the State Archives of the USSR . In 1991 he founded the first Holocaust research center in Russia together with Michail Gefter . Ilja Altman regularly gives lectures at leading universities in the USA , France and Germany .

Altman and his colleagues at the Holocaust Center in Moscow have been campaigning successfully for years to include the history of the Holocaust in the curricula of Russian schools, with official support. Altman is also (co-) author of several Russian-language teacher manuals on the history of the Shoah.

Altman emphasized early on the importance of teacher training for dealing with the Holocaust in Russian schools. As co-chair of the “Holocaust” Center, he therefore set up a separate department for advanced training programs. The seminars organized through this are supported by Yad Vashem , the Jewish Agency , the Joint Distribution Committee and other organizations.

In addition, the initiative to build the Moscow Memorial Synagogue goes back to both the Russian-Jewish Congress and Ilya Altman.

Publications (selection)

• Victim of hatred. The Holocaust in the USSR 1941–1945. With a foreword by Hans-Heinrich Nolte. Translated from the Russian by Ellen Greifer. Muster-Schmidt, Gleichen / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7881-2032-0 . (Russian original edition: Жертвы ненависти. Холокост в СССР, 1941-1945 гг. - Schertwy nenawisti. Cholokost w SSSR 1941–1945 “, Moskva 2002, review H-Soz-u-Kult , October 24, 2008).
• The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-occupied Soviet Territories; 2008 ( Memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• The Holocaust in the Soviet Territories. An encyclopedia ; Moscow and Jerusalem 2009 (Russian)

See also

• Russian Research and Education Center "Holocaust"
• Holocaust research
• History of the Jews in Russia
• Holocaust in Eastern Europe
• Baby jar

Web links

Commons : Ilya Altman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Russian Research and Education Center "Holocaust" ( Memento from April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (German)
• Conversation with Ilya Altman - From the July - August 2005 issue of Jewish Currents Nurturing Holocaust Studies in the Former Soviet Union (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae of Ilya Altman ( memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) 
2. ↑ Russian Holocaust essay winners and contemporary witnesses on a UNESCO visit ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
3. ↑ The Russian Research and Education Center "Holocaust" about its activities ( Memento from March 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ ^{a b} The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture about Ilya Altman ( Memento of the original of July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)