Karel C. Berkhoff
{{Short description|Dutch historian}}
Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.[http://www.niod.knaw.nl/en/staff/karel-berkhoff Staff page on NIOD website]
Berkhoff studied history and Russian studies at the University of Amsterdam, Soviet Studies at Harvard University and graduated in 1998 as a historian at the University of Toronto, 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 ZDF documentary "Holocaust" (2000).[https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/ Pure.knaw.nl Karel Berkhoff in a database of the KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.]
Selected publications
= Books =
- {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Basic Historical Narrative of the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center |year=2018 |author-mask=0 |url=https://babynyar.org/storage/main/e0/ce/e0ced2fd93bcb8a9abbdeb5df828416f12fdac9eaf096d2766b54c989e86e48b.pdf |place=Kiev |publisher=Charity Fund Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial |language=en}}
- {{Cite book |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780674049246 |location=Cambridge |publication-date=2012 |language=en |jstor=j.ctt2jbqnd |author-mask=0}}
- {{Cite book |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-674-02718-3 |location=Cambridge |language=en |jstor=j.ctv1p6hnvg |author-mask=0}}
= Articles and Book Chapters =
- {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel |title=Soviet Footage from the 1940s and the Holocaust at Babyn Yar, Kyiv |work=Documenting Nazi Crimes through Soviet Film |volume=6 |pages=1-54 |year=2025 |author-mask=0 |url=https://www.vhh-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/VHH_Publication_BERKHOFF_Soviet-Footage.pdf |doi=10.25969/mediarep/23568}}
- With Mit Manfred Sapper: {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Aussage in der Heimat der Täter |work=Osteuropa |volume=71 |issue=1-2 |pages=41–46 |year=2021 |author-mask=0 |url=https://zeitschrift-osteuropa.de/hefte/2021/1-2/aussage-in-der-heimat-der-taeter/ |language=de |jstor=27122495}}
- {{Cite |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Hoe herdacht Kiev na 75 jaar Babi Jar? |date=2016-10-27 |work=RAAM |author-mask=0 |trans-title=How did Kiev commemorate Babi Yar 75 years later? |url=https://platformraam.nl/artikelen/312-hoe-herdacht-kiev-75-jaar-babi-jar}}
- {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=‘The Corpses in the Ravine Were Women, Men, and Children’: Written Testimonies from 1941 on the Babi Yar Massacre |work=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=251-274 |year=2015 |author-mask=0}}
- {{Cite book |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8229-6293-9 |editor-last=Michael |editor-first=David Fox |location=Pittsburgh |publication-date= |pages=83–117 |language=en |chapter=Total Annihilation of the Jewish Population: The Holocaust in the Soviet Media, 1941-45 |author-mask=0 |editor-last2=Holquist |editor-first2=Peter |editor-last3=Martin |editor-first3=A. M.}}
- {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Babi Yar: Site of Mass Murder, Ravine of Oblivion |date=2012 |author-mask=0 |url=https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/Publication_OP_2011-02.pdf |place=Wahington |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum}}
- {{Citation |title=The ‘Russian’ Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre |work=Holocaust and Genocide Studies |volume=15 |issue=1 |year=2001}}
- with {{Cite journal |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel |last2=Carynnyk |first2=Marco |author-mask=0 |title=The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Its Attitude toward Germans and Jews: Iaroslav Stets’ko’s 1941 Zhyttiepys |url=https://www.academia.edu/2469365/The_Organization_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists_and_Its_Attitude_toward_Germans_and_Jews |journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies |volume=23 |issue=3-4 |pages=149-184|year=1999}}
- {{Citation |last=Berkhoff |first=Karel C. |title=Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids |work=Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas |volume=45 |issue=1 |year=1997 |author-mask=0 |jstor=41049902}}
Awards
- Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, 2001 from the Wiener Library for the book Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule.
References
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Weblinks
- [https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/b/e/k.c.berkhoff/k.c.berkhoff.html?cb Karel C. Berkhoff] at University of Amsterdam
- [https://www.niod.nl/en/staff/karel-berkhoff Karel C. Berkhoff] at NIOD
- [https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/karel-c-berkhoff-2010 Karel C. Berkhoff] at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- [https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Karel-C-Berkhoff-2079069838 Karel C. Berkhoff] at ResearchGate{{Authority control}}
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Category:University of Amsterdam alumni
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:University of Toronto alumni
Category:20th-century Dutch historians
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