Karel C. Berkhoff

Karel Cornelis Berkhoff (born 1965) is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.^[1]

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. He studies primarily World War II in Russia and Eastern Europe. He was an advisor to the ZDF documentary "Holocaust" (2000). ^[2]

Selected publications

• “Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids” (in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, vol. 45, nr. 1 en nr. 2, 1997)
• “The ‘Russian’ Prisoners of War in Nazi-Ruled Ukraine as Victims of Genocidal Massacre” (in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 15, nr. 1, 2001)
• "Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule" (Harvard University Press, 2004)
• "Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II" (Harvard University Press, 2012 - ISBN 978-0674049246)

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

1. Staff page on NIOD website
2. Pure.knaw.nl Karel Berkhoff in a database of the KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.