Karel Berkhoff

Karel Berkhoff is a senior researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. 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 the Holocaust and World War II in Eastern Europe. He has been co-director of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (2019-2025).

Selected Publications
“Babi Yar.” Mass Violence and Resistance - Research Network, 27 May 2015, https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/babi-yar.html.
“Ukraine under Nazi Rule (1941–1944): Sources and Finding Aids.” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 45, no. 1 (1997): 85-103 and no. 2 (1997): 273–309.
Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
“‘The Corpses in the Ravine Were Women, Men, and Children’: Written Testimonies from 1941 on the Babi Yar Massacre.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 29, no. 5 (Fall 2015): 251–274.