Irina Rebrova

Irina Rebrova is a historian of Holocaust and other Nazi victim groups in the Soviet Union. She defended her PhD thesis at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University, Berlin. The title of her PhD thesis and published in 2020 book is “Re-constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus.” She holds a Russian PhD degree (candidate of science in history) and MA in sociology (Gender studies). During 2014–2022 she was a Research Associate in Hadassah Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, USA. Since 2022 she is a member of the board of the German non-profit association KONTAKTE-KOНTAKТЫ that promotes intercultural tolerance, education about history and donations for the victims of the Nazi era in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her latest project “Remember us…” dealt with the history and memory of people with disabilities who became Nazi victims in the occupied regions of Russia during World War II (http://nsvictims.ru/). In November 2023, she began her term as Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Center for Research on Antisemitism TU Berlin.