Research Centers

Among the main topics that are studied by the Center are the fate of the Jews who were caught by the war on territories occupied by the Germans; Jews in the Red Army and in the Soviet rear; Soviet policy toward the Jews; and the impact of the Holocaust on the identity of Soviet and post-Soviet Jewry. The approaches applied include the use of newly developed methodologies regarding the history of the Soviet Union and general Jewish history using interdisciplinary approaches accepted in history, sociology, anthropology and psychology, and the study of identity and historical memory.

The value and importance of studying the history of Polish Jews during the Holocaust stems not only from the central part it played in the history of Jewry at the time and the fact that the Jews of Poland were the largest concentration of Jews under Nazi rule, nor only from the concentration of death camps in occupied Poland.

Established in 2012 under the auspices of Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research, The Center for Research on the Holocaust in Germany aims to encourage research activity on the history of Jews in Germany under the Nazi regime and facilitate the Israeli public’s access to this topic.The Center for Research on the Holocaust in Germany organizes various research activities, among which are the following:Publishing contemporaneous resources in Hebrew translation, enabling the Israeli readership to access them.Supporting new studies in the field.Promoting collaboration...

Situated in Yad Vashem’s International Institute for Holocaust Research, The Diana and Eli Zborowski Center seeks to initiate, coordinate and support research relating to the consequences and implications of the Shoah. The center was established by Dr. Zeev Mankowitz ז"ל who was a pioneer in the study of Survivors of the Holocaust in the immediate Aftermath.The post-war years were one of huge upheaval and transition. In these few years, survivors of the Holocaust were for the most part homeless, geographically dispersed, displaced and recovering from their...