"Unearthing Traces of Jewish Life in Ukraine"

Ukrainian Historian Viktoria Soloschenko in Conversation with Marianne Windsperger

Authors

  • Viktoria Soloschenko
  • Marianne Windsperger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/con_vsol01

Keywords:

Cultural Property, Confiscation, Ukraine, Restitution, Jewish History, Material Culture

Abstract

In this interview VWI fellow Viktoria Soloschenko gives insights into her research topic "Confiscations and Traces of Cultural Property of Ukrainian Jews During the Holocaust." and provides the reader with information on current research in Ukraine in this field. However, she also talks about the impact of the  Russian invasion of Ukraine on her daily her life as a scholar and how the experiences of the current war shape her research topics. 

Author Biography

  • Viktoria Soloschenko

    Viktoria Soloschenko holds a PhD in contemporary history and is deputy director of the Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She has held fellowships at the Centre for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences (September 2015), the Central Institute for Art History in Munich (Winter Academy, February 2016), the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (DUHK) at Ludwig Maximilian University (September to October 2017), the Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern and Central Europe in Marburg (December 2018), the Institute of Contemporary History (November to December 2021) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington (July 2021). From September to October 2022 Viktoria Soloschenko held a fellowship at VWI and from November 2022 to April 2023 she was a Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research fields include Nazi looted art, restitution, the Holocaust in Ukraine, and Ukrainian-German cultural relations from the mid-20th to the beginning of the 21st cen- tury. Her current research topic focuses on Nazi looted art with a special emphasis on “Confiscations and Traces of Cultural Assets of Ukrainian Jews during the Holocaust”.

     

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Published

2024-12-04

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2024): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

Section

INTERVIEW

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How to Cite

“‘Unearthing Traces of Jewish Life in Ukraine’: Ukrainian Historian Viktoria Soloschenko in Conversation With Marianne Windsperger”. 2024. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 11 (2): 111-21. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0224/con_vsol01.