Dr. Christoph Dieckmann
The Shoah in Lithuania: A Different Approach, New Insights
 

Hundreds of thousands of people did not survive the German occupation of Lithuania from 1941-1944. Nearly half of the victims were Jews.  Christoph Dieckmann takes a new look at the relation between warfare, occupation policy, and mass crimes. In his work with hardly known German and Lithuanian sources, Dieckmann finds that the context of decisions for mass crimes and the Shoah might become both more complicated and clearer.

Dr. Christoph Dieckmann, historian and independent researcher, has been a member of the Presidential International Commission for the Evaluation of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania since 2000. Until 2017, he conducted a research project called Yiddish Historiography on the Russian Civil War at the Fritz-Bauer-Institut in Frankfurt am Main. His study Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944) was published in 2011 and was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research in 2012. Dieckmann has worked as a researcher with the Ukrainian History Global Initiative and until recently was a professor at the University of Haifa in the Weiss-Livnat International Program of Holocaust Studies.