Ilya Altman

Ilya Alexandrovich Altman (Russian: Илья Александрович Альтман) (*1955) is a Russian historian and (next to Alla Gerber) founder and co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center in Moscow. He is also author of over 300 publications on the history of the Holocaust and the Eastern Front (World War II), many of which have been published in the U.S., Israel and Western Europe.

Life

Altman is a graduate of Russian State University for the Humanities, where he worked as a lecturer between 1988 and 1993. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, he became Deputy Director of the National Archives in Vladimir and executive officer of the State Archives of the USSR. In 1992 he co-founded with Mikhail Gefter the first Holocaust research center in Russia. Ilya Altman is a frequent speaker at leading universities in the U.S., France and Germany.

Publications (selection)

• Victims of Hate: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union 1941-1945, Moscow, 2002 (English)
• The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-occupied Soviet Territories; 2008 (English)
• The Holocaust in the Soviet terriories; Moscow and Jerusalem 2009 (Russian)

See also

• Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
• Holocaust research
• The Holocaust in Russia
• The Holocaust in Ukraine
• History of the Jews in the Soviet Union
• Babi Yar

External links

• Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center (English)
• Conversation with Ilya Altman - From the July - August 2005 issue of Jewish Currents Nurturing Holocaust Studies in the Former Soviet Union (English)