Ilya Altman

Ilya Alexandrovich Altman (Russian Илья Александрович Альтман, as Ilya Altman, scientific transliteration: Ilya Alexandrovich Altman, born 1955 ) is a Russian historian and (next Alla Gerber ) Founder and Co - Chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Center " Holocaust" in Moscow. In addition, he has authored over 300 publications on the history of the Holocaust and the Great Patriotic War, many of which have appeared in the United States, Israel and Western Europe.

Life

Altman is a graduate of Moscow State University for the Humanities, where he worked as a Lecturer from 1988 to 1993. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently, he was deputy director of the State Archives in Vladimir and senior advisor to the State Archive of the USSR. In 1991 he founded together 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.

Altman and his colleagues at the Holocaust Center in Moscow have for many years successfully for the inclusion of the history of the Holocaust in the curricula of Russian schools, where they are supported by official sources. Altman is also (co - ) author of several books on the history of Russian-speaking teacher's of the Shoah.

Altman pointed out early on the importance of teacher training for confronting the Holocaust in Russian schools. As co - chairman of the Centre " Holocaust ," he called, therefore, a special department for training programs to life. The resulting organized seminars are supported by Yad Vashem, the Jewish Agency, the Joint Distribution Committee and other organizations.

In addition, the initiative for the establishment of the Moscow synagogue memorial to both the Russian - Jewish Congress as well as Ilya Altman goes back

Publications (selection)

• Victims of hate. The Holocaust in the USSR from 1941 to 1945. With a foreword by Hans -Heinrich Nolte. From the Russian by Ellen gripper. . Muster-Schmidt, equals / Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7881-2032-0 (Russian original edition: Жертвы ненависти Холокост в СССР, 1941-1945 гг - Schertwy nenawisti Cholokost v SSSR 1941-1945, Fond " Kowtscheg. .. », Moscow 2002, review H -Soz -u-Kult, 24 October 2008).
• The Unkown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German -occupied Soviet Territories; 2008 (English )
• The Holocaust in the Soviet territories. An encyclopedia; Moscow and Jerusalem, 2009 (in Russian )