Alexandra Tcherkasski (Germany), Ph.D. Candidate, Bochum University, Die Stellung der Holocausterfahrung im Rahmen der sowjetischen Erinnerungspolitik nach dem "Großen Vaterländischen Krieg".

Alexandra Tcherkasski is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the Institute for Diaspora Research and Genocide Studies at Ruhr University Bochum. She holds a master's degree (Magister Artium) in Jewish Studies, Slavic Studies, and Yiddish language, culture and literature from Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and Ruhr University Bochum. Her dissertation research focuses on the memorialisation of the Holocaust in the Soviet remembrance culture of World War II. During her EHRI Fellowship she investigated the cooperation between Mémorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu (Mémorial de la Shoah) and Soviet delegations from 1953 to 1965.