Research and Teaching

Visiting Scholar

at the Fritz Bauer Institut

Dr. Viktoriya Latyshava

Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

since April 2023

Viktoriya Latyshava has been a Visiting Scholar at the Fritz Bauer Institute since April 2023. She is working on a research project »Post-war discourse of persecution and extermination of the mentally ill in the occupied territory of Belarus in 1941–1944«. The implementation of the project is based on attention to the postwar practices of »talking« about the problem stated in the theme. To this end, attention is paid to the search for and analysis of various types of sources formed both in the Soviet period of Belarus' history and in the modern one.

Viktoriya Latyshava received her historical education at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Polotsk State University (2002), a master's degree at the Faculty of the Belarusian State University (2003), postgraduate studies at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2006). In 2007, she defended her PhD thesis.

Research Interests
  • culture of »talking« practices
  • between Soviet society and the state
  • discriminated groups in totalitarian states
Current Research Project

Post-war discourse of persecution and extermination of the mentally ill in the occupied territory of Belarus in 1941–1944

Selected publications
  • »Einzelschicksale in Kriegsalltag und Tod. Psychisch kranke und geistig behinderte Menschen in Weißrussland«, in: Alexander Friedman, Rainer Hudemann (Hrsg.), Diskriminiert – vernichtet – vergessen. Behinderte in der Sowjetunion, unter nationalsozialistischer Besatzung und im Ostblock 1917–1991, Stuttgart 2016, S. 423–428.
  • »Krankentötungen in Westweißrussland«, in: Alexander Friedman, Rainer Hudemann (Hrsg.), Diskriminiert – vernichtet – vergessen. Behinderte in der Sowjetunion, unter nationalsozialistischer Besatzung und im Ostblock 1917–1991, Stuttgart 2016, S. 429–431.
  • Библиотека ГУ «Республиканский научно-практический центр психического здоровья» как место хранения массовых источников по истории психического здоровья населения на территории Беларуси в 1944–1948 гг. Здабыткі: дакументальныя помнікі на Беларусі, Мінск, № 22, 2019, С. 151–162.
     

Dr. Christina Winkler

Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

January 2022 to December 2022


Sarah Crane M.A.

(University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

Fritz Bauer and the Auschwitz Trial. The Lessons and Limits of Transitional Justice
Fulbright scholarship, September 2021 to August 2022


Prof. Dr. Dmytro Tytarenko

(Donetsk Institute of Law / Krywyj Rih)

Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

March 2021 to February 2022


Dr. Maik Tändler

(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

The history of the intellectual right in the Federal Republic from its founding until the 1990s

C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
January to December 2021


Dr. Gergely Kunt

(University of Miskolc)

The Public and Private Memory of »Children's Republic«. Gaudiopolis Orphanage in Post-World-War II Budapest

C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
February 2020 to January 2021


Dr. Martin Clemens Winter

(Leipzig)

Forced labor and mass murder of Jews in court. Nazi trials against employees of HASAG 1945–1967

C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
April 2020 to December 2020


Dr. med. Moritz Verdenhalven

(Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Frankfurt am Main)

The Municipal and University Clinic for Nervous and Mental Illnesses (Städtische und Universitätsklinik für Nerven- und Gemütskranke) in Frankfurt am Main during the National Socialist period. Transfers, deaths and forced sterilizations

Visiting scholar as part of the sponsorship model of the Department of Medicine at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, August 2019 to September 2020


Samuel J. Miner B.A.

(University of Maryland)

Nazi Crimes and the Basic Law. War Crimes Trials and the Path to Militant Democracy

Fulbright and DAAD scholarship, September 2018 to August 2019


Dr. Filip Gańczak

(Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw)

Auschwitz in the interrogation room. Prof. Dr. Jan Sehn (19091965). A scholarly biography

DAAD scholarship, January to February 2019


Denisa Nešťáková M.A.

(Comenius Universität Bratislava)

Arab-Jewish relations during the British Mandate for Palestine through the perspective of the German Temple Society

DAAD scholarship, October 2017 to July 2018


Max Lazar M.A.

(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Jerusalem on the Main: Jewish Integration in Frankfurt, 1914–1938

DAAD scholarship, October 2017 to July 2018


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