Alexander Korb is director of the Stanley Burton Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester and a scholar of the Holocaust in southeastern Europe. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Humboldt University in Berlin and received earlier research fellowships from Yad Vashem, Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Vienna, and the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.  

During his fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Professor Korb explored the phenomenon of collaboration, drawing from a number of country case studies in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. He argued that we need to include Jewish perspectives in order to understand collaboration, because Jews knew their collaborating neighbors much better than the Germans did. The Visual History Archive gave him a better sense of the victims’ perspectives, both Jews and non-Jews. 

Professor Korb conducted research for his upcoming book, A Multitude of Lethal Attacks: Collaboration and Mass Violence in Southeastern Europe, 1940-1946. The book will explore how the Holocaust intertwined with ethnic cleansing and civil war, and when and how such mass violence ends.