Albert Venger

Albert Venger

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University


  • Research topic:
    "In the Chain of Perpetrators": The Holocaust and Its Accomplices in Psychiatric Hospitals and Houses for People with Disabilities in Reichkommissariat Ukraine
    Period:
    October 2022 - February 2023
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He graduated from the Faculty of History of Dnipro National University in 2008. He is a Ph.D. in History and head of the world history department at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. He is the author of three individual and two collective monographs and the compiler of one collection of documents. His main research interests include the history of ethnic communities in Ukraine and intellectual history. In 2022, he received a scholarship from the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw in cooperation with the Center for Urban History.

He participated in several international research projects, some of which focused on the lives of people with mental and physical disabilities during the Nazi occupation. He became a guest editor of the 28th issue of the scientific journal "Ukraina Moderna. The Useless People: War Crimes, Judgement, (Non)Memory". In 2020, he led a team of historians that won the Second International History Hackathon; and based on the team's work, an educational platform, was created. In 2022, he participated in the project "The Many Faces of Ukraine: mapping Ukraine's ethnic diversity" supported by the University of St.Gallen.

He is currently working on completing a monographic and archeographic work on the lives of patients and medical staff of psychiatric hospitals in the Dnipro region during the Nazi occupation.