Dr. Vlasta Kordová

Dr. Vlasta Kordová holds a Ph.D. in History from the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and an M.A. and B.A. from the Faculty of Philosophy and the Faculty of Education at Charles University in Prague. Her research focuses on the Nazi repressive apparatus in the context of the suppression of the partisan resistance and holocaust. During her doctoral studies she received several scholarships: Erasmus+ at the Universität Leipzig, Junior Fellowship at the Zentrum für Holocaust Studien at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Munich, research scholarship from the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfond; she was a Patočka Junior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, received an Ernst Mach research Grant and an Aktion scholarship from the Österreichische Austauschdienst (OeAD) supported by prof. Philipp Ther from Universität Wien. Lately, Kordová was a Junior Fellow at the Simon Wiesenthal Institute. She is the author of a several articles, two monographs and occasionally writes essays for newspapers.

Her most recent publication is a contribution to the collective monograph Operation Barbarossa and its Aftermath. New Approaches to a Complex Campaign, entitled The Holocaust in 1941 as Part of Security Warfare in the Rear of the Eastern Front, in Light of the Nazis’ Security Apparatus and Policy, edited by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, which will be published by Berghahn Books at the end of this year (https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Rossolinski-LiebeOperation).