Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies, Clark University, USA
Natalya Lazar’s dissertation, entitled “Czernowitz Jews and the Holocaust,” explores Jewish life and the changing dynamics of interethnic and neighborly relations in the contested borderland city, placing the Holocaust in the larger frame of mass violence during World War II. Ms. Lazar’s research has taken her to archives in Ukraine, Romania, Israel and the United States. While Ms. Lazar is a native Ukrainian speaker, she also applies language skills in Romanian, German, Russian and English, and she plans to study Yiddish. She was a Black Sea Link Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest in 2012. Ms. Lazar’s dissertation advisor is Dr. Debórah Dwork, Rose Professor of Holocaust History. Her dissertation committee members are Dr. Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College) and Dr. Karel Berkhoff (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam). Her dissertation advisor is Deborah Dwork (Clark Institute).