Holocaust research is a scholarly discipline that encompasses the historical research and study of the Holocaust.

Among the research institutions and academic programmes specializing in Holocaust research are the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....

 in Jerusalem, Israel, the Fritz Bauer

Fritz Bauer

Fritz Bauer was a German judge and prosecutor.-Life:Bauer was born in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire to Jewish parents. He attended Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and studied business and law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Tübingen. After receiving his Doctorate of...

 Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, named after the German judge and prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials

Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

, the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an academic institute conducting research in Holocaust and genocide studies. It is a part of the Centre for Multiethnic Research of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at Uppsala University....

 in Sweden, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...

 in Washington and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research

Polish Center for Holocaust Research | Centrum Badan nad Zaglada Zydow is an academic and research center at the Polish Academy of Sciences.-Mission:Created in 2003, the main goal of the Center is interdisciplinary research relating to the Holocaust...

 at the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...

 in Warsaw.

Prominent scholars include Léon Poliakov

Leon Poliakov

Léon Poliakov was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France....

, Gerald Reitlinger

Gerald Reitlinger

Gerald Roberts Reitlinger was a scholar of the economics of art and of history, particularly the Holocaust...

, Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...

, Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...

 and Martin Gilbert

Martin Gilbert

Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...

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