Lilia Tomchuk
2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellow
Lilia Tomchuk is a PhD candidate in History, holding the Jürg Breuninger Doctoral Scholarship at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is currently working on her dissertation project on the experiences of Jewish women in Romanian-occupied Transnistria during the Holocaust.
For her research she has been awarded the German-Ukrainian Historians’ Commission Fellowship (2021) and the Yad Vashem Grant for Doctoral Students and Young Scholars (2021). Previously she studied History and Spanish at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to become a secondary school teacher. She wrote her thesis on sexual violence against Jewish women in Ukrainian territory from 1941–1945, based on eyewitness accounts from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, for which she received an award from the Fritz Bauer Institute.
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Lilia Tomchuk Awarded 2021-2022 Greenberg Research Fellowship
Lilia Tomchuk, a PhD candidate at the Fritz Bauer Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt, has been awarded the 2021-2022 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. She will be in residence at the Center in Spring 2022 in order to conduct research for her dissertation, which is entitled “Dimensions of Jewish Women’s Experiences During the Holocaust in Occupied Ukraine.”