Holocaust research

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 in Jerusalem, Israel, the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, named after the German judge and prosecutor at the Auschwitz Trial (1965), the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Sweden, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Prominent scholars include Léon Poliakov, Gerald Reitlinger, Raul Hilberg, Yehuda Bauer and Martin Gilbert.