Bozhena Kozakevych is a historian of twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. Her research explores the entangled histories of Polish, German, Ukrainian, and Jewish communities, with a particular focus on memory cultures, the politics of history, and the history of the Second World War. She was involved in the project “Preserving Memory,” within the framework of which twelve memorial sites for murdered Jews and three memorial sites for murdered Romnja and Roma were established in Ukraine. In addition, she taught and conducted research at the Viadrina Center of Polish and Ukrainian Studies. Her doctoral dissertation is titled “Jews and Christians: Soviet Religious Policy in Multiethnic Berdychiv (1921–1964).” Since March 2026, she has been working as a research associate for the German-Polish House at the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Email bozhena.kozakevych@stiftung-denkmal.de
Phone +49 30 263943 30
Curriculum Vitae and publications
2007–2012 | Master of Arts, German Language and Literature | Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)
2012–2013 | Research Assistant | Chair of German Philology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)
2013–2017 | Master of Arts, Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe | European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
2017–2019 | Project Associate, Project “Preserving Memory” | Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
2018–2025 | Research Associate | European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Kozakevych, Bozhena: Modernisierung und Sowjetisierung Die Sowjetmacht und die Juden in Berdyčiv. In: Osteuropa 12/2023, S. 127–148.
„Ukraine-Lehre. Ein Erfahrungsbericht“. In: Pol-Int, 16.11.2023
Video „Unabhängigkeit“ für das Videoglossar der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) und des ZOiS „Was man über die Ukraine wissen sollte“
Keynote "In der Fremde - Migration und Exil gestern und heute" at the "PARATAXE Symposium XII: Fluchtpunkt Berlin - osteuropäische Literaturen unter Druck". Berlin
Kozakevych, Bozhena: Review of: Hausmann, Guido; Sklokina, Iryna (eds.): The Political Cult of the Dead in Ukraine. Traditions and Dimensions from the First World War to Today. Göttingen 2021, ISBN 978-3-8471-1383-6, In: H-Soz-Kult, 27.02.2023, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-128161.
Kozakevych, Bozhena: Soviet "Modernizing" Strategies towards Jews in the Ukrainian Town of Berdychiv. In: Euxeinos, Vol. 12, No. 34/ 2022
Kozakevych, Bozhena: "Leerstellen der Geschichte: Die sowjetische Politik des (Nicht)-Erinnerns an den Holocaust" for the website "Ukraine Verstehen", 28 September 2021.