PhDr. Monika Vrzgulová, CSc.
Senior Research Fellow
Memory studies, oral history research (Holocaust, communist regime in Slovakia, politics of memory of non-democratic regimes,prejudices and stereotypes in social discousre,
Klemensova 19
813 64 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
F:+421-2 52964707-116
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Dr. Monika Vrzgulová is a senior research fellow of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, a prominent expert on the Holocaust in Slovakia, issues of memory, and identity, the memory policy, and urban ethnology. She has been conducting domestic and international research using the oral history method for over two decades (topics: tradespeople in urban areas, the war-time Slovak state and the Holocaust (1939-1945), the post-war period and the Jewish community, youth and the 1960s). She studies the representations of historic events and periods (e.g. the Holocaust) in narratives obtained by means of the oral history method and their relationship to codified policies of remembering or public discourse in society. As a researcher and principal investigator of many basic and applied research projects, she has rich experience in organizational and management work. In cooperation with non-governmental organizations (Milan Šimečka Foundation, Holocaust Documentation Centre, etc.), she applies the results of her research in education programs for secondary school students and teachers. She was a member of the Slovak delegation in ITF/IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) from 2005-2013. From 2005-2017 she was the director of the Holocaust Documentation Center in Bratislava. From 2011-2016, she was the Slovak research team leader in the USHMM Oral History Documentation Project: Crimes Again the Civilian Populations during WW2: Victims, Witnesses, Collaborators, and Perpetrators. In 2018 she was the Gunzenberger-Reichman Family Fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. She has many years of experience in presenting research results by organizing conferences, discussion meetings for the public, and working with the mass media. She has published the results of her research in seven monographs and dozens of studies.
More information: https://sav-sk.academia.edu/MonikaVrzgulova
More information: https://sav-sk.academia.edu/MonikaVrzgulova