Kateřina Králová
Kateřina Králová
QUALIFICATIONS
2010 Ph.D., Modern History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
2002 M.A., Political Science, German Language and Literature, Philosophische Fakultät, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Contemporary European History, Holocaust and Memory Studies, Post-conflict Society, Historical Migration, Regional focus: Greece, Central, East and South-East Europe
RESEARCH PROFILE
Kateřina Králová is a professor of contemporary history and a memory studies scholar at the Institute of Ethnology (CAS) and Charles University in Prague, where she leads the Research Centre for Memory Studies. An expert with a focus on Nazi persecution and Holocaust studies, Králová is a recipient of the Humboldt and Fulbright-Masaryk Fellowships. Králová has authored key publications, including Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung (Böhlau, 2016; BpB, 2017), co-edited Diverse Perspectives on Jewish Life in Southeast Europe (Routledge, 2019), and guest-edited special issues of Southeasteuropean and Black Sea Studies, Nationalities Papers, and the Journal of Modern European History. Her new book, Homecoming, on Holocaust survivors in Greece, is published by Brandeis University Press.
Králová is actively involved in international collaborations, such as the Slow Memory COST Action and the HERA project “Times of Crisis, Times in Crisis”. She has received significant recognition for her research, including the Learned Society of the Czech Republic award for junior researchers in 2017, becoming its elected member in 2024. That same year, Králová became the head of the Board of Fulbright Czechia. As a longstanding member of the Memory Studies Association (MSA), Králová was invited to organize the MSA 2025 global conference in Prague.
Books
2025 Homecoming: Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941–46. Waltham: Brandeis University Press.
2017 Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung. Deutsch-griechische Beziehungen seit 1940 [The Legacy of the Occupation. German-Greek Relations since 1940]. Berlin: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Köln: Böhlau 2016).
2013 Stē skia tēs Katochēs: oi ellēnogermanikés schéseis tēn período 1940-2010 [In the Shadow of the Occupation: Greek-German Relations from 1940 to 2010]. Athens: Alexandreia.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues
2024 Responding to Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe: History and Memory of World War II and its Aftermath in European Perspective. Special Issue of Journal of Modern European History. (co-editor Ferhedbegović, Sabina)
2023 Troubled Pasts and Memory Politics in Central and Southeastern Europe. Special Issue of Nationalities Papers 51(3). (co-editor Asavei, Maria Alina)
2023 Memory Cultures since 1945: German-Southeast European Entangled History. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (co-editors Ferhedbegović, Sabina – Voß, Christian)
2019 Diverse Perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe. Abingdon: Routledge. (co-editors Vulesica, Maria – Antoniou, Giorgos)
2016 Minderheiten im sozialistischen Jugoslawien: Brüderlichkeit und Eigenheit [Minorities in Socialist Yugoslavia: Brotherhood and Unity]. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (co-editors Kocián, Jiří – Pikal, Kamil)
2016 Návraty: poválečná rekonstrukce židovských komunit v zemích středovýchodní, jihovýchodní a východní Evropy [Returns: Postwar Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in Central, Southeastern, and Eastern European Countries]. Praha: Karolinum. (co-editor Kubátová, Hana)
2015 Stegnosan ta dakrya mas: Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia [Our Tears Dried Out: Greek Refugees in Czechoslovakia]. Athens: Alexandreia. (co-editor Tsivos, Kostas)
2012 Vyschly nám slzy: řečtí uprchlíci v Československu [Our Tears Dried Out: Greek Refugees in Czechoslovakia]. Praha: Dokořán. (co-editor Tsivos, Kostas)
Journal Articles
2024 Responding to Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe: History and Memory of World War II and Its Aftermath in European Perspective. Introduction. Journal of Modern European History 22(2): 124–129. (co-author Ferhedbegović, Sabina)
2024 Nazi Crimes, Max Merten and his Prosecution as Reflected in Greece and beyond. Journal of Modern European History 22(2): 169–187. (co-author Lagos, Katerina)
2023 The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory? Nationalities Papers 51(3): 622–643. (co-author Karasová, Nikola)
2023 Beyond the National Museum Paradigm: Troubled Past Vernacular Representations in Central and Southeastern Europe. Nationalities Papers 51(3): 512–517. (co-author Asavei, Maria Alina)
2022 Silenced Memories and Network Dynamics in Holocaust Testimonies: The Matalon Family and the Case of Greece. S. I. M. O. N. 9(2): 51–66.
2022 Hachsharot in Greece, 1945–1949: Camps or Vocational Centers? Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 21(1): 75–102.
2021 Breaking out of Silence: Victims of the 1944 Distomo Massacre in Greek-German Relations. Suedosteuropa-Mitteilungen 61(2–3): 81–91.
2020 The Voices of Greek Child Refugees in Czechoslovakia. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 38(1): 131–158. (co-author Hofmeisterová, Karin)
2018 Operation Anthropoid: The Proof of Czech National Heroism? Kosmas: Journal of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences 1(1): 94–96.
2017 The “Holocausts” in Greece: Victim Competition in the Context of Postwar Compensation for Nazi Persecution. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 23(1–2): 149–175.
2017 “Being Traitors”: Post-War Greece In the Experience of Jewish Partisans. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 17(2): 263–280.
2017 Introduction – Diverse Perspectives On Jewish Life In Southeast Europe: The Holocaust and Beyond. Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 17(2): 155–163.
2016 In the Shadow of the Nazi Past: Post-war Reconstruction and the Claims of the Jewish Community in Salonika. European History Quarterly 46(2): 262–290.
2012 Children of the Greek Civil War: Refugees and the Politics of Memory. Historein 12: December: 137–140. (co-author Tsivos, Kostas)
2009 Otázka loajality řecké emigrace v Československu v letech 1948 až 1968 [The Question of Loyalty of Greek Emigrants in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1968]. Slovanský přehled 95(3): 337–350.
Book Chapters
2023 Le cimetière fantôme de Thessalonique [The Ghost Cemetery of Thessaloniki]. In: Barzilai, Martin: Cimetière fantôme – Thessalonique. Saint-Etienne: Créaphis, pp. 187–202.
2020 German Collective Guilt in the Narratives of Southeastern European Holocaust Survivors. In: Molnar, Christopher – Zakic, Mirna (eds.): German-Balkan Entangled Histories in the Twentieth Century. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, pp. 114–135. (co-author Kocián, Jiří)
2020 What is True and What is Right? An Infant Jewish Orphan's Identity. In: Bardgett, Suzanne – Schmidt, Christine – Stone, Dan (eds.): Beyond Camps and Forced Labour. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 105–123.
2020 'Being traitors': post-war Greece in the experience of Jewish Communities and American Jewish humanitarian aid in Yugoslavia, 1944–1952. In: Králová, Kateřina – Vulesica, Maria – Antoniou, Giorgos (eds.): Jewish life in Southeast Europe: diverse perspectives on the Holocaust and beyond. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 108–125.
2020 Introduction – diverse perspectives on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: the Holocaust and beyond. In: Králová, Kateřina – Vulesica, Maria – Antoniou, Giorgos (eds.): Jewish life in Southeast Europe: diverse perspectives on the Holocaust and beyond. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1–9.
2018 I germaniki politiki tis epexergasias tou parelthontos: Mia geniki episkopisi [The German Policy of Processing the Past: A General Overview]. In: Dordanas, Stratos N. – Papanastasiou, Nikos (eds.): Ο «μακρύς» ελληνογερμανικός εικοστός αιώνας: Οι μαύρες σκιές στην ιστορία των διμερών σχέσεων. Thessaloniki: Epikentro, pp. 313–343. (co-author Kocián, Jiří)
2018 Being a Holocaust Survivor in Greece: Narratives of the Postwar Period, 1944–1953. In: Antoniou, Giorgos – Moses, A. Dirk (eds.): The Holocaust in Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 304–326.
2015 Itan toso fanatikoi giati s'auti tin ypothesi evalan tin kardia tous. I elliniki prosfygia kai to KKE [They were so passionate because they put their hearts into this cause. Greek Refugees and the KKE]. In: Králová, Kateřina – Tsivos, Kostas (eds.): Stegnosan ta dakrya mas: Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia. Athina: Alexandria, pp. 262–289.
2015 Oloi ston polemo! Ola gia ti niki! O Emfylios polemos kai i archi tis ellinikis politikis prosfygias [Everyone to the War! Everything for Victory! The Civil War and the Beginning of Greek Political Refugees]. In: Králová, Kateřina – Tsivos, Kostas (eds.): Stegnosan ta dakrya mas: Ellines prosfyges stin Tsechoslovakia. Athina: Alexandria, pp. 37–81. (co-author Tsivos, Kostas)
2015 Reparationsforderungen: Umfang, Rechtsfragen, politische Rahmenbedingungen [Reparation Claims: Scope, Legal Issues, Political Context]. In: Klemm, Ulf-Dieter –Schultheiß, Wolfgang (eds.): Die Krise in Griechenland: Ursprünge, Verlauf, Folgen. Bonn: BPB, pp. 299–325. (co-author Karasová, Nikola)
2013 Německý archeologický institut v Athénách [The German Archaeological Institute in Athens]. In: Filipová, Lucie – Pešek, Jiří (eds.): Věda a politika: německé společenskovědní ústavy v zahraničí (1880–2010). Praha: Karolinum, pp. 283–307.
2009 Einige Anmerkungen zu Rassismus und Xenophobie in Tschechien nach 1989 [Some Remarks on Racism and Xenophobia in the Czech Republic after 1989]. In: Heiss, Gernot – Králová, Kateřina – Pešek, Jiří – Rathkolb, Oliver (eds.): Tschechien und Österreich nach dem Ende des kalten Krieges. Ústí nad Labem: Albis International, pp. 341–368.
2008 Několik poznámek ke stavu rasismu a xenofobie v Česku po roce 1989 [Some Remarks on Racism and Xenophobia in the Czech Republic after 1989]. In: Heiss, Gernot – Králová, Kateřina – Pešek, Jiří – Rathkolb, Oliver (eds.): Česko a Rakousko po konci studené války: různými cestami do nové Evropy. Ústí nad Labem: Albis International, pp. 177–206.
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2025–2028 The Land Gone Wild: Archaeology and Transdisciplinary Research of Resilience Strategies in 20th Century, Archaeology of Memory and Cultural Heritage, financed by the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic. Member of the research team.
2025–2028 TiCToc: Times In Crisis, Times Of Crisis: The Temporalities Of Europe In Polycrisis. Humanities in the European Research Area Network (HERA) in collaboration with CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe). Member of the research team.
Editorial Work
Ongoing Soudobé dějiny, Český časopis historický, Slovanský přehled, Editorial Board
Board Memberships
Ongoing Leverhulme Trust Grant “Times of Polycrisis in the UK and Europe”, Advisory Board Member
Ongoing Head of the Fulbright CZ Board
Ongoing Elected member of the Learned Society, Czechia
Ongoing Humboldt Alumni Club CZ, Board member
Ongoing Academic Board member, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Ongoing Head of the research cluster “Plurality of Memories in Europe in Global Perspective,” 4EU+ Alliance
Ongoing Academic Council member – “Swiadectwa Wojny / Testimonies from the War”
Ongoing COOPERATIO Board Member and Faculty representative in the field of History, Charles University
Ongoing Honorary Research Associate, Graduate School for E- and SE-European Studies, Regensburg
Ongoing Co-founder, Deputy Director & Committee Member of the Herzl Centre of Israel Studies
Teaching Experience
Ongoing Professor in Modern History, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague.
Invited Talks, Public Lectures or Roundtables
2024 December, 5. Deutsch-Griechische Beziehungen: Diplomatie und Erinnerungspolitik. [German-Greek Relations: Diplomacy and Memory Politics]. Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft online debate
2024 September, 26. Karya 1943 (keynote). Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit & EVZ, Berlin
2024 June, 10-11. History of Political Violence and Radicalism. Graduate Institute workshop, Geneve
2024 April, 26. Holocaust Ruins: Ethnography of Hirsch quarter in Thessaloniki. CETOBaC, Paris
2024 January, 15-18. What’s new in Austrian Holocaust Studies? Digital Tools & Methods. EHRI workshop, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
