Dr. Tikva Fatal-Knaani

Dr. Tikva Fatal-Knaani, researcher and editor, received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1995 for her thesis, The Jewish Community in Grodno, and Its Vicnity during the Second World War and the Holocaust, 1939-1944.  She was Head of Yad Vashem’s Testimonies Division and the Russian Division from 1988-2009, and Director of the The International Institute for Holocaust Research from 1998-2009. 

Her publications include:

-“Grodno”, in: Shmuel Spector (ed.), Lost Jewish Worlds, Jerusalem 1996, pp. 16-190.

- “ Grodno: Attempts of Resistance, Escape and Rescue During the Holocaust”, in: Studies for Research of the Holocaust Period, vol. 14, 1997, pp. 51-75 (Hebrew). 

-“The Community of Grodno as Reflected in Letters 1932-1941”, in: Yalkut Moreshet, vol. 66, October 1998, pp. 69-80 (Hebrew).

- Grodno Is not the Same, Yad Vashem: Jerusalem 2001 (Hebrew).

-“The Jews of Pinsk in the Light of New Documentation 1939-1943”,  in: Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 29, 2001, pp. 149-182.

The Jews of Rowne 1919-1945: The Life and Death of a Community, Yad Vashem: Jerusalem 2012 (Hebrew)