Lovro Kralj

Lovro Kralj is a historian who specializes in the research areas of fascism, antisemitism, genocide, and the Holocaust with a regional focus on Central and Southeast Europe. He completed his doctoral studies in 2023 at the Central European University (CEU). The title of his doctoral dissertation is “Paving the Road to the Holocaust in the NDH: Antisemitism in the Ustaša Movement, 1930-1945.” His research has been awarded with numerous fellowships and grants, including a Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Contemporary Research in München, the Claims Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Holocaust Studies, a Junior Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), and the Sharon Abramson Research Grant for Holocaust Research of the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University. Kralj has participated in more than twenty international conferences, seminars, and workshops, including Lessons & Legacies, the world’s most prestigious Holocaust conference. Since 2022 he is employed at the Department of History, University of Rijeka where he is also coordinating several international projects related to the history of the Holocaust. In January 2024, he helped co-found, and currently serves as the first Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka.