Petro Dolhanov

Petro Dolhanov

Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education


  • Research topic:
    Property Hunters: Economic Factors in the Behavior of the Non-Jewish Population of Western Volyn during the Holocaust
    Period:
    September 2025
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PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of Teaching Methods at the Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, a member of the Mykola Haievoi Center for Contemporary History, editor of the section "Overcoming the Past" and guest editor of a special thematic issue on the Holocaust in the journal Ukraina Moderna, member of the editorial board of the academic journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies.

As a guest editor, he worked on a special thematic issue of the Ukraine Modern journal, The Holocaust in Ukraine: How the History of the Crime is (Un)Written. He is the author of the monograph 'Each to Their Own': The Socioeconomic Dimension of Ukrainian Nation-building in Interwar Poland (Rivne, 2018). Co-author of the monograph City of Memory — City of Oblivion: Palimpsests of the Memorial Landscape of Rivne (Rivne, 2019, co-authored with Maksym Hon and Natalia Ivchyk). He is the author of a series of publications on the history of the Holocaust in the cities and towns of western Volyn, The Life and Death of Jewish Communities. His most recent unpublished research, Cemetery Hill in the Caucasus: The History of the Space of Three Cemeteries Near Lytovska Street in Rivne, focuses on the history of the formation, evolution, and destruction of the space of three cemeteries in Rivne in the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.

He organizes trainings, summer schools, roundtables, and academic conferences on memory studies and memory policy. Coordinator of educational and exhibition projects related to the memorialization and popularization of Holocaust history among the public. In particular, he is one of the initiators and coordinator of the exhibition project A Brief History of Violence: The Second World War and the Holocaust in Western Volyn (implemented by the NGO "After Silence" in 2023-2023). As part of the activities of the NGO "Center for the Study of Memory Policy and Public History 'Mnemonic'", he was one of the initiators and coordinators of the installation of memorial signs to the victims of Nazism in Rivne based on the "stumbling blocks" model and a memorial sign to the victims of the Rivne ghetto.

Research interests: Holocaust history, theory and practice of nationalism, politics of memory.

As part of her current research, she is studying the history of the Western Volyn ghettos (in particular, the political and economic aspects of ghettoization at the stages of creation, functioning, and destruction of the ghettos of Western Volyn). The geographical scope of the study roughly covers the territory of the Volyn Voivodeship in the interwar period (the territories of the present-day Rivne, Volyn, and northern Ternopil oblasts).