Career
He is also author of over 300 publications on the history of the Holocaust and the Eastern Front (World World War II), many of which have been published in the United States, Israel and Western Europe. Altman is a graduate of Russian State University for the Humanities, where he worked as a lecturer between 1988 and 1993. In 1983 he received his doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Subsequently, he became Deputy Director of the National Archives in Vladimir and executive officer of the State Archives of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. In 1992 he co-founded with Mikhail Gefter the first Holocaust research center in Russia.
Ilya Altman is a frequent speaker at leading universities in the United States, France and Germany. He and his center also published Russian language teaching aids on the Holocaust, a volume for teachers, “History of the Holocaust in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1941-1945,” and a book for pupils, “History of the Holocaust, 1933-1945”.
He participated actively in the seminars sponsored by the Association of Jewish Schools and Principals in the Commonwealth of Independent States , which the Memorial Foundation created after Glasnost, for its more than 40 constituent members. He also organized tens of educational seminars in the Commonwealth of Independent States with other bodies, working and receiving support from Yad Vashem, the Jewish Agency, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and other groups.
His foundation was also instrumental in creating a Holocaust museum in Moscow.
