Curriculum Vitae Last Name: Karsai First Name: László Date of Birth: Budapest (Hungary), September 20, 1950 Sex: Male Marital status: Married - 1975, Dr. Éva Kelemen Children: Daniel (1977), Péter (1980) Citizenship: Hungarian Address: H - Hungary, 1024 Budapest, Keleti K. 11/a. Tel. (36.1) 316-2169; e-mail: karsai@hist.u-szeged.hu Professional title and workplace: Professor of History, University of Szeged, Department of Modern History, H-6722, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2. Hungary; Tel/fax: (36-62) 546-795. Director, Holocaust Center of the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest, Hungary (1998-); Head of the Yad Vashem Research Group-Hungary (1994-). Scientific adviser: Holocaust Documentation Center, Budapest (2003-2004) Studies: University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest (1970-1975) Education: M. A. - History - University Eötvös Loránd, 1978; Subject of thesis: Marx and Engels on the National Question Ph.D. - History - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1992. Subject of thesis: - The Gypsy Problem in Hungary 1919-1945, Toward the Gypsy Holocaust in Hungary
Major publications Books 1. A nemzetiségi kérdés Franciaországban [The Minority Problem in France] /Budapest, Kossuth K., 1983. pp. 165/ 2. Flamandok és vallonok [The Flemish and the Walloons] /Budapest. Kossuth K., 1986. pp. 200/ 3. A Szálasi per [The Szálasi Trial] - in collaboration with Dr. Elek Karsai - /Budapest. Reform K., 1988. Pp. 766/ 4. A cigánykérdés Magyarországon 1919-1945. Út a cigány Holocausthoz [The Gypsy Question in Hungary 1919-1945. Toward the Gypsy Holocaust] /Budapest. Cserépfalvi K., 1992. pp. 197/ 5. Kirekesztõk. Antiszemita írások 1881-1992. [The Exclusionists. Anti-Semitic Writings 1881-1992] / Budapest. Aura K., 1992. pp. 212/ 6. Befogadók. Írások az antiszemitizmus ellen 1882-1993. [The Welcomers. Writings against Anti-Semitism 1882-1993] Budapest. Aura K., 1993. pp. 256/ 7. Az Endre-Baky-Jaross per [The Endre-Baky-Jaross Trial] -in collaboration with Dr. Judit Molnár /Budapest. Cserépfalvi K., 1994. pp. 650/ 8. Holokauszt [Holocaust] / Budapest, Pannonica K., 2001. pp. 426/ 9. A magyar Quisling-government. Sztójay Döme és társai a népbíróság előtt [The Hungarian Quisling-Government. Döme Sztójay and his associates in front of the People s Court] /Budapest, 56-os Intézet, 2005, pp. 670. In collaboration with Dr. Judith Molnár/ Studies, essays 1. Ferenc Szálasi [in. Études Historiques Hongroises, 5. t. 1990. 191-210. pp. ed. F.Glatz.,] 2. Textbooks on the Shoah. In. Gy. Kukovecz ed.: Teaching Modern European History, Szeged, 1992, pp. 81-87. 3. Débats sur la Shoah dans la presse hongroise 1989-1992 /Les Temps Modernes, Juin, 1993. pp. 67-78./ in English: Debates on the Shoah in the Hungarian Press, 1988-1992 / in:
Bulletin trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz, Brussels, N. Special 44-45, Octobre- Décembre 1994, pp. 49-56./ 4. Evreii si comunismul: stapini sau sclavi? [Jews and Communists: Masters or Servants?] / I., "22". p. 13. -Bukarest- 12-18. ianuarie 1994.; II., uo. p. 14. 19-25. ianuarie 1994. 5. Historians, Executioners, Victims book review - D. J. Goldhagen: Hitler s Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust In: Budapest Review of Books, Spring,1998, pp. 2-15.) 6. Topfen im Meer. Solidarität und Menschenrettunk in Ungarn /in: Benz, Wolfgang - Wetzel, Juliane (Hrsg.): Solidarität und Hilfe für Juden wahrend der NS-Zeit. Regionalstudien 3., Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 1999, 207-246 p./ 7. The Hungarian Holocaust as reflected in the people s courts trials in Budapest. In: Yad Vashem Studies, 2004, Vol. 32., pp. 59-96. 8. Searchlight into Darkness. The Diary of Ferenc Szálasi, September 15, 1943-July 18, 1944 In: Yad Vashem Studies, 2009 Fall (forthcoming) International Conferences: 1.)October 6-10, 1991. Tel Aviv University-Israel; International Seminar on Identity Revival: Studies on East European Jewish Life History; The title of my paper: The Holocaust in the Hungarian Press 1989-1991. 2.)June 18-20, 1992. Paris-France, CNRSS: Anti-Semitism in Formerly Socialist East- Central Europe: Historical Roots and Recent Developments; The title of my paper: Some Problems of the Historiography of the Hungarian Jewish Shoah. 3.) November 23-27, 1992. Brussels, Belgium Fondation Auschwitz; Histoire et mémoire des crimes et génocides nazis; The title of my paper: Debates on the Shoah in the Hungarian Press 1989-1992. 4.) April 5-7, 1994. Budapest, International conference, Holocaust in Hungary, 50 years after. The title of my paper: Hungarian Textbooks on the Holocaust 5.) May 22, 1994 Washington D.C.-USA; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Holocaust in Hungary, seminar. The title of my paper: The Szálasi Regime and the Jews 6.) September 19-23. 1994. Vienna-Austria; International seminar on the European Gypsy Holocaust. The title of my paper: Gypsy Holocaust in Hungary.
7.) February 12, 1995. Los Angeles- USA. UCLA Sunset Conference Center; International conference. The Last Episode of the European Jewish Holocaust,. The title of my paper: The Liberation of the Last Ghetto. 8.) April 20, 1995. Rome, Italy, International conference, Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". The title of my paper: Dall emancipazione fino all Olocausto. Storia degli ebrei in Ungheria nei secoli XIX-XX. 9.) November 2-4, 1995. Vienna-Austria, Political Justice in Post-War Europe; International Conference. Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. The title of my paper: People s Courts and Political Justice in Hungary 1945-1946. 10.) November 8-10, 1995, Prague-Czech Republic, International Society for Human Rights; Racism Yesterday and Today. The title of my paper: Racism and Anti-Semitism in Hungary 1919-1995. 11.) December 11, 1995, Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Das Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung; International Conference: Solidarität und Hilfe. The title of my paper: Jews and Gentiles in Hungary 1938-1945 12.) March 21-23, 1996,. Seattle-USA (Washington University) "The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989"; The title of my paper: The radical right in Hungary 1989-1995 13.) February 4-5, 1998. Strasbourg-France; Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés Résistants et Patriotes.-"Conservation et ouverture aux chercheurs des archives des camps et concentration et du génocide: étude particuliére du SIR d Arolsen". The title of my paper: Inventaire, conservation et consultation des archives des camps de concentration et du génocide: législation nationales, pratique du SIR et expérience d Arolsen. 14. March 16-18, 2004. Washington, D. C. USHMM, International conference: The Holocaust in Hungary: Sixty Years Later. The title of my paper: The Fatefull Year, 1942 in the Hungarian Diplomatic Reports 15. April 16-18, 2004 Budapest, International conference: The Holocaust in Hungary 60 Years Later. The title of my paper: The Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrets in Hungary, 1920-1944.
University lectures and optional courses: history of anti-semitism, racism; history of fascism, Nazism, bolshevism; History of Europe-20 th. Century; History of the European minorities; Holocaust. Field of research: Hungarian county and National Archives, Archives of Budapest, Archives of the Ministry of the Interior, Hungarian Military Archives; Bundesarchiv-Bern, National Archives and Record Administration-Washington, D.C.; Archives Nationales, Archives de MAE-Paris-France.