Anat Plocker

Dr. Plocker specializes in Modern East European History. Her work focuses on the
memory of World War II and the Holocaust in the post-Stalinist era. Dr. Plocker
examines the Polish case in order to explore the links of collective memory and
political ideology. Her doctoral dissertation investigates the relations between
the communist regime and the Jewish minority in the 1960s and offers a new
interpretation of the “March 1968 Events” in Poland. During the events, the
regime launched an anti-Zionist campaign and expelled Jews from state institutions.
Dr. Plocker’s study analysed the purge from the communist regime’s point of view,
offering a new theoretical and chronological framework. Her current work looks at
the dynamics of history, memory, culture, and communist discourse in the east European
space from a comparative perspective.