Yuriy Radchenko, who holds a PhD in History, is a graduate of Vasily Karazin Kharkiv National University. Vasyl Karazin Radchenko serves as the director of the Center for Research on Interethnic Relations in Eastern Europe in Kharkiv. He has had the privilege of interning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and New Europe College in Bucharest. His articles have been published in a number of respected journals, amongst them Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yad Vashem Studies, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, FORUM, Eastern European Holocaust Studies, Pamiec i Sprawiedliwosc, [Modern Ukraine], Euxeinos: Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, The Ideology and Politics Journal, New Eastern Europe, Moreshet: Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism, and Ab Imperio.

The foreword authors: Kai Struve is an associate professor at the Institute of History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. John-Paul Himka is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.