Antonio Ferrara

My research project is focused on two closely interrelated subjects which are both relevant for the understanding of the divided memories of today’s united Europe. The first one is the history of the “strangers” deported to the Soviet concentration camps, the Gulags, during and after World War II from countries that today belong to the European Union. The second one is the history of David Rousset’s Commission Internationale Contre le Régime Concentrationnaire (CICRC), whose denunciation of the Gulag played a significant role in the ideological struggles in Western Europe during the Cold War.