Uldis Neiburgs, Ph.D., Director and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Latvian History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, and a Corresponding Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Author and co-author of two monographs, two popular-science books, and more than 80 research articles and reviews; editor and co-editor of ten essay collections. His research interests include the history of the Second World War, resistance and collaboration during the Soviet and Nazi occupations, social memory, and public history.