Alexander Martin Korb (born 1976) is a German historian specialising in the Holocaust, genocide, anti-Semitism and related mass crimes in Central and Eastern Europe.
[3] During his research fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the 2006–2007 academic year, Korb was a PhD candidate in history at Humboldt University.
To this end, he spent several months researching the archives of the Yugoslav successor states, Italy, Germany and Israel.
[6] He was director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a major research center within the university, between 2012 and 2018.
[7] Korb held fellowships at Yad Vashem, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the USC Shoah Foundation and the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.