Diana Dumitru

Diana Dumitru is a Moldovan historian, who is the Ion Ratiu Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University in the US. She is considered the leading scholar of the fate of Bessarabia's and Bukovina's Jews during the Holocaust.

Life Diana Dumitru earned a Bachelor of Arts in history and psychology, and a PhD in history from the Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University of Moldova. She is considered the leading scholar of the fate of Bessarabia's and Bukovina's Jews during the Holocaust.

Dumitru has received a number of fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellowship. She was the Rosenzweig Family Fellow at the Mandel Centre of the United States Holocaust Museum in 2005/06, where she conducted research on the Holocaust in the areas of Bessarabia and Transnistria. In 2019 Dumitru was a research fellow at the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies in Vienna, where she studied Soviet society and the aftermath of the Holocaust. As of 2025, Dumitru is the Ion Ratiu Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University.

Dumitru has authored two books. She co-wrote a Holocaust survivor memoir, Across the Rivers of Memory, published in 2015, with Felicia Carmelly. Her second book, The State, Antisemitism and the Collaboration in the Holocaust. The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Dumitru is a member of the advisory board of the EU project European Holocaust Research Infrastructure.