Volha Charnysh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research focuses on comparative political behavior, historical political economy, and ethnic politics, investigating pathways linking major historical events to contemporary political behavior.  Across three papers, she demonstrates that anti-Semitism in some parts of Poland traces its origins to the intergroup competition in the interwar period and continues to be instrumentalized by political elites today; that post-WWII displacement in Poland had restructured patterns of connectivity between people changing their reliance on the state and the market for service provision following the 1989 transition; and that living next to a Nazi concentration camp during WWII has enhanced material wealth, creating incentives to vote for right-wing parties decades later.