Paradise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
TitleParadise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
Author
Call numberS940.5318/004
Object number03469ji
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
Year of publication
2010
Dimensionspp373-399
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust and Genocide Studies' Volume 24, Number 3, Winter 2010 pp373-399
Description
The vast majority of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust owed their survival to their flight or deportation to the Soviet Union, yet this was not mentioned in early postwar commemmoration in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany. Argues that the downplaying of the Soviet experience in public memory was politically and ideologically motivated and was determined by the larger context of postwar politics