We pledge, as if it was the Highest Sanctum, to preserve the memory": Sovetish Heymland, facets of Holocaust commemoration in the Soviet Union and the Cold War
Title" We pledge, as if it was the Highest Sanctum, to preserve the memory": Sovetish Heymland, facets of Holocaust commemoration in the Soviet Union and the Cold War
Author
Call number940.5318072/87
Object number11890k
Place of publicationBudapest, Hungary
PublisherCentral European University Press
Year of publication
2022
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Growing in the shadow of antifascism: remembering the Holocaust in state-socialist Eastern Europe' pp253-274
Description
Close reading allows for several conclusions to be drawn regarding Holocaust memory as represented in Sovetish Heymland. A variety of ritual Holocaust commemoration activities in different part of the Soviet Union existed. While the Soviet war cult was intended to subsume the Holocaust - this same cult reinforced a distinct way of commemorating the specifically Jewish catastrophe and experience among Soviet Yiddish speakers