Examines the official historiography of the period, aiming to complicate the conventional narrative and challenge the idea that the Holocaust was a “taboo” in “normalized” Czechoslovakia. A case study on the research of Holocaust survivor, communist journalist, and historian Miroslav Kárný in the 1970s and 1980s who left behind a considerable amount of publications and a large correspondence with Holocaust survivors and historians from Czechoslovakia and abroad reveals evidence of Holocaust research in state-socialist Czechoslovakia.