Paradise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
TitreParadise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
Auteur
Call numberS940.5318/004
N° d'objet03469ji
Lieu de publicationNew York, New York, United States
Année de publication
2010
Dimensionspp373-399
MatérielArticle
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