Paradise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Paradise lost? Postwar memory of Polish Jewish survival in the Soviet Union
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberS940.5318/004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03469ji
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Oxford University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2010
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]pp373-399
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust and Genocide Studies' Volume 24, Number 3, Winter 2010 pp373-399
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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