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

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