A great civic and scientific duty of our historiography". Czech historians and the Holocaust in the 1970s and 1980s

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.