Making sense of the Holocaust in socialist Eastern Europe

The contributions raise several important points for understanding Holocaust memory in in Eastern Europe. First, they underscore the necessity to approach Holocaust memory and historiography as embedded in their political and social context, beyond ideological narrative. Second, the contributions highlight the power of individual and local initiatives as well as the limits of communist repression in the formation of Holocaust memory. Third, they underscore the necessity to consider the official narrative franework of the war and Holocaust memory as interacting not competing memories. Finally, the works in this volume also point to the need to further explore how Cold War confrontation affected the emergence of Holocaust memory.