Post-Soviet Remembrance of the Holocaust and National Memories of the Second World War in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania

Rohdewald, Stefan

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“…A seemingly competitive process of memorialisation risks perpetuating specific and sectional memories in ways that are defensive and antagonistic, rather than enlightening or reconciliatory (cf. Rohdewald 2008). Death camps as memorials might appear to possess a quasi-sacred character that should check this descent into divisive sectionalism.…”

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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Purvis

Atkinson

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of the local civic calendar of events within wider currents of academic and political revisionism affecting the upper Adriatic. The paper complements existing studies of former Nazi camps as memorial sites through attention to a distinctive geographical and political context, and by exploring the Risiera as an increasingly problematic site of performance.

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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Purvis

Atkinson

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Since the Shoah was not a part of official Soviet memory, it is hardly surprising that it was not passed on the level of the family or the local communityespecially because Jews were no longer a part of the latter and could not demand remembrance. Thus, Ukrainian Jews found themselves not only on the geographical and political peripheries of the Holocaust, but also on the peripheries of memories of the Shoah, and memory in Ukraine in general (Rohdewald 2008).…”

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Managing the difficult past: Ukrainian collective memory and public debates on history

Wylegała

2017

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This article analyzes the status of difficult historic events in Ukrainian collective memory. Difficult elements of collective memory are defined as those which divide society on basic matters, such as identity and national cohesion, and events which are being actively forgotten because of the role of Ukrainians as perpetrators. Three such issues were analyzed: World War II and the role of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the Holocaust, and the ethnic purge of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943–1945. Utilizing data from quantitative and qualitative studies, the author showcases the significance of these issues for contemporary Ukrainian identity and Ukraine's relations with its neighbors. In particular, the evaluation of World War II and the role of the UPA in Ukrainian history polarizes Ukrainian society to a great degree. At the same time, this element of national history is used to construct a common, anti-Russian identity. The difficulty of relating to the memory of the Holocaust and the ethnic purge in Volhynia is of a different character. These events are problematic for Ukrainian collective memory because they demand a painful settling of accounts with the past. At present, only Ukrainian elites are willing to work on these subjects, and only to a limited degree, while the common consciousness either denies or ignores them altogether.

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“…And yet the distinct histories of different cultures play a critical role in the direction that memory takes. For example, Rohdewald (2008) compared the trajectories of remembrance in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania and found three distinct approaches, which are connected to the fact that ''Lithuania totally condemns its communist past (East-Central Europe), Ukraine is split on this question, and Russia does not ask questions about it (Eastern Europe in its narrow sense)'' (p. 174). Further, he notes, Russia latches onto victory against the Nazis as one of the few positives it can take from the Soviet period, a commemoration not challenged by the Holocaust, which remains secondary in its consideration, although conspiracy theorists too often hold Jews responsible for a Russian Holocaust (p. 175).…”

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Stevick

Gross

2010

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This article explores questions of the politics of knowledge and epistemology in relation to Holocaust education. It argues that, since knowledge is not neutral, we must be attentive to the role of ideologies in the selection and presentation of knowledge concerning the Holocaust in textbooks, in teaching, and in the media. The construction of knowledge about the Holocaust in classrooms is a relational process of meaning-making in which the cultures, perspectives and experiences of all involved come into play. For these reasons, the authors argue, Holocaust education should be considered in light of other fundamental questions, including the relationship of history, memory and identity in order to understand its actual and potential role in fostering democratic citizenship.Keywords Holocaust education Á Epistemology Á HistoryThe aim of this article is to analyze the role of epistemology within the scholarship on Holocaust education. Epistemology deals with questions of what knowledge is, what counts as knowledge, the sources of knowledge, the different kinds of knowledge, and what we can know, or the boundaries of knowledge (Wiersma and Jurs 2009). We argue that Holocaust education, which can function as a pillar of civic education, should engage with epistemological questions and their implications for teaching and learning about the Holocaust.Note: The guest-editors wish to thank Simona Popa, for all the work finding and working with reviewers, and the many hundreds of emails and hours that were involved in seeing this project through; Brigitte Deluermoz, for her work with the manuscripts; Clementina Acedo for supporting this project; the dozens of reviewers who spent hundreds of hours carefully vetting and improving the contributions, and everyone who contributed a manuscript, whether ultimately accepted or not.

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Post-Soviet Remembrance of the Holocaust and National Memories of the Second World War in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania

Cited by 15 publications

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Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba death camp, Trieste

Managing the difficult past: Ukrainian collective memory and public debates on history

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