Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (1997) 71-80
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
In 1946, Soviet authorities in Belorussia decided not to allow the erection of a memorial listing the names of Jewish victims of the Germans in the district of Cherven, a move which was organized by Vladimir Isaakovich Fundator (1903-1986), inventor of the Soviet T-34 tank which had been a key instrument in the Russian defeat of Germany. This refusal was indicative of the Soviet attitude toward the Holocaust which obscured its reality, refused to acknowledge the contribution of Jews to the victory over Germany, and harassed Jews as "rootless cosmopolitans" and "bourgeois nationalists." The Belorussian authorities were acting on orders from Moscow. In 1970 a standard granite monument was erected where the Jews of Cherven had been slaughtered. Its inscription stated that 2,000 Soviet citizens were killed there by German fascist invaders.
DOI:
10.1080/13501679708577847
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