Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyrigth Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Historiography -- Chapter 1: Edition of Documents from the Ringelblum Archive -- Political Censorship -- Editorial Changes as Internal Censorship? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: "A Great Civic and Scientific Duty of Our Historiography" -- Miroslav Kárný -- Holocaust Witness and Scholar -- Class Struggle and Imperialism, or the Persecution and Murder of the Jews? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Conflicted Identities of Helmut Eschwege -- Conclusion -- Part Two: Sites of Memory -- Chapter 4: Parallel Memories? -- Mutually Exclusive Memories? -- Screaming Silences? Memorialization of World War IIin Public Spaces -- Marginalized Memory? Martyr Memorial Servicesin the Jewish Community -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Holocaust Narrative(s) in Soviet Lithuania -- Agency and Power: Creating the Ninth Fort Museum -- Creation of a Commemorative Idiom -- Medialization of the Ninth Fort as a Site of Memoryin Soviet Lithuania: -- Conclusions -- Post Scriptum: Changes in the Memorialization in the 1980s -- Chapter 6: Memory Incarnate: Jewish Sites in Communist Polandand the Perception of the Shoah -- "The Ground is Burning Beneath My Feet" -- New Legal Framework -- Such Profanation is Unacceptable -- Open Door to the Abyss -- A Turning Point -- The Final Years -- Part Three: Artistic Representations -- Chapter 7: Writing a Soviet Holocaust Novel -- Literature and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union:The Example of Rybakov -- Heavy Sand: Finding Facts and Making Use of Soviet Realist Templates -- Heavy Sand: The Soviet Holocaust Narrative and Its Discontents -- Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the Holocaust in the USSR.