Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Голокост i сучаснiсть
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 〈2〉 (2007) 9-30
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941
Abstract:
Immediately after World War II, Soviet ideologues advocated silence regarding the mass murder of Jews during the war. In the late 1940s-early 1950s the Ukrainian authorities forbade erection of monuments to the Jewish victims in any place except Jewish cemeteries. All other activities aimed at commemorating the Jewish victims were banned. This policy created some problems for the ideological authorities, e.g. how to explain the abrupt decrease in the Jewish population in Ukraine, or in a specific locale, after the war, and especially problems arising from contacts with public opinion in the West. Dwells on the campaign waged in Kiev from the late 1950s-early 1980s to find an appropriate way to commemorate the mass murder of Jews in Babii Yar. The authorities assessed these demands as manifestations of "Jewish nationalism" or Zionism. However, in the 1970s, and especially in the 1980s, the necessity of dialogue with the West, in particular the astonishment expressed by foreigners visiting Kiev on the lack of a memorial to the Jews murdered at Babii Yar, forced Ukrainian authorities to look for a compromise between the "internationalist" approach in commemoration of World War II and the demands of Western public opinion.
Note:
With an English summary.
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