Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
נתיב; כתב עת למחשבה מדינית, חברה ותרבות
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,19 (תשסו) 3-9
Keywords:
Holocaust denial
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism
;
Antisemitism
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Discusses Holocaust denial and antisemitism in the Baltic States, focusing on Lithuania. Notes that 94% of the Jews in the Baltic States were killed and that disinformation concerning the fate of the Jews was spread already during the war. Lithuanian history books published immediately after the war did not mention Jews at all. In the 1960s-70s there were ca. 20 publications on the fate of the Jews, but these were criticized by the Soviet regime. Immigrants from the Baltic States in Western countries first denied that there had been collaboration with the Nazis, and then promulgated the myth that Jews were killed by local residents because they had supported the Soviet occupation in 1939. After achieving independence in 1990, the Baltic countries compared the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust to their own suffering under the Soviets, and Lithuania rehabilitated all Nazi collaborators who had been tried by the Soviets. There was a change in 1995, when the Lithuanian Sejm condemned antisemitism and President Algirdas Brazauskas apologized, before the Israeli Knesset, for Lithuanian collaboration in the Holocaust. However, he was strongly criticized at home and his speech caused an increase in antisemitic incidents.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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