ISBN:
9783110688993
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 357 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
SpatioTemporality 11
Series Statement:
RaumZeitlichkeit
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Keywords:
HISTORY / Holocaust
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Holocaust in the North Caucasus -- 3 (Re)writing Holocaust Memory in Official Soviet Wartime Sources -- 4 Memorial Sites: Re-framing Holocaust Memory -- 5 Depicting Jewish Fates: Artistic Responses to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus -- 6 Reifying Memory? Representations of North Caucasus Holocaust History in Museum Collections -- 7 We Don’t Need No . . . Holocaust Education? -- 8 Revisiting Experience: Personal Narratives of the Holocaust in the North Caucasus -- 9 Conclusion. Key Features of the Holocaust Memory Dispositif -- Bibliography -- Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Index
Abstract:
The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and historians together with the members of Jewish communities preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110688993
URL:
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