Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Запорожские еврейские чтения
Angaben zur Quelle:
1 (1998) 177-182
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Contends that the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine is misrepresented in official Ukrainian historiography, and that the conception is utterly primitive. Historians of World War II either maintain silence about the Jewish tragedy, or explain its wide scope as due to Jewish passivity and lack of a Jewish state in the war years. The author contends that an honest historian must, first of all, conclude that it was the Ukrainian authorities who bear responsibility for their failure to organize the evacuation of Jews, knowing that they would be the Nazis’ primary victims; that non-Jews, and especially nationalist organizations, collaborated with the Nazis in the extermination of Jews; and that in present-day Ukraine, the issue of the Holocaust has not been appraised properly, and antisemitism has not been condemned.
Note:
Appeared previously in "Dvadtsat Dva" 106 (1997) 173-181.
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