Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism : : Remembering the Holocaust in State-Socialist Eastern Europe.

• Author: Bohus, Kata.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hallama, Peter.; Stach, Stephan.
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 pages)

Table of Contents

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.

Chapter 8: Commissioned Memory: Official Representationsof the Holocaust in Hungarian Art -- Introduction: Official Memory Politics and State Funded Projects -- The Hungarian Memorial in Mauthausen -- Victors vs. Victims: A Non-Commissioned Hungarian Plan -- Victors vs. Victims: The Yugoslav Memorial -- 1965, Auschwitz: The Permanent Hungarian Exhibition -- 1965, Hungarian National Gallery -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Towards a Shared Memory? The Hungarian Holocaustin Mass-Market Socialist Literature, 1956-1970* -- The Kádárist Cultural Landscape -- Jews and Non-Jews: Responsibility and Guilt -- Narrative Strategies -- Fate and Memory -- Official Criticism and the Issue of Reception -- Conclusions: Towards a Shared Holocaust Memory? -- Part Four: Media and Public Debate -- Chapter 10: Distrusting the Parks: Heinz Knobloch's Journalismand the Memory of the Shoah in the GDR -- Heinz Knobloch -- Herr Moses in Berlin -- Meine liebste Mathilde -- Der beherzte Reviervorsteher -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11: "We Pledge, as if It Was the Highest Sanctum, to Preservethe Memory": Sovetish Heymland, Facets ofHolocaust Commemoration in the Soviet Union and theCold War -- Yiddish in Postwar Soviet Union -- Towards a Straightening of the Lopsided Historical Record -- A Monument over Babyn Yar -- Commemoration Activities in Popervāle, Latvia -- Commemoration Activities in Medzhybizh, Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: "The Jewish Diaries . . . Undergo One Edition after theOther": Early Polish Holocaust Documentation, EastGerman Antifascism, and the Emergence of HolocaustMemory in Socialism -- The Jewish Historical Institute and Antifascist Literature in the GDR -- The Three Books -- The Censors' Verdict on the Polish Books -- The Intended Role of the Books in the East GermanPress Debate and their Effect -- The Perception of the Books.

Diffusion of Knowledge into Artistic, Documentary, and Educational Projects -- Conclusion -- Conclusions -- Making Sense of the Holocaust in Socialist EasternEurope -- Discursive Frameworks for Addressing the Holocaust -- Eastern Europe in its Diversity -- Making Sense of the Holocaust with Agency -- Demarginalizing Eastern Europe -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back cover.