Holocaust Memory and the Cold War

Remembering across the Iron Curtain
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-067241-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 323 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Rethinking the Cold War

Even before World War II had ended, survivors, historians, writers, and artists tried to make sense of the Holocaust. To do so, they relied on belief systems and narratives that, as the bloc confrontation intensified, were increasingly shaped by Cold War thinking. Foregrounding the Cold War’s role in shaping Holocaust memory, this book highlights how the global conflict between East and West influenced research, legal proceedings, and collective as well as individual memories of the murder of European Jews. Contributions focusing on different parts of the world reveal commonalities, differences, and entanglements between Eastern and Western memories of the Holocaust. Examining Holocaust memory from various disciplinary perspectives, the authors highlight the many ways in which scholars, writers, artists, and survivors both countered and contributed to dominant narratives shaped by oppositional ideological stances. While such distinct ideological positions often mattered greatly, at other times a shared interest in bringing perpetrators to justice, commemorating victims, and providing testimony to the atrocities committed against Europe’s Jews led to cooperation and exchange across the Iron Curtain.

Zielgruppe

Historians of the Cold War, Jewish Studies Scholars, Public Histo

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koch, Anna

Stach, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Koch, University College, London, UK; Stephan Stach, Robert Havemann Society – Archive of the GDR Opposition, Berlin, Germany.