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Obstacles to the Integration of the Holocaust into Post-Communist East European Historical Narratives
Author(s): Himka, John-Paul
Date: 2008
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Denial, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: Factors that have made it difficult for post-communist East European societies to integrate the Holocaust into their historical cultures include the communist heritage, which downplayed the specifically Jewish Holocaust; sensitivity to charges that a nation was complicit in the murder of the Jews; the framing of East European histories as national narratives into which it is difficult to incorporate the experience of other nations; the feeling that Jewish suffering is recognized, while that of other East Europeans is not; the positive re-evaluation of the interwar and wartime politics and culture after the collapse of communism; the survival and revival of anti-Semitism, with new inputs from the Middle East and from Western Holocaust deniers; the construction in the West of the Holocaust as a centrepiece of twentieth-century history; the influence of East European diasporas; the embedment of the discourse on the Holocaust in the political divide between nativists and Westernizers; the deployment of accusations of Holocaust collaboration as an instrument of foreign policy; and debate over the restitution of confiscated Jewish property. Often these factors come together into a reinforcing discursive structure. The essay’s conclusion suggests how to overcome these obstacles to the integration of the Holocaust into East European histories.
The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Ukraine
Author(s): Himka, John-Paul
Editor(s): Himka, John-Paul; Michlic, Joanna Beata
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust, Post-1989, Holocaust Commemoration
Debates in Ukraine over nationalist involvement in the Holocaust, 2004–2008
Author(s): Himka, John-Paul
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Memory
Abstract: The article concerns debate about the memory of the Holocaust in Ukraine. It covers the period 2004–2008.