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The International Relations of Holocaust Memory
Author(s): Subotić, Jelena
Editor(s): Kopstein, Jeffrey S.; Subotić, Jelena; Welch, Susan
Date: 2023
Topics: Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Nationalism, National Identity, International Relations, Memory, Post-1989
Remembering Past Atrocities: Good or Bad for Attitudes toward Minorities?
Author(s): Charnysh, Volha
Editor(s): Kopstein, Jeffrey S.; Subotić, Jelena; Welch, Susan
Date: 2023
Topics: Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Nationalism, National Identity, Memory, Surveys
Abstract: Discrediting racial hatred and political extremism is one of the explicit aims of commemorating the Holocaust. And yet, remembering the difficult past does not always produce the intended consequences because political actors can challenge the narrative to advance their goals. In particular, right-wing populist movements often counter historical accounts of past atrocities in potentially damaging ways by portraying their own nations as victims rather than perpetrators. The chapter presents the results of an online survey experiment in Poland on how contestation of the Holocaust narrative affects xenophobic and exclusionist views. I find that while uncontested narratives about ingroup wrongdoing (massacre of Jews by Poles in Jedwabne) can reduce ethnocentric beliefs, countering the perpetrator narratives with a victimhood story (massacre of Poles by Ukrainians in Volhynia) weakens this effect and also lowers support for minority rights. I also find that the Holocaust narrative, contested or uncontested, does not affect anti-Semitic or pluralist attitudes.
Legitimating Myths and the Holocaust in Postsocialist States
Author(s): Gitelman, Zvi
Editor(s): Kopstein, Jeffrey S.; Subotić, Jelena; Welch, Susan
Date: 2023
Topics: Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Nationalism, National Identity, Memory, Post-1989