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Holocaust Memory and the Cold War

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The peer-reviewed series offers books that illuminate the multifaceted history of the Cold War in both its European and Global dimensions, across and beyond the Iron Curtain. It focuses on the inte...
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  • 21 October 2024
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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.

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Price: $110.99
Pages: 331
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Publication Date: 21 October 2024
ISBN: 9783110672411
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS035000 HISTORY / Study & Teaching, HIS043000 HISTORY / Holocaust
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Anna Koch, University College, London, UK; Stephan Stach, Robert Havemann Society – Archive of the GDR Opposition, Berlin, Germany.