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Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory

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The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little...
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  • 26 October 2020
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The main objective of the book is to allocate the grass roots initiatives of remembering the Holocaust victims in a particular region of Russia which has a very diverse ethnic structure and little presence of Jews at the same time. It aims to find out how such individual initiatives correspond to the official Russian hero-orientated concept of remembering the Second World war with almost no attention to the memory of war victims, including Holocaust victims. North Caucasus became the last address of thousands of Soviet Jews, both evacuees and locals. While there was almost no attention paid to the Holocaust victims in the official Soviet propaganda in the postwar period, local activists and historians together with the members of Jewish communities preserved Holocaust memory by installing small obelisks at the killing sites, writing novels and making documentaries, teaching about the Holocaust at schools and making small thematic exhibitions in the local and school museums. Individual types of grass roots activities in the region on remembering Holocaust victims are analyzed in each chapter of the book.

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Price: $141.99
Pages: 369
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Publication Date: 26 October 2020
ISBN: 9783110688863
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS003000 HISTORY / Asia / General, HIS027100 HISTORY / Military / World War II, HIS032000 HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HIS037070 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HIS037080 HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, SCI000000 SCIENCE / General
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Irina Rebrova, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin.