Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain

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Holocaust Memory and the Cold War

Remembering across the Iron Curtain

Edited by: Anna Koch and Stephan Stach
Funded by: University College London and Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 13 | Rethinking the Cold War

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

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„[D]er hervorragende Band [hat] das Potenzial, zu einem Umdenken sowohl innerhalb der Cold War Studies als auch im Bereich der Holocaust Studies beizutragen: Eindringlich wird nachgewiesen, dass über die Blockgrenzen hinweg ein Wissenstransfer zwischen Ost und West stattfand. [...] Der Band sei allen zur Lektüre empfohlen, die sich für eine Verflechtungsgeschichte des Holocaust-Gedenkens in Zeiten des Kalten Krieges interessieren.“ – Daniel Schuch, HSozKult, 31.01.2025

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
Introduction Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering across the Iron Curtain Anna Koch and Stephan Stach Open Access Download PDF	1
The New York Black Book of 1946: A United Jewish Response to Nazi Crimes Elisabeth Gallas Open Access Download PDF	23
Israeli Holocaust Memory and the Cold War Boaz Cohen Open Access Download PDF	51
“The Communist Schism in Jewish Life”: Transnational Politics and Holocaust Commemorations among Parisian Jews during the Cold War Simon Perego Open Access Download PDF	73
The Cold War and Holocaust Memorialization in Soviet Publications of the 1960s Arkadi Zeltser Open Access Download PDF	93
Writing Holocaust History across the Iron Curtain: Alberto Nirenstein’s A Tower from the Enemy / Ricorda cosa ti ha fatto Amalek Anna Koch and Stephan Stach Open Access Download PDF	119
East-West Encounters at the Adolf-Heinz Beckerle Trial (1967–1968): How Holocaust Knowledge and Remembrance Went Global Nadège Ragaru Open Access Download PDF	147
Accountability and the Cold War: The Eichmann Trial and Holocaust Representation in the Soviet Union Vanessa Voisin Open Access Download PDF	173
Moral Universalism in the East: Anti-Fascist Humanism and the Memory of the Holocaust in Zoltán Fábri’s Film Late Season (1967) Máté Zombory Open Access Download PDF	201
A Tableau of a Crime Taking Shape under the Viewer’s Gaze: The Trajectories of Yosef Kuzkovski’s The Last Way (1944–1970) Irina Tcherneva Open Access Download PDF	223
The West German View of the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Union: The Case of Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955–1960 Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska Open Access Download PDF	255
“The Second Death”: Günther Andersʼ Travels to Postwar Berlin Anna Pollmann Open Access Download PDF	275
Fighting Nazis and Confronting the Past: The German Democratic Republic and the National Committee against Nazis in the United States Jonathan Kaplan Open Access Download PDF	293
Contributor Biographies Open Access Download PDF	315
Index Open Access Download PDF	319

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eBook published on:

October 21, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783110672657

Hardcover published on:

October 21, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110672411

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

323

Illustrations:

12

Coloured Illustrations:

7

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672657

eBook ISBN: 9783110672657

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110672411

Keywords for this book

Holocaust; Cod War; memory; Israel; antisemitism; Jews; racism

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

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