Introduction
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Tobias Wals
Nowhere in Europe was the Holocaust as visible as in the Soviet Union, and nowhere was its memory so systematically silenced. The site of Babyn Yar is the very embodiment of this grim legacy: a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv where the German occupiers murdered tens of thousands of Jews in broad daylight, and where the Soviets tried to erase the past by turning the mass graves into a city park. Only after the fall of the Soviet Union could the Holocaust be remembered in its – sometimes-disturbing – complexities in Kyiv, and in the rest of Ukraine. Since then, a lively, at times volatile remembrance culture has developed, which differs from the European one in many ways. It has its own dividing lines and sensitivities, and it often leaves observers puzzled.
To address the transformation of Holocaust remembrance, and its particular dynamic in Ukraine, the newly founded journal, Eastern European Holocaust Studies (EEHS) is inviting scholars and experts from East, West, South and North to share their views in an academic open forum. Several scholars have been requested to respond a question regarding an aspect of Holocaust memory, as the start of an international professional dialogue. Readers are invited to offer their own take if they feel they could contribute to any of these questions and beyond.
This section of the journal, the “Open Forum” is edited by Tobias Wals (wals@ifz-muenchen.de) and Andrea Pető (petoa@ceu.edu). Please, feel free to contact us if you wish to share your ideas.
© 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction
- Editorial Introduction
- Open Forum, edited by Tobias Wals, Andrea Petö
- Introduction
- Should There Be One Universal Narrative for Remembering the Holocaust?
- Should There Be One Universal Narrative for Remembering the Holocaust? On a Universal Narrative of the Holocaust and Remembering the Past in Ukraine
- Is Digitalization a Blessing or a Curse for Holocaust Memorialization?
- Who Are the Memory Owners of Memorial Sites? The Question of Memorial Ownership and the Case of Babyn Yar
- How Does Jewish Identity Relate to Modern-Day Ukrainian Identity? Beyond the Refrain of “Do not Divide the Dead”: Othering the Jews as a Technology of Power in the Soviet Union
- How Does Jewish Identity Relate to Modern-Day Ukrainian Identity?
- Perspectives
- A Holocaust Researcher and the War
- Open Forum
- Russian War, Neocolonialism and Holocaust Studies in Ukraine
- Roundtable
- “Never Again!” Roundtable Organized by Eastern European Holocaust Studies and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre
- Interview
- Interview with Karen Jungblut
- Dossier: The Holocaust in Ukraine: Literary Representation, edited by Helena Duffy
- The Holocaust in Ukraine: Literary Representations
- Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter (2017) and the Literary Construction of Ukraine
- Ukrainians in French Holocaust Literature: Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky and Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
- On the Journey Through Ukraine: Representations of the Holocaust in Friedrich Gorenstein’s Traveling Companions
- Is It Right to Talk About the Holocaust in Ukraine Now? An Interview with Jonathan Littell, the Author of The Kindly Ones
- Research Articles
- Unwelcome Return Home: Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Housing Problem in Post-War Kyiv
- Forced Labor Camps for Jews in Reichskommissariat Ukraine: The Exploitation of Jewish Labor within the Holocaust in the East
- More than Meets the Eye – The Intricate Relationship between Selfies at Holocaust Memorial Sites and Their Subsequent Shaming
- Sources, edited by Andrea Löw, Marta Havryshko
- Eyewitness Account of the Nazi Occupation in the South of Ukraine: Diary of a Kherson Resident
- Historiography, edited by Jan Lanicek
- Overview of the Recent Historiography
- Post-Holocaust Transitional Justice in Hungary – Approaches, Disputes, and Debates
- Romania: Historiography on Holocaust and Postwar Justice Studies
- Transitional Justice and the Holocaust in Poland
- Reviews, edited by Elenore Lappin-Eppel, Katarzyna Liszka
- Through the Distorted Mirror. Natalia Romik’s “Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival”
- Sliwa, Joanna. 2021. Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 218 pp. ISBN 978-1-978822-94-8
- Albert Venger, ed. Stalindorfs’kyi Raion: Dokumenty i Materialy, Kyiv: Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Charity, 2021, 340 p.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Introduction
- Editorial Introduction
- Open Forum, edited by Tobias Wals, Andrea Petö
- Introduction
- Should There Be One Universal Narrative for Remembering the Holocaust?
- Should There Be One Universal Narrative for Remembering the Holocaust? On a Universal Narrative of the Holocaust and Remembering the Past in Ukraine
- Is Digitalization a Blessing or a Curse for Holocaust Memorialization?
- Who Are the Memory Owners of Memorial Sites? The Question of Memorial Ownership and the Case of Babyn Yar
- How Does Jewish Identity Relate to Modern-Day Ukrainian Identity? Beyond the Refrain of “Do not Divide the Dead”: Othering the Jews as a Technology of Power in the Soviet Union
- How Does Jewish Identity Relate to Modern-Day Ukrainian Identity?
- Perspectives
- A Holocaust Researcher and the War
- Open Forum
- Russian War, Neocolonialism and Holocaust Studies in Ukraine
- Roundtable
- “Never Again!” Roundtable Organized by Eastern European Holocaust Studies and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre
- Interview
- Interview with Karen Jungblut
- Dossier: The Holocaust in Ukraine: Literary Representation, edited by Helena Duffy
- The Holocaust in Ukraine: Literary Representations
- Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter (2017) and the Literary Construction of Ukraine
- Ukrainians in French Holocaust Literature: Piotr Rawicz’s Blood from the Sky and Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
- On the Journey Through Ukraine: Representations of the Holocaust in Friedrich Gorenstein’s Traveling Companions
- Is It Right to Talk About the Holocaust in Ukraine Now? An Interview with Jonathan Littell, the Author of The Kindly Ones
- Research Articles
- Unwelcome Return Home: Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Housing Problem in Post-War Kyiv
- Forced Labor Camps for Jews in Reichskommissariat Ukraine: The Exploitation of Jewish Labor within the Holocaust in the East
- More than Meets the Eye – The Intricate Relationship between Selfies at Holocaust Memorial Sites and Their Subsequent Shaming
- Sources, edited by Andrea Löw, Marta Havryshko
- Eyewitness Account of the Nazi Occupation in the South of Ukraine: Diary of a Kherson Resident
- Historiography, edited by Jan Lanicek
- Overview of the Recent Historiography
- Post-Holocaust Transitional Justice in Hungary – Approaches, Disputes, and Debates
- Romania: Historiography on Holocaust and Postwar Justice Studies
- Transitional Justice and the Holocaust in Poland
- Reviews, edited by Elenore Lappin-Eppel, Katarzyna Liszka
- Through the Distorted Mirror. Natalia Romik’s “Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival”
- Sliwa, Joanna. 2021. Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 218 pp. ISBN 978-1-978822-94-8
- Albert Venger, ed. Stalindorfs’kyi Raion: Dokumenty i Materialy, Kyiv: Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Charity, 2021, 340 p.
