Holocaust memory and the Cold War

• Titel: Holocaust memory and the Cold War
• Titelzusatz: remembering across the iron curtain
• Mitwirkende: Koch, Anna [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Stach, Stephan [HerausgeberIn]
• Institutionen: De Gruyter Oldenbourg [Verlag]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Anna Koch and Stephan Stach
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: VIII, 323 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm x 15.5 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Rethinking the Cold War ; Volume 13
• ISBN: 978-3-11-067241-1
• ISBN: 3-11-067241-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ost-West-Konflikt / (s)Judenvernichtung / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis / (z)Geschichte
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ost-West-Konflikt / (s)Judenvernichtung / (s)Kollektives Gedächtnis / (z)Geschichte
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Holocaust memory and the Cold War. - Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 323 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: NQ 5830
• Sach-SW: HIS037100
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Holocaust
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Social History
• Sach-SW: Holocaust
• Sach-SW: Kalte Kriege und Stellvertreterkonflikte
• Sach-SW: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Sach-SW: The Cold War
• Sach-SW: The Holocaust
• Zeit-SW: Periode des Kalten Krieges (ca. 1945 bis ca. 1990)
• Zeit-SW: c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)
• K10plus-PPN: 1884522467

Abstract

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