Growing in the Shadow of Antifascism

Dr. Kata Bohus is senior research advisor at the University of Tromsø Dr. Peter Hallama is research fellow at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Stephan Stach is a historian at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, Leipzig.

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Acknowledgements


Introduction

Kata Bohus, Peter Hallama, Stephan Stach


PART I. Historiography

Edition of Documents from the Ringelblum Archive (the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto) in Stalinist Poland

Katarzyna Person, Agnieszka Żółkiewska

“A Great Civic and Scientific Duty of Our Historiography.” Czech Historians and the Holocaust in the 1970s and 1980s

Peter Hallama

The Conflicted Identities of Helmut Eschwege: Communist, Jew and Historian of the Holocaust in the German Democratic Republic

Benjamin Lapp


PART II. Sites of Memory

Parallel Memories? Public Memorialization of the Antifascist Struggle and Martyr Memorial Services in the Hungarian Jewish Community during Early Communism

Kata Bohus

Holocaust Narrative(s) in Soviet Holocaust Narrative(s) in Soviet Lithuania: The Case of the Ninth Fort Museum in Kaunas

Gintarė Malinauskaitė

Memory Incarnate: Jewish Sites in Communist Poland and the Perception of the Shoah

Yechiel Weizman


PART III. Artistic Representations

Toward a Soviet Holocaust Novel: Traumatic Memory and Socialist Realist Aesthetics in Anatolii Rybakov’s Heavy Sand

Anja Tippner

Commissioned Memory. Official Representations of the Holocaust in Hungarian Art (1955–1965)

Daniel Véri

Towards a Shared Memory? The Hungarian Holocaust in Mass-Market Socialist Literature, 1956-1970

Richard S. Esbenshade


PART IV. Media and Public Debate

Distrusting the Parks: Heinz Knobloch’s Journalism and the Memory of the Shoah in the GDR

Alexander Walther

‘We Pledge, as if It was the Highest Sanctum, to Preserve the Memory.’ Sovetish Heymland, Facets of Holocaust Commemoration in the Soviet Union and the Cold War

Miriam Schulz

“The Jewish Diaries […] Undergo One Edition after the Other.” Early Polish Holocaust Documentation, East German Anti-Fascism and the Emergence of Holocaust Memory in Socialism

Stephan Stach


Conclusion

Making Sense of the Holocaust in Socialist Eastern Europe

Audrey Kichelewski


Contributors