Paradise Lost? Postwar Memory of Polish Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union
The vast majority of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust owed their survival to their flight or deportation to the Soviet Union. Yet, their story figured little in early postwar commemoration in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and in survivor communities in Poland and elsewhere. Using new...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-399 |
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| Summary: | The vast majority of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust owed their survival to their flight or deportation to the Soviet Union. Yet, their story figured little in early postwar commemoration in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and in survivor communities in Poland and elsewhere. Using new source material to provide an internal perspective on these communities, the authors argue that the downplaying of the Soviet experience in public memory was politically and ideologically motivated and was determined by the larger context of postwar politics. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq055 |