Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations | viii Preface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction | 1 john-paul himka & joanna beata michlic 1. “Our Conscience Is Clean”: Albanian Elites and the Memory of the Holocaust in Postsocialist Albania | 25 daniel perez 2. The Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus | 59 per anders rudling 3. Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina | 83 francine friedman 4. Debating the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War II | 108 joseph benatov 5. Representations of the Holocaust and Historical Debates in Croatia since 1989 | 131 mark biondich 6. The Sheep of Lidice: The Holocaust and the Construction of Czech National History | 166 michal frankl 7. Victim of History: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia | 195 anton weiss-wendt 8. Holocaust Remembrance in the German Democratic Republic— and Beyond | 223 peter monteath 9. The Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Hungary | 261 Part 1: The Politics of Holocaust Memory | 261 paul hanebrink Part 2: Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust | 292 catherine portuges 10. The Transformation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia | 300 bella zisere 11. Conflicting Memories: The Reception of the Holocaust in Lithuania | 319 saulius sužiedƠlis & šarnjnas liekis 12. The Combined Legacies of the “Jewish Question” and the “Macedonian Question” | 352 holly case 13. Public Discourses on the Holocaust in Moldova: Justification, Instrumentalization, and Mourning | 377 vladimir solonari 14. The Memory of the Holocaust in Post-1989 Poland: Renewal—Its Accomplishments and Its Powerlessness | 403 joanna beata michlic & małgorzata melchior 15. Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania | 451 felicia waldman & mihai chioveanu 16. The Reception of the Holocaust in Russia: Silence, Conspiracy, and Glimpses of Light | 487 klas-göran karlsson 17. Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Holocaust Memory in Serbia since the Late 1980s | 516 jovan byford 18. The “Unmasterable Past”? The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia | 549 nina pauloviýová 19. On the Periphery: Jews, Slovenes, and the Memory of the Holocaust | 591 gregor joseph kranjc 20. The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Ukraine | 626 john-paul himka Conclusion | 663 omer bartov Contributors | 695 Index | 705 ...