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Holocaust in the East, The - Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (Paperback)
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Holocaust in the East, The - Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (Paperback)
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire
to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities
committed against the Jewish population of Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union during World War II is particularly remarkable given
the scholarly and popular interest in the war. It, too, has many
causes--of which antisemitism, the most striking, is only one.
When, on July 10, 1941, in the wake of the German invasion of the
Soviet Union, local residents enflamed by Nazi propaganda murdered
the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne, Poland, the ferocity of
the attack horrified their fellow Poles. The denial of Polish
involvement in the massacre lasted for decades.
Since its founding, the journal "Kritika: Explorations in Russian
and Eurasian History" has led the way in exploring the East
European and Soviet experience of the Holocaust. This volume
combines revised articles from the journal and previously
unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of
prejudice, power, and publicity. It offers a probing examination of
the complicity of local populations in the mass murder of Jews
perpetrated in areas such as Poland, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and
northern Bukovina and analyzes Soviet responses to the Holocaust.
Based on Soviet commission reports, news media, and other
archives, the contributors examine the factors that led certain
local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish
neighbors; the interaction of Nazi occupation regimes with various
sectors of the local population; the ambiguities of Soviet press
coverage, which at times reported and at times suppressed
information about persecution specifically directed at the Jews;
the extraordinary Soviet efforts to document and prosecute Nazi
crimes and the way in which the Soviet state's agenda informed that
effort; and the lingering effects of silence about the true impact
of the Holocaust on public memory and state responses.
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