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Reined into the service of the Cold War confrontation, antifascist
ideology overshadowed the narrative about the Holocaust in the
communist states of Eastern Europe. This led to the Western notion
that in the Soviet Bloc there was a systematic suppression of the
memory of the mass murder of European Jews. Going beyond disputing
the mistaken opposition between "communist falsification" of
history and the "repressed authentic" interpretation of the Jewish
catastrophe, this work presents and analyzes the ways as the
Holocaust was conceptualized in the Soviet-ruled parts of Europe.
The authors provide various interpretations of the relationship
between antifascism and Holocaust memory in the communist
countries, arguing that the predominance of an antifascist agenda
and the acknowledgment of the Jewish catastrophe were far from
mutually exclusive. The interactions included acts of negotiation,
cross-referencing, and borrowing. Detailed case studies describe
how both individuals and institutions were able to use anti-fascism
as a framework to test and widen the boundaries for discussion of
the Nazi genocide. The studies build on the new historiography of
communism, focusing on everyday life and individual agency,
revealing the formation of a great variety of concrete, local
memory practices.
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