Bitter War of Memory (eBook)

The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration

Victoria Khiterer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
322 Seiten
Purdue University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62671-114-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration discusses the Holocaust in Kyiv and the efforts to memorialize the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar is one of the largest Holocaust sites in the Soviet Union and modern Ukraine, where the Nazis and their collaborators killed virtually all the Jews who remained in the city during the occupation.

After the war, Soviet ideology suppressed commemoration of the Holocaust, instead conceptualizing the universal suffering of the Soviet people during the war. Police dispersed unauthorized commemoration meetings of Jewish activists at Babyn Yar. A monument “for one hundred thousand citizens of Kyiv and prisoners of the war” was erected in Babyn Yar in 1976, but the Holocaust was not mentioned in its inscription.

With the collapse of communism, state anti-Semitism ended. Holocaust commemoration became an important part of national memory politics in independent Ukraine. In the last few decades, over thirty monuments have been built at Babyn Yar, which are dedicated to the memory of Jews, Roma, members of the resistance movement, and other people executed there. However, heated debates continue about the commemoration of the Babyn Yar massacre.

Inhalt

List of Maps and Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction

1. Kyivan Jews in the Interwar Period

2. The Babyn Yar Massacre: The Holocaust of Jews in Kyiv

3. Other Victims of the Nazi Regime in Kyiv

4. Jewish Life and Anti-Semitism in Postwar Kyiv

5. Aftermath of the Babyn Yar Massacre

6. Broken Silence over Babyn Yar

7. Babyn Yar Commemoration in Independent Ukraine

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2025
• Verlagsort: West Lafayette
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: aftermath of the Holocaust • Anti-Semitism • Babyn Yar • commemoration and memorialization of the Holocaust • Holocaust • Jewish Activism • Jews • KGB • Kyiv • Memory Politics • Memory Studies • Mental Illness • mentally ill people • Pogrom • Refusenik Movement • Roma • Soviet Security Services • Soviet Union • the Nazi occupation • Ukraine • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-62671-114-3 / 1626711143
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62671-114-3 / 9781626711143