Search

Far from being "Jews of silence", as the Cold War narrative has suggested for decades, the tenacious activists of the postwar years succeeded in memorializing Holocaust victims, and did so by creating a unique Soviet Jewish path to I Zakhor i . Zeltser's compelling book is a first attempt to elucidate the long, complicated, and deeply ambivalent history of the Soviet politics of Holocaust memory, from 1945 through the late 1980s. Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union: Arkadi Zeltser, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2018. [Extracted from the article]