| Date | Time | Location |
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| Monday, April 16, 2012 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
This talk explores the participation and visibility of Jews and the Jewish genocide in the Soviet regime’s efforts to document war crimes and mete out justice in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi occupation. Using records from local Soviet Extraordinary State Commissions and trials of collaborators in Ukraine as well as autobiographical sources, this talk complicates the traditional narrative emphasizing the silence surrounding the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, epitomized by the erasure of Jewish victimhood in public discussions of the “peaceful Soviet citizens” murdered by the Nazis. By giving careful attention to the context in which these documents, never intended for public consumption in the USSR, were produced and the language used in them, this analysis highlights the more complex ways in which Soviet, national, and other identities pervaded local conceptions of the human tragedy wrought by the occupiers.
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