Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Estraikh, Gennady

Titel

THE SOVIET NARRATIVE OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

Ist Teil von

• Acta Poloniae historica, 2021 (123), p.289-307

Ort / Verlag

The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History The Polish Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Soviet ideological overseers did not consider the Warsaw Ghetto uprising an utterly taboo topic. However, on their general scale of notable events of the Second World War, the uprising belonged to the category of relatively minor episodes, worth mentioning mainly in the context of ‘more important’ themes, such as the presence of former Nazis in state institutions of West Germany or the collaboration of some Jews, most notably Zionists, with the Nazis. At the same time, the Soviet Yiddish periodicals, first Eynikayt [Unity, 1942–8] and then Sovetish Heymland [Soviet Homeland, 1961–91] did not treat the uprising as an event of secondary importance. Instead, they emphasise the heroism of the ghetto fighters.