The Soviet Narrative of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Authors: Gennady Estraikh
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

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.

Keywords

PL

Holocaust memorialisation; Holocaust instrumentalisation; Soviet press; Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee; Sovetish Heymland

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 123
• Pages: 289-307

Dates

published

2021-07-18

Contributors

author

Gennady Estraikh

• New York University; HSE University, Moscow

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7885-7851

Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/APH.2021.123.11