Vanished History

The Holocaust in Czech and Slovak Historical Culture
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-507-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler’s Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1938-39, Slovakia became a formally independent but fully subordinate satellite of Germany. Despite the fact it was not occupied until 1944, Slovakia paid Germany to deport its own Jewish citizens to extermination camps.

About 270,000 out of the 360,000 Czech and Slovak casualties of World War II were victims of the Holocaust. Despite these statistics, the Holocaust vanished almost entirely from post-war Czechoslovak, and later Czech and Slovak, historical cultures. The communist dictatorship carried the main responsibility for this disappearance, yet the situation has not changed much since the fall of the communist regime. The main questions of this study are how and why the Holocaust was excluded from the Czech and Slovak history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sniegon, Tomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Czechoslovak history’s velvet awakening

Chapter 1. Czech and Slovak historical narratives

Chapter 2. The Holocaust in Czechoslovak historical culture before 1989

Chapter 3. The Holocaust’s uneven return

Chapter 4. Schindler’s List arrives in Schindler’s homeland

Chapter 5. Pig farm as a Porrajmos remembrance site

Chapter 6. The Slovak war history goes to Europe

Chapter 7. The Holocaust-lacking historical cultures in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Conclusion                                                           

References and literature

Über Autor(innen)

Sniegon, Tomas
Tomas Sniegon is a historian and Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. His research focuses on Holocaust memory in various historical cultures and on the development of the Soviet forms of Communism in Europe during the Cold War.

Tomas Sniegon is a historian and Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the University of Lund, Sweden. His research focuses on Holocaust memory in various historical cultures and on the development of the Soviet forms of Communism in Europe during the Cold War.