The development of “witnessing theory”1 and “ego-documents”2 studies in Western academia has stimulated publications3 and online archives4 dedicated to Soviet Jewish life and different types of Jewish identity in post-Soviet countries. In the context of the contemporary relevance of ego-documents studies, I would like to offer my personal experience of studying the Holocaust and Jewish Read More
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The Town of Mizoch on the Map of the Holocaust
I was born in Soviet Ukraine. According to the memory politics of this state, we were not told anything about the Holocaust as children, and for a long time this topic was terra incognita for me. During school lessons about World War II, which was then called the “Great Fatherland War,” we heard about the Read More
