The Babi Yar tract in Kyiv is well-known as a site of murder and burial of Holocaust victims. During the Second World War, it was located on the outskirts of the city; now, it is part of the urban metropolis. In the Ukrainian intellectual community, Babi Yar has long been not only an object of Read More
Tag: Remembrance
Holocaust Studies in Ukrainian Academia in the 1990s-2020s: From Translations and Locality to Cultural and Philosophical Comprehension
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
Yiddish play manuscript draws attention to early Holocaust commemoration in Finland
In 2005, when I was working at the National Archives of Finland, I was commissioned to do an inventory of archival material found in a cellar of a building owned by the Jewish Community of Helsinki. Amidst thousands of documents, I found the manuscript of a tableau called Muter Rokhl un ire kinder (Mother Rachel Read More
