Wojna, Holokaust i polityka na Litwie: skonfliktowane narracje
War, the holocaust and politics in Lithuania: conflicting narratives

Summary/Abstract: The genocide of the Jews should occupy a central place in the memory of the nation’s twentieth -century experience of wars and foreign occupations. Although perceptions of the Holocaust have changed considerably since the 1990s, this has not yet happened. The history of the vanished Litvak world has evoked interest but has also presented Lithuanian society with controversies, some of which have resonated internationally. Lithuania’s Holocaust is situated within a difficult conversation on the history of Jewish -Lithuanian relations and is closely linked to the broader transformation of historical memory of the post -Soviet era. Embedded within this setting are a number of issues: the context of wartime memory; conflicting postwar narratives concerning the Shoah; the emerging national conversation about the Holocaust since the late 1980s in both the academic and public sphere.

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