• search hit 37 of 0
Back to Result List

At the Crossroads of "Memory Wars": Recent Debates on the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

  • When in 2016 the decision was made to create an international Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, the plan received much support from government officials, including President Petro Poroshenko. Yet opposition emerged from both the Ukrainian Jewish community and nationally-minded Ukrainian historians and public institutions. The article provides the (memory) political context to the debates and critically assesses the arguments and underlying historical perceptions behind them.

Download full text files

Export metadata

Additional Services

Share in Twitter Search Google Scholar
Metadata
Document Type:Article
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25626/0087
Creator and project details
Author:Alexandr Voronovici
Editor:Joachim von PuttkamerGND, Michal KopečekGND, Włodzimierz BorodziejGND
Publishing Institution:Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Title details
Title (English):At the Crossroads of "Memory Wars": Recent Debates on the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Parent Title (English):Cultures of History Forum
Release Date:2020/08/24
Date of Publication (online):2020/02/12
Date of first Publication:2018/08/07
Language:English
Subject indexing
DDC-Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Collections:Cultures of History Forum (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Tag:Babi Yar; Holocaust; Institute of National Memory; Russia; Ukraine; commemoration; victimhood
GND Keyword:Ukraine; Babij Jar / Massaker; Gedenkstätte; Ukraïnsʹkyj Instytut Nacionalʹnoï Pamʺjati
Manifestation description (file/s)
File Size:6106 KB
MIME-Type:application/pdf
Legal information
Licence / Usage Agreement (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt
This website uses technically necessary session cookies. By continuing to use the website, you agree to this. You can find our data protection declaration here.