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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1999 13(3):355-382; doi:10.1093/hgs/13.3.355
© 1999 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Holocaust in the Eyes of Homo Sovieticus: A Survey Based on Northeastern Belorussia and Northwestern Russia

Daniel Romanovsky

Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

This article draws upon more than a hundred interviews to explore the recollections of Russian, Belorussian, and Jewish witnesses of the Holocaust. Reflecting ubiquitous cultural stereotypes as well as decades of political indoctrination, their statements constitute a highly subjective source: the author employs them here less to shed light on events themselves than to document how ordinary Soviet citizens understood, remembered, and spoke about them in the mid-1980s. Perceptions varied by ethnicity, but many common understandings characterized both Jewish and Gentile accounts. In addition to illustrating the influence of official Soviet ideology, these interviews also demonstrated the ability of ordinary people to shed that influence and make sense of history for themselves.


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