Synthesis of the Soviet Politics of Holocaust Remembrance with Personal Memories of Lithuanian and Belarusian Jews

Student: Orlova Aleksandra

Supervisor: Alexander Semyonov

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2021

This paper presents an analysis of the memories of the Holocaust of Belarusian and Lithuanian Jews. Its purpose is to answer the question: how did the memory politics of the USSR and certain republics (the BSSR and the USSR) affect the personal memories of Jews about the Holocaust? The analysis focuses on how people talk about their experiences: what stories about their lives they prefer to tell and how. Comparing the narratives of memories allows to identify the plots and narrative techniques that are most characteristic of each republic, as well as to explain the reasons for their occurrence.

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