Historical Memory Policies

Holocaust research has expanded enormously in recent decades and consists by now of a series of subdomains. Nevertheless, the central domain was and remains the domain of “the core period”: the years of the Nazi regime, 1933–1945, and of the regimes of Nazi Germany’s close allies and satellite countries. In this treatise, Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, surveys and examines the major developments and changes in research on the core period of the Holocaust since 1990 until today, and analyzes the various factors that paved the way toward and prompted them—politics, memory policies and interests, social psychological needs, generational changes, value transformations, and new scholarly methodologies—citing hundreds of references in many languages. The broad picture presented in this treatise leads to conclusions that erode several assumptions, which became entrenched in earlier stages of research and are still widely taught and are commonplace in popular discourse. Consequently, according to the author, there is a need to redefine our understanding of the anti-Jewish campaign unleashed by Nazism for which we use the terms “the Holocaust” or ”the Shoah” and fine-tune it. The treatise, which concludes with such a redefinition, is a “must” for those who are interested in the most updated picture of the state of historical research on the Holocaust.

Hard copy available at
https://store.yadvashem.org/en/search-research-lectures-and-papers-34-holocaust-historiography-between-1990-to-2021-in-contexts-new-insights-perceptions-understandings-and-avenuesan-overview-and-analysis
The full text can be found at acdemia.edu under HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY BETWEEN 1990 TO 2021

The repercussions of Ukraine’s failure to properly study, acknowledge, and teach the darker sides of its past are making themselves felt. Indeed, they seem to be causing international scandals with increasing regularity. The UINP and other activists are alienating Ukraine’s most important international partners and allies at a time when Ukraine needs their help the most. For these and other reasons, Ukraine should embrace a more academic and less escapist approach to understanding its wartime history — as most Western countries have eventually done.

Las sociedades que debido a episodios de violencia masiva han sufrido fracturas en su convivencia y daños de diversa mag-nitud y alcance, saben que una vez que la violencia se ha logrado controlar, disminuir o incluso cesar, es momento de revisar lo ocurrido y buscar formas de recomposición social. Como en Argentina y Chile, finalizadas las dictaduras militares en los países del Cono Sur, la memoria se ubicó en un sitio importante dentro de los contextos transicionales. Sin embargo, la manera en que la me