Bringing the dark past to light : the reception of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe / edited and with an introduction by John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Our Conscience Is Clean": Albanian Elites and the Memory of the Holocaust in Postsocialist Albania / Daniel Perez -- Invisible Genocide: The Holocaust in Belarus / Per Anders Rudling -- Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Francine Friedman -- Debating the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during World War II / Joseph Benatov -- Representations of the Holocaust and Historical Debates in Croatia since 1989 / Mark Biondich -- Sheep of Lidice: The Holocaust and the Construction of Czech National History / Michal Frankl -- Victim of History: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Estonia / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Holocaust Remembrance in the German Democratic Republic and Beyond / Peter Monteath -- Memory of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Hungary / Paul Hanebrink -- Politics of Holocaust Memory / Paul Hanebrink -- Cinematic Memory of the Holocaust / Catherine Portuges -- Transformation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia / Bella Zisere -- Conflicting Memories: The Reception of the Holocaust in Lithuania / Sarunas Liekis -- Combined Legacies of the "Jewish Question" and the "Macedonian Question" / Holly Case -- Public Discourses on the Holocaust in Moldova: Justification, Instrumentalization, and Mourning / Vladimir Solonari -- Memory of the Holocaust in Post-1989 Poland: Renewal Its Accomplishments and Its Powerlessness / Malgorzata Melchior -- Public Perceptions of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Romania / Mihai Chioveanu -- Reception of the Holocaust in Russia: Silence, Conspiracy, and Glimpses of Light / Klas-Goran Karlsson -- Between Marginalization and Instrumentalization: Holocaust Memory in Serbia since the Late 1980s / Jovan Byford -- "Unmasterable Past"? The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Slovakia / Nina Paulovicova -- On the Periphery: Jews, Slovenes, and the Memory of the Holocaust / Gregor Joseph Kranjc -- Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Ukraine / John-Paul Himka -- Conclusion / Omer Bartov.