History and Memory of the Holocaust in the U.S.S.R. — Sasha Senderovich

Talk starts at 1:57. Q&A at 58:32. As many as half of all the Jewish victims of the Holocaust died in 1941-1942, in the killing fields of Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia — the territories of the Soviet Union. In its turn, the USSR suppressed much of this history because it raised uncomfortable questions about the complicity of various groups of Soviet citizens in the killing of Jews.

Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, will delve into this contested history by looking at its manifestations in literature and cinema, in particular the 1999 Russian film "Ladies' Tailor."

Music:
-Shpatsir in Vald (A Walk in the Forest) [feat. Alexander Sevastian, Loyko & Sophie Milman]
-Kazakhstan (feat. Loyko & Sophie Milman)
Both from the Yiddish Glory project, used with permission.

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