Between Denial and “Comparative Trivialization”: Holocaust Negationism in Post-Communist East Central Europe
Michael Shafir (2002). Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SISCA).
The article considers various forms of Holocaust ‘negationism’ in Eastern Europe including denial, attempts to deflect responsibility for local Holocaust era events, the blaming of the victims and the comparative trivialisation of the Holocaust. The legacy of communist manipulation of the historical record for post-communist era treatment of the Holocaust and some of the motives and purposes of contemporary ‘negationism’ are discussed.