DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

Despite the Soviet paradigm obscuring the destruction of Jewish populations, several Ukrainian authors have attempted to represent the Holocaust. I examine the texts written by Mykola Bazhan, Valentyna Cherednychenko, Yuri Ianovskyi, and Yuri Smolych in 1943–1946 establishing a balance between the official Soviet policy of commemoration and the writers’ effort to preserve the memory of the Jews.

Hanna Protasova is a PhD student at Western University (Canada).

Between Silence and Mourning: The Representation
of the Holocaust in 1940s Soviet Ukrainian Fiction

HANNA PROTASOVA