TY - GEN A1 - Winestock, Brett T1 - Museums of shame : Dovid Hofshteyn's vision of Holocaust remembrance T2 - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin N2 - In early 1944, shortly after the liberation of Kyiv, the Yiddish poet Dovid Hofshteyn (1889–1952) returned home from evacuation and was confronted firsthand with the horrors of the Holocaust. This encounter moved him to pen the passionate essay "Muzeyen fun shand" ("Museums of Shame"). [...] He suggested gathering pictures, documents, and tools of this terrible time that were to be displayed in so-called museums of shame in "every major city in the world and in every point of German population." [...] Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there were plans to fully open the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center by 2023 - though those plans have certainly been hindered by the latest war of aggression on the territory of Ukraine. [...] However, even prior to the Russian war against Ukraine, the Memorial Center was already shrouded in controversy. Some critics were wary that certain funders - Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin - would seek to turn the site into an outlet for Kremlin propaganda with an anti-Ukrainian bias that focused predominantly on Ukrainian collaborators. While a number of Ukrainians were indeed collaborators during the Holocaust, even more Ukrainians became victims of the Nazis. Other critics thus argue that a sober look at the crimes committed by Ukrainians as well as by the German occupiers is a sign of the mature civil society which has emerged in Ukraine. T3 - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin - 17.08.2022 KW - Gofštejn, David N. KW - Massaker von Babi Jar KW - Kollektives Gedächtnis KW - Gedenkstätte Y1 - 2022 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69205 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-692057 UR - https://www.zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2022/08/17/brett-winestock-museums-of-shame-dovid-hofshteyns-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance/ SN - 2748-5072 N1 - Erweiterte Version eines zuerst unter https://mimeo.dubnow.de/museums-of-shame/ erschienenen Beitrags. VL - 2022 IS - 17.08.2022 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin CY - Berlin ER -