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September 18, 2025InterlitterariaOpen Access

Detached Holocaust Memory: The Lithuanian-American Community’s View of the Holocaust in the First Decades after the Second World War

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ANAkvilė NaudžiūnienėVilnius University

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Implication

Analysis reveals complex tensions in Holocaust memory from the Lithuanian-American community, indicating varying engagements with narratives of suffering and identity.

Key Points

  • The Lithuanian-American community exhibited a complex relationship with Holocaust memory, reflecting divergent views shaped by their backgrounds.
  • In the immediate postwar years, the community's Holocaust discourse was fragmented and largely reactive, focusing on Jewish survivors' experiences.
  • Analyses of newspapers and literary works reveal significant ideological polarization, ranging from attempts at reconciliation to nationalist defensiveness.
  • This study emphasizes that the Holocaust memory in this community represented a negotiation process influenced by various external pressures and historical narratives.

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Akvilė Naudžiūnienė (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d462d231b076d99fa62403https://doi.org/10.12697/il.2025.10.1.6
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