Competitive or Multidirectional? Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Ukrainian Society

Анотація

In this article I discuss the question of the place which the Holocaust occupies in the memory politics and popular image of history in the Ukrainian society. In particular, I analyze the perception of the Holocaust in the context of other tragedies of the twentieth century using the concepts of «competitive victimihood and «multidirectional memory» (M. Rothberg). The conclusions are based on the results of the representative statistical survey «Region, nation and beyond: interdisciplinary and intercultural reconceptualization of Ukraine». Keywords: collective memory, the Holocaust in Ukraine, competitive victimhood, multidirectional memory