Dealing with the family past: (grand)children of Nazi collaborators in Lithuania

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Dealing with the family past: (grand)children of Nazi collaborators in Lithuania
In the Journal:
S: I. M. O. N [Shoah: intervention, methods, documentation]. 2021, Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 63-85
Keywords:
LT
20 amžius; Kolektyvinė atmintis / Collective memory; Nusikaltimai / Crimes; Nusikaltimai žmogiškumui / Crime against humanity; Tarptautiniai konfliktai. Karai / International conflicts. Wars.
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Holokaustas; Istorinė atmintis; Šeima; Paveldas; Karo nusikaltimas. Keywords: Holocaust; Historical memory; Family; Heritage; War crime.

ENThis article deals with the question of how the (grand)children of local Nazi collaborators in Lithuania have dealt with their family histories and with their (grand)parents’ crimes. On the basis of archival materials and interviews, it illuminates how Holocaust perpetrators were convicted, how families were affected by these convictions, and how their lives evolved afterwards, how families coped with uncertainties or family secrets and developed mechanisms of denial or family mythologies. Furthermore, the article illuminates developments after 1990 – the revision of Soviet sentences, processes of rehabilitation and de-rehabilitation, the opening of archives, and the clash between imagined and documented realities. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.23777/SN.0121
ISSN:
2408-9192
Permalink:
https://www.lituanistika.lt/content/97062
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2022-12-20 18:46:49
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