The 11th hour disavowal of Trump has been swift and sweeping. A surprising number of Republican senators who, at the start of the day on Wednesday, planned to perpetuate the fiction of a stolen election withdrew their demands to “investigate” once night fell. The most surprising was Kelly Loeffler, who had nothing to lose having been …
Holocaust education in Lithuania:community, conflict, and the making of civil society, by Christine Beresniova, Lanham, Lexington Books,2017, 189 pp., $90.00, ISBN 978-1-4985-3744-5 (hbk), 978-1-4985-3745-2 (e-book) In the 2017 BBC biographical drama,’Victoria and Abdul,’ about the real relation ship between the British Queen Victoria and her Indian servant Abdul Karim,there is a comic scene about Britain’s …
During the Second World War, almost the entire Jewish community in Lithuania was killed. Yet, throughout the whole Soviet period, the Holocaust never really existed as a topic in the official discourse. Soviet historians could only write about “the murder of peaceful Soviet citizens.” These prohibitions no longer remain in post-Soviet countries; however, this does …