UCSB Hist 133D
Prof. Marcuse
The Holocaust in German History
Dec. 2, 1999
Lecture 18: Personal Reflections on History and Memory
Announcements
Journals due today; papers will be returned next Tuesday
Q4 next Tuesday; Q5 and final exam study guide next Thursday
Please return books and videos!!
Babi Yar and Soviet/Ukrainian history
Germans arrive Sept. 19, 1941; delayed action bombs detonate Sept. 24
Sept. 27: placards blame Jews; city surrounded by Ukrainian militia
8am, Sept. 29: assembly at cemeteries (175,000 Jews in 1939; ca. 100,000 in 1941)
text by Lucy Dawidowicz
33,771 Jews killed in two days (2x12 hrs: 1,400murders/hr or 23/minute)
by Nov. 3, 1941: 75,000 Jews; 100,000 murders total, 90,000 Jews
Soviet antisemitism under Stalin: Jan. 1953 "doctor murders; reversal after 1956
idea of monument, but construction project instead: Spring 1961 flood
Anatoly Kuznetsov,
Babi Yar
Sept. 1991 (after Ukrainian independence): Bronze menorah was set up
poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, music by Dmitri Shostakovich (symphony no. 13)
performance by Kurt Masur and Yevtushenko in New York, Jan. 1993
Nina Morecki's story
born 1920, lived on Kopernika St. until ca. 1937, moved to Place Strzelecky ["Jeletsky"]
"Soluky"-estate northwest of Lvov
Russian occupation Oct. 1939-June 1941; German invasion July 1941
Ghetto by November 1941
Concentration camp Janowska, Dec. 1942-late 1943 (Piaski Ravine massacre site)
Spring 1944-New Year's 1944/45: German post office south of Kiev
crossed border to Rumania, met future husband, worked as nurse for Red Army
The professor's "home video" of 1999 Lviv trip (15 mins.)
Film (5 mins.) liberation of Dachau, shot by George Stevens (filmed "Diary of Anne Frank")
US and Soviet armies meet at Torgau on the Elbe
SS and Capos beaten by prisoners, shot by US soldiers; survivor identification
national flags, religious service
The professor's story