The Holocaust and the Cold War. Culture and Justice

Joint Annual Conference
Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main and Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Welcome and introduction

› Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena)
› Sybille Steinbacher (Frankfurt am Main)

Keynotes

› Prof. Dr. Mary Fulbrook
The Holocaust as a European Project
› Prof. Dr. Jan Tomasz Gross
Reflections about Jewish Life in Eastern Europe after the Second World War

The Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt and the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena joined forces to explore the confrontational nature of the Cold War and discuss how debating on the Holocaust became a discursive and ideological weapon in the arsenals of both blocs. The Joint Conference was held online from May 26 to 28, 2021.

The conference examined to what extent the Cold War affected representations of the Shoah in historiography, legal investigations and trials as well as the arts and will ask how this has determined political discourse until today. We took stock of the confrontational nature of the Cold War and discussed how the Holocaust became a discursive and ideological weapon in the arsenals of both the West and the Eastern Bloc.

Prof. Dr. Mary Fulbrook

is Professor of German History at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London.

Prof. Dr. Jan Tomasz Gross

is Norman B. Tomlinson ’16 and ’48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus, and Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University.