SUMMARY:

The article examines the process of emerging of new collective memory about Holocaust in the post-soviet Ukraine. It opens with an overview of different theories of collective memory, singling out the most appropriate for the analysis of Ukrainian situation (the notions of “distributed” and “competing” collective memories; official and contr- memories; connection between memory and identity; etc.). E. Ivanova presents a picture of East-Central European revisions of Holocaust representation, pointing to the obvious connection between the reconfiguration of the framework of collective memory and the transformation of regimes and identities. Then she proceeds with the analysis of post-soviet Ukrainian text-books (important instruments of collective memory’s construction), exploring the limits of their representation of such challenging for the new Ukrainian national project topics as Holocaust and local population’s collaboration with the Nazis. Finally E. Ivanova presents the results of a sociological survey among the students of Har’kiv Jewish school and institutes’ of higher learning regarding their knowledge about Holocaust. The analysis of students essays allows E. Ivanova to make conclusions about the inclusiveness of current Ukrainian collective memory and the chances of “Ukrainian Holocaust” to become a part of it.