How come we have memorials for Jewish victims of the nazi holocaust but not for the 15 millions Christians?

Question

that died in the Ukrainian holocaust at the hands of the Soviet Union?

Answer 1

Some of the answers here are okay, and some aren't. Memorials, by their very nature, are erected by survivors and/or sympathizers who want others to remember.

In the case of the Nazi Holocaust, a powerful, well organized, well financed, and politically well connected Jewish interest group has successfully memorialized the event.

This memorialization has served the interest group well over the years, providing support for the state of Israel, for Israeli policies, muting criticism on the ground of "anti-semitism", and promoting a sympathetic image of Jews as a persecuted minority. The Holocaust is prominently featured in high school history books everywhere in America.

In the United States, the history and legacy of African slavery is memorialized far more than the Holocaust. And that's probably as it should be, since slavery had a far greater impact on this nation's history.

Another "holocaust" that probably ought to be more prominently featured is the U.S. government's thinly veiled attempts to annihilate Native Americans in the 19th century -- both the Trail of Tears and the Indian Wars between the Civil War and 1890. That directly involves American history, whereas the Nazi Holocaust is part of European history.

Then, you ask, why are there no memorials for the victims of the Ukranian holocaust? That part of the question can be generalized to include the Armenian genocide, the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese during WWII, the half-century of Korean occupation by the Japanese, Idi Amin's genocide in Uganda, the Rwandan genocide, Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia, Stalin's purge of the 1930s, the Soviet gulags, and, for that matter, Roman behavior after the Fall of Carthage.

The point here is that there are of events that could be, or are deserving of being, memorialized. The difference between this list and the Nazi Holocaust is that the latter was successfully promoted by a special interest group.

I think that answers your question.

Answer 2

Because over 70% of the jewish population was wiped out. And they were all discriminated against and all on the nazi's hit list. Christians were on every side of the war and were not persecuted. The soviet union also has a christian orthodox religion. 21 million of them died in the genoside under Stalin which could also be seen as a holocaust but no memorials for them. a Holocaust if not fefered to the jews is any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life that happens every day in the world but in the case of the jews they were almost wiped out and were all on one 'side'. Christianity has so many branches off it it is very difficult to be able to persecute them soley without it coming back to yourself somehow (eg as in ww2 any decendant of yours or ansestor was found to be jewish you would also be killed.).

Answer 3

I surely do no longer elect a million. i think of it incredibly is a genuine mistake, to conflate what occurred below the Nazis with different genocides. there's a undertaking between 2 and 3 - the be conscious has been used interchangeably in the two senses, by Jews and for the duration of others. some Jews experience strongly that with the aid of be conscious's resonance with the 'burnt alternatives' of the Temple, and wanting to sacralize what became so profane, that that's going to coach purely to the Jewish victims. yet we've not got yet another good be conscious to describe the entire horror of murdering targetted communities in that era, inclusive of Roma and Sinti, disabled and mentally sick human beings, gays and lesbians, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. those communities have been specifically targetted for who they have been in themselves, something that could no longer get replaced, or became seen that way by Nazis (subsequently the homicide of folk of Jewish ancestry who have been Christian converts or otherwise outdoors the Jewish community). i comprehend i exploit it in the two senses, and take it in yet differently staring on the context. Which i assume does not rather help, yet is the fact.

Answer 4

The memorials are for victims and not specific to any one culture. Blacks, Gypsies and mixed races also died in the Nazi Holocaust, so the memorials are for them as well.

It takes a long time to heal before people can think about memorializing their dead in such an elaborate way. Many people prefer not to think about it at all. (Think Viet Nam, that memorial took years and what about our soldiers dead from the Iraqi "War"?)

Also it's about money. I think the people in the Ukraine are more concerned with food and jobs. Memorials would be number one thousand on the list of necessities.

Answer 5

I've never heard that a great number of people were deported because of being Christians. Nazis resented Christianism as a derivative of Judaism, but I have never been told that they bombed off churches or so.. regarding Ukraine, their genocide was completely planned (as much as the Irish one in the 19th century) by the USSR, but not because they were Christians, but because they were ... Ukrainans. Here is the difference
you could say the same vis a vis all the Germans who died under the American and British planes at the end of the war (virt. 750 000 d)

Answer 6

Because the Soviets won the war.

Answer 7

I guess since Russia was our ally we do not want to smear them. Its like the same thing with Turkey. WHy do we not study the Armenian masscre? its because Turkey is our ally. Same thing with Stalin why was he not put on trial for war crimes but Adolf Eichman was?I think we need to make memorials in America. I think this should be changed and the name for the Japanese interment camps, my korean family was also put in those camps. Honestly americans cannot tell the difference between asian races.

Answer 8

Excellent question? Thank you for sharing your sight and wit.
It is amazing how a select group of Jewish organization are quick to call others Anti Semitic. Yet, these same organization have shown their own Anti Semitism towards other races, ethnicities & religions. By disregarding the fact, they too lost lives (masses) as well as, there native born land without any form of reparations.
If you noticed, there are more Jewish synagogues and schools sprouting up (separatism).

Answer 9

Probably because no Christian organization has worked to have such a memorial erected. These things don't happen by chance. It takes time, effort, and money on the part of interested parties.

Answer 10

Sounds like a great project(a memorial). Go sink your energy into that instead of complaining.