The Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism has won four awards so far: The Best Book Award in International History and Politics (American Political Science Association), the Joseph Rothschild Award for Best Book in the Study of Nationalism and Ethnicity; the best book in the field of European politics and society of the American Association for Political Science, and was marked as one of the best books in 2020 by the Association of Authors for Slavic Studies, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.
The book explores how the former socialist states used Holocaust remembrance for strategic purposes to resolve their own contemporary ontological uncertainties – uncertainties about identity, their status, and the relationships they nurture with other international actors. Subotic analyzes contemporary Holocaust remembrance practices in three countries: Serbia, Croatia and Lithuania. Although these countries have different histories of the Holocaust, they have all carried out impressive projects to replace the crimes of the Holocaust with the crimes of communism.
The event is organized by ShoahLab: Laboratory for Holocaust Studies, IFDT.

Participants:
Jelena Subotic, University of Georgia, USA
Olga Manojlović Pintar, Institute for Recent History of Serbia
John Byford, Open University, UK
Nevena Daković, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade
Milovan Pisarri, Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Center for Applied History
Moderator: Vera Mevorah, Laboratory for Holocaust Studies, IFDT

The Laboratory for Holocaust Studies was founded in 2019 as a research center of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory. ShoahLab is the first institutional unit in the higher education system of the Republic of Serbia dedicated to the academic and professional study of the Holocaust. It was founded with the idea of gathering researchers and practitioners in this field in the Republic of Serbia to create a framework for interdisciplinary and contemporary approach to the study of the Holocaust and its consequences and causes in society, with special emphasis on politics of memory, Holocaust education, theoretical and philosophical reflections on the Holocaust and regional transnational studies on the Holocaust, war and genocide.