A unique view of the Holocaust distinguishes ex-Soviet Jews from all other Jews in the Western world, as well as from western perceptions of Jews. The Holocaust ‘became the central episode in Jewish and world history and a transcendental religious concept referring to an event described as incomparable, incomprehensible, and unrepresentable’ (Slezkine 2004, 365). Soviet Jews do not share this view, nor do they identify themselves as victims of the Holocaust. Rather, most see themselves as part of a collective of victors whose members include former soldiers of the Soviet army who struggled together with all other Soviet citizens against what is often referred to as the ‘brown plague of Nazism’ during World War II.