Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,3 (2014) 360-380
Keywords:
Żytomirski, Henio,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Pictorial works
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust Pictorial works
Abstract:
The photographic image of an "absent Jewish child", i.e. a Jewish child who perished during the Holocaust and did not grow to be an adult, has become repetitive in the representation and public commemoration of the Holocaust in post-communist Poland. This cultural icon has several functions: in addition to its being a potent educational tool, it supports the idealized image of prewar Poland as a tolerant multicultural society that is now irrevocably lost, and symbolizes Poland's "return" to Europe and wider cultural changes that this return has brought about. Discusses the use of the well-known photo of the Warsaw ghetto boy (titled "Pulled from the bunkers by force" in Stroop's report); the photograph of two boys in Jacek Dehnel's literary photo album "Fotoplastikon"); photographs used in Dariusz Jabłoński's documentary film on the Łódź ghetto "Fotoamator"; the artistic project "Dzieci Bałut - murale pamięci" by Piotr Saul and Damian Idzikowski; and the photo of Henio Żytomirski from Lublin, who perished in Majdanek at the age of nine, now used on the educational memorial site "Henio Żytomirski - Historia jednego życia", on the Internet.
DOI:
10.1080/14725886.2014.951536
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