Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Opowieść o niewinności
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2018) 501-556
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Pictorial works
;
Witnesses
Abstract:
The Holocaust perpetrated by the Germans in occupied Poland had many onlookers on the “Aryan” side of the wall. Despite this, there are not many visual records created by Polish bystanders. The author attempts to trace how the visual documents produced during the war (mainly by the German occupants) are used to create the figure of an empathetic observer of the Holocaust, whose figure and the set of views ascribed to it is always subject to social negotiations. The figure of the Polish witness to the Shoah, created unceasingly since 1945, evolved, acquiring features of likelihood, even though it is almost always placed within a reality mimicking what has been recorded by the German photojournalists, filmmakers and “trophy hunters.”
Note:
Appeared in English in "The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015" (2021) 283-330.
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