Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Partial Answers
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,1 (2006) 41-78
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jews
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Jewish ghettos
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Jewish children in the Holocaust
Kurzfassung:
Examines the work "Bajka o Krolewiczu" ("The Legend of the Prince"), an anonymous long poem written in Polish and accompanied by 17 illustrations, which was created in Leon Glazer's tailoring workshop in the Łódź ghetto and was found in the ruins of the ghetto after the war. Contends that the poem, using the strategy of "Aesopian language", attempts to register the fate of the ghetto children who labored in the workshop and who were deported during the roundup ("Sperre", curfew) of September 1942. Through the poem's visual and narrative references to familiar children's stories (e.g. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin") the reader can glimpse the unspeakable realities of hardship and betrayal in the ghetto. "The Legend" demands to be read not as an act of glorification of ghetto rulers, such as Rumkowski, but as a complex memorial act that registers and "countersigns" (in Derrida's sense) what it might suspect, what it cannot explicitly speak about, and what it could not know with certainty. The original text is now in the Art Museum at Yad Vashem.
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