Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Opowieść o niewinności
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2018) 345-387
Keywords:
Błoński, Jan.
;
Gross, Jan Tomasz.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
;
Witnesses
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Polish people Attitudes
Abstract:
In the late 1980s, a choice of narration about the war occurred in the Polish culture. The authors shed light on its consequences. In the narration proposed by Błoński in “The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto,” which introduced the figure of Poles as “indifferent bystanders to the Shoah” that holds to this day, they indicate areas that eschew problematization and describe discursive strategies that allow for ignoring unwelcome topics. Gross’s approach (“Ten jest z ojczyzny mojej…, ale go nie lubię”), which departs from acknowledgment and analysis of the censorship present in the Polish tale of Shoah, is a successful attempt at looking, from the outside, at mechanisms of silencing and disowning knowledge about Polish attitudes: an attempt that was never made.
Note:
Appeared in English in "The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015" (2021) 213-244.
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