Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2020) 118-159
Keywords:
Collective memory Political aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
;
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
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Poland Politics and government 1945-
Abstract:
The tragic experiences of prisoners of the second largest ghetto organized by the Germans on Polish lands (after the Warsaw ghetto) were seldom incorporated into the sphere of of ficial commemorations of World War II in communist Poland. This text attempts to retrace the increasing marginalization of collective memory in the Lódź ghetto during 1945-1989 and point to the peculiar niches where its cultivation was permitted. The author is interested predominantly in the issue of the communist politics of historical memory with regard to the collective perceptions of the occupation-period history of the Bahuty quarter, which was iso history of the 'closed quarter in tódź, that is manifestations of the top-down formatting of lated from the outside world. In the background of these reflections appears the issue of ten sion between official and popular memory and a question as to when and in what contexts the content of the latter could manifest themselves in the public space of the People's Republic of Poland. The article's source base is publications, periodicals, and selected documentation of intstitutions co-creating the communist politics of historical memory
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