Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Opowieść o niewinności
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2018) 53-97
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Witnesses
Abstract:
The author draws cognitive frameworks for the category of witness, critically approaching the most significant concepts and discussions around this category—or better said, around many categories that appear in the constellation of witness: bystander, witness, moral witness, participant. She demonstrates that simultaneously with the Shoah, the Polish memory politics concerning this event was already forming. Memory politics is defined as a meta-narration, formulating recurring motifs, common places, fabularizations, and taboos. The figure of a Polish witness as the only admissible and canonical form of commenting on the Polish role in the Shoah emerged already during the war. The author analyzes press publications, proclamations, manifestos, early diaries, and essays, pointing out the recurring motifs and ways of thinking about the Polish witness.
Note:
Appeared in English in "The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015" (2021) 41-78.
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