From Absence to Loss: Holocaust Commemoration in Present-day Poland
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In this article I argue that remembrance of the Jews and the Holocaust in Poland was subject to a conspiracy of silence in the local space of former Jewish communities and villages for many decades after the war. I am interested in whether and under what social conditions commemorating local Jewish communities in present-day Poland leads to coming to terms with painful memories and, by contrast, when it results in distorting such memories. I refer to the findings of qualitative research of case studies conducted in three towns: Bobowa, Dąbrowa Tarnowska and Rymanów.
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5
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115-136
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PDF (via academia.edu), From Absence to Loss: Holocaust Commemoration in Present-day Poland
Link to pdf of entire issue, Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History. Issue number 5. Holocaust/Shoah
Link to pdf of entire issue, Remembrance and Solidarity Studies in 20th Century European History. Issue number 5. Holocaust/Shoah
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From Absence to Loss: Holocaust Commemoration in Present-day Poland. 2016: 115-136. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-1220
