Eulogy of a different kind: Letters to Henio and the unsettled memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Poland
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Letters to Henio is an emblematic example of an audience participatory memorial practice developed by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin. This article provides an ethnographic account of this initiative and presents insights from an audience research study conducted with young people in 2016. It discerns the immediate impact this initiative has on young participants’ attitudes towards commemoration of Holocaust victims. This research indicates a departure from polarized narratives of the Holocaust which tend to dominate the Polish memory discourse, and the presence of more ambiguous, messier and fragmented positions towards the Holocaust among younger generations of Poles.
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Ethnography Holocaust Education Holocaust Commemoration Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Memory Theatre Youth
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25(3)
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273-299
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Link to article (paywalled), Eulogy of a different kind: Letters to Henio and the unsettled memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Poland
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Eulogy of a different kind: Letters to Henio and the unsettled memory of the Holocaust in contemporary Poland. 2019: 273-299. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/17504902.2019.1567665
