Powroty krakowskich Żydow do rodzinnego miasta w świetle literatury dokumentu osobistego
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The returns of Krakow’s jews to their home townin the light of personal document literature
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Krakow's Jews, scattered around the world, reminisce about their hometown. The main reasons for returning to Krakow are recurring images of the past and the urge to see their life story as a coherent whole. The returnees rediscover their hometown through their own traces of memory, although there are shared stops on the way. These are the places associated with their childhood and their family history, but also with the heritage of Krakow's Jews and the Holocaust. Such diverse stops on the trail of memories show dual identity of the city – the city of a once glorious past but also stigmatised by blood, murder and loss. The absence of the families of the murdered Jewish community is equivalent to the lack of natural environment of commemoration. Those returning are looking for a new commemorative milieu, and everyone who remembers will also become part of it (e.g. their school friends, teachers, neighbours etc.). Finally, the returnees are coming back home – to the house where they were born, but one that is not home anymore.
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255-255
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9788376762630
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PDF (via academia.edu), Powroty krakowskich Żydow do rodzinnego miasta w świetle literatury dokumentu osobistego
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Powroty krakowskich Żydow do rodzinnego miasta w świetle literatury dokumentu osobistego. . 2017: 255-255. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-pol119
