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In the Shadow of Two Monuments: Local Battlefields of Politics of History in Hungary and Poland
Author(s): Anikó, Félix; Forecki, Piotr
Date: 2024
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration
Abstract: The politics of history occupies an important place on the agenda of the current right-wing populist governments of Hungary and Poland. These countries have a lot in common in terms of state-level Holocaust distortion and whitewashing of difficult historical issues. This paper aims at investigating these national tendencies through a local ‘lens’ by studying the controversies around the Turul statue in the 12th district of Budapest (2005) and the monument of Jan Maletka erected at the Treblinka railway station (2021). Both monuments were established in places directly related to the local history of Jewish suffering during World War II and are symbolic of the various aspects of the Holocaust. Furthermore, both can be seen and interpreted as specific examples of the ‘de-Judaization of the Holocaust,’ manifestations of competitive victimhood, and a way of hiding the problem of complicity in the Holocaust.
The Golden Mean Principle. A Handful of Comments on the Currently Dominant Discourse on ‘Polish-Jewish Relations’
Author(s): Forecki, Piotr; Zawadzka, Anna
Date: 2017
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish Leadership, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Other, Memory
Abstract: The article attempts to deconstruct the dominant Polish discourse regarding the ‘Polish-Jewish relations’. Its central figures are: the logic of the golden mean as a tool to reach historical truth, symmetrisation of Polish and Jewish wrongs and faults, and hospitality as the prevalent attitude of Poles towards Jews. The authors show its opinion forming power using three examples: a review of Paweł Pawlikowski’s film Ida, the reception of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and a discussion on the Righteous monuments, which were to be erected in Warsaw.
Od Shoah do Strachu Spory o polsko-żydowską przeszłość i pamięć w debatach publicznych
Translated Title: From Shoah to Fear Disputes about the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates
Author(s): Forecki, Piotr
Date: 2010
Topics: Holocaust, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory
Abstract: Gdy przypominamy sobie, co o postawie Polaków wobec Żydów pisał w raporcie Jan Karski, co w "Gospodarce wyłączonej" zanotował Kazimierz Wyka, a Stanisław Ossowski po pogromie kieleckim, uderza nas odkrywczość ich spojrzenia. Jak to się dzieje, że ludzie sprzed kilku dekad nie tylko dotrzymują nam kroku, ale wręcz wyprzedzają ostatnie nasze konstatacje? Piotr Forecki wykonał olbrzymią pracę dokumentacyjną i interpretacyjną. Wraz z tą książką kończy się "okres heroiczny" w refleksji o polskiej pamięci powojennej.Rozpoczyna się okres naukowy.