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Polish memory of the Holocaust in the 21st century: the art of remembering and forgetting
Author(s): Kubińska, Olga; Kubiński, Wojciech
Date: 2024
Topics: Holocaust, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory
Abstract: Ongoing discussion on collective memory in contemporary Poland requires constant efforts to define and redefine the objects under dispute, particularly in reference to the Holocaust and the Second World War. What requires such redefinition is the very area to be scrutinized and the basic terminology to be implemented, with the necessity to discriminate between collective memory shaped by official historical policy, collective memory shaped by historians, writers and artists, alongside the officially sanctioned memory. The question arises whether the memory shaped by historians, writers and artists forms an alternative to the officially canonized variant and whether in these circumstances we keep looking at distinct, mutually exclusive memories.