The Holocaust bystander in Polish culture, 1942-2015 : the story of innocence / / Maryla Hopfinger, Tomasz Zukowski, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 364 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.531503924
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland
• Persona (resp. second.): HopfingerMaryla; ŻukowskiTomasz <1969->
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: We Are All Witnesses. Instead of an Introduction -- The Witness Between 1942 and 2015 -- Pre-action -- The Time of the Holocaust -- After the War -- October 1956 -- The 1960s -- March 1968 -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The Breakthrough Events of 1989 -- Neighbors -- References -- Chapter 2: Constructing the Figure of the Polish Shoah Witness -- The Witness: Introductory Comments -- Polish Guilt: The Polish Bystander -- Back to the Beginning: The 1940s -- Press Releases -- Moral Testimony -- Antoni Szymanowski, Likwidacja ghetta warszawskiego. Reportaż -- Maria Kann, Na oczach świata -- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Protest! -- References -- Chapter 3: Alternative Narratives of the 1940s Versus the Politics of Memory -- Outline of the Situation After 1945 -- The Politics of Memory: Immediately After the War -- Beyond the Politics of Memory: The War and Post-war Years -- Reactions to the Holocaust -- Czesław Miłosz -- Jerzy Andrzejewski -- Ludwik Hering -- Kazimierz Wyka -- In the Shadow of Post-war Pogroms -- A Catholic Voice. A Dual Perspective -- References -- Chapter 4: Hand in Hand. Calling on Witnesses to Polish-Jewish Brotherhood -- Vilification of the Polish Nation -- "A Concerted Campaign" -- Mila 18 -- The Samaritans. Heroes of the Holocaust -- The Right Answer -- Historical Politics in the 1960s -- Conversations with an Executioner -- Nazism and Communism: Equalization -- Metaphysics of Polishness -- Jewish Ingratitude -- Shielding the Flame -- The Price Witness Pays -- References -- Chapter 5: Bearing Witness to Witnessing: Jewish Narratives About Polish "Witnesses" to the Holocaust -- Mimesis -- The Law of Mimesis -- Erasure -- The Spectacle of Free Will -- "A Great Adventure" -- Assimilation as Illusion -- "Flawed?"16 -- Decontextualization. ; Once Again, More Bluntly -- Every Why Has a Wherefore -- References -- Chapter 6: The Guilt of Indifference -- Witnesses or Participants? -- Censorship -- This Has happened Among Us -- Complicity and Shared Responsibility -- Facts and Escape From the Facts -- Norms, Behaviors and Attitudes -- Removal of Unwanted Knowledge -- Obviousness or Criticism? -- An Error Among One's Own -- Discourse Analysis -- A Blind Spot -- The "Actual State of Affairs" and a Moral Dilemma -- Sources and Voice of the Victims: Disturbed Self-image -- "God has stopped this hand" -- Repetition -- References -- Chapter 7: Nostalgic Archeology and Critical Archeology -- Nostalgic Archeology -- Preview: Taking Over and Concealing Jewish History -- Reconstruction and Identification -- The Disappearance of Jews -- The Nostalgic Subject and Emptiness -- Critical Archeology -- Under the Surface -- Traces Speak About Us -- Deconstruction of Inexpressibility -- Discovery of Agency, Revision of Identity -- References -- Chapter 8: Documents and Fictions -- The Eye of the Witness: Whose Eye Is That? -- An Album About the Holocaust -- From the Liquidation Report -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- The Footbridge -- A Tram Through the Ghetto -- Executions -- The Burning Ghetto -- Pictures for Sale -- The Carousel -- Evacuation Which Was Not There... -- The Good Poles -- The Margins -- Children Speaking in Adult Voices (Reviewers Are Delighted) -- People Who Walked -- Karolina and Piotr Jakoweńko, Jewish Żarki. Lost Photographs. Będzin: Fundacja Cukermana, 2016 -- References -- Correction to: The Guilt of Indifference -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Holocaust bystander in Polish culture, 1942-2015
• ISBN: 3-030-66408-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483220003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict