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Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 (Paperback, New)
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Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979 (Paperback, New)
Series: Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
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Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as
Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of
Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the
postwar world. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration
is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the
Polish People's Republic. Since 1945, Auschwitz has functioned as a
memorial and museum. Its monuments, exhibitions, and public spaces
have attracted politicians, pilgrims, and countless participants in
public demonstrations and commemorative events. Jonathan Huener's
study begins with the liberation of the camp and traces the history
of the State Museum at Auschwitz from its origins immediately after
the war until the 1980s, analyzing the landscape, exhibitions, and
public events at the site. Based on extensive research and
illustrated with archival photographs, Auschwitz, Poland, and the
Politics of Commemoration accounts for the development and
durability of a Polish commemorative idiom at Auschwitz. Emphasis
on Polish national "martyrdom" at Auschwitz, neglect of the Shoah
as the most prominent element of the camp's history, political
instrumentalization of the grounds and exhibitions-these were some
of the more controversial aspects of the camp's postwar landscape.
Professor Huener locates these and other public manifestations of
memory at Auschwitz in the broad scope of Polish history, in the
specific context of postwar Polish politics and culture, and
against the background of Polish-Jewish relations. Auschwitz,
Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration will be of interest to
scholars, students, and general readers of the history of modern
Poland and the Holocaust.
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