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The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015 - The Story of Innocence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Holocaust Bystander in Polish Culture, 1942-2015 - The Story of Innocence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in
which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the
bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since
the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority
politics of memory. The category is of performative character since
it defines the roles of event participants, assumes passivity of
the non-Jewish environment, and alienates the exterminated, thus
making it impossible to speak about the bystanders' violence at the
border between the ghetto and the 'Aryan' side. Bystanders were
neither passive nor distanced; rather, they participated and played
important roles in Nazi plans. Starting with the war, the authors
analyze the functions of this category in the Polish discourse of
memory through following its changing forms and showing links with
social practices organizing the collective memory. Despite being
often critiqued, this point of dispute about Polish memory rarely
belongs to mainstream culture. It also blocks the memory of Polish
violence against Jews. The book is intended for students and
researchers interested in memory studies, the history of the
Holocaust, the memory of genocide, and the war and postwar cultures
of Poland and Eastern Europe.
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