Voices from the “Last Ring” – Between Life and Death, the Past and the Temporal Universe Cover Image

Głosy z „Ostatniego kręgu” – między życiem a śmiercią, przeszłością a uniwersum czasowym
Voices from the “Last Ring” – Between Life and Death, the Past and the Temporal Universe

Author(s): Elżbieta M. Kur
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: “Voices from the “Last Ring”: Józef Kret and Zofia Hoszowska-Kretowa’s Correspondence from the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz”; Nazism; science in the Third Reich

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by the book Voices from the “Last Ring”: Józef Kret and Zofia Hoszowska-Kretowa’s Correspondence from the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (Katowice 2020), this article contains a reflection on Nazism, education, science and ideology in the Third Reich. The reason for taking up these issues and the main topic of the article is the rich contextuality in this interpretative approach to Voices from the “Last Ring”. The research methodology indicated in the article is primarily the text-oriented and the contextual analysis and interpretation, which takes into account other perspectives (e.g., editorial, bibliological, genological, historical, and cultural). The value of the source publication analyzed here consists in its rich contextuality, which prompts research in such areas as, for example, science and education in totalitarian systems, epistolography, and censorship.

  • Issue Year: 29/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-14
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish