Nazistowskie badania antropologiczne i ludoznawcze na Podhalu. Dokument i pamięć
Nazi Anthropological and Folklore Studies in the Podhale Region. Document and Memory

Summary/Abstract: The authors are interested in the documentation created at the time of the Second World War by the Nazi Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Cracow, and predominantly by one of its sections – Sektion Rassen und Volkstumforschung, involved in anthropological and ethnographic studies focused on selected groups of the population of the General Government, including highlanders of the Podhale region. The prime task of the project realized by M. Maj is to examine and partly verify heretofore knowledge about the work performed by Sektion Rassen- und Volkstumforschung IDO in Podhale during the 1941-1942 period upon the basis of an extensive collection of previously unknown documents, in 2008 entrusted to the Jagiellonian University Archives. At the same time, by referring to accounts by still living persons (at the time, school children) subjected to anthropological and medical examinations, the authors tried to demonstrate the way in which the campaign conducted by Nazi anthropologists left an imprint upon the children’s memory.

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