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The Unbearable Lightness of Representation

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the issue of the inevitable "effacement" of memory of war and the Holocaust in the context of the Polish education system and historical policy toward places of torture, as well as the representation of this process in culture (e.g. inMirosław Bałka's Winterreise) – particularly in our era of omnipresent social networking and the tools they use to express opinions and to evaluate. Focusing on the example of the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum, the author details various mechanisms that manipulate emotions and construct stereotypes.

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