Zapomniane, wyparte. O literackich przedstawieniach Zagłady (wybrane teksty wydane w Polsce w latach 50. i 60.)
Forgotten, Denied (Selected Texts Published in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s.)

Summary/Abstract: The article looks at the question whether subjects dealing with the Poles’ attitude toward the Jews during the Holocaust times cropped up in Polish literature from the 1950s and 1960s, subjects that caused a kind of scandal when approached several decades later. This means such matters as instances of killing Jews during the Warsaw rising, the reactions of onlookers watching the ghetto go up in flames, the so-called man-in the-street comments on the perishing Jews, etc. The author believes that such subjects appeared—and quite often too—in short stories and books by such authors as Adolf Rudnicki, Kazimierz Brandys, Ludwik Hering, Mieczysław Frenkiel and others. What was it then that suppressed this knowledge? There is every indication that it was the way memory was moulded through the official discourse, in textbooks and in propaganda.

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