Doświadczenie bez nazwy. „Oświęcim” ≠ Auschwitz
Experience without a Name: ‘Oświęcim’ ≠ Auschwitz
Author(s): Agnieszka DaukszaSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Jewish studies, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Politics of History/Memory, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: survivors; Poles; Jews; concentration camps; memory
Summary/Abstract: Dauksza examines the status of non-Jewish Polish concentration camp survivors. Their wartime experience and the way in which they functioned after the war has always been and continues to be different from the Jewish experience. Based on empirical studies, Dauksza argues that the problem is that their experience is ‘an experience without a name’: unable to name it, they are also unable to experience what happened to a significant group of Poles during the occupation. The question concerns not only actual former prisoners and their relatives – as the framework of post-memory transfer would suggest – but also individuals who for several years lived in fear of being deported, as well as those who witnessed the deportation of others, including Jews.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 233-249
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
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