Stracone twarze Lublina
The Lost Faces of Lublin

Summary/Abstract: An essay discussing the most significant accomplishments of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz concerning the memory of the annihilated Jewish community of pre-war Lublin. The author outlined an in-depth portrait of Pietrasiewicz as an artist who not only stood up for memory but also decided to wage a battle against the foundation of “dark utopia”, i.e. the Holocaust, which was not limited to a methodically conducted physical extermination but aimed at a total destruction of all traces of the annihilated Jews. The struggle proposed by Pietrasiewicz assumed the form of building a “light utopia”, i.e. an attempt at salvaging every trace of the existence of the exterminated residents of the “Jewish town” in Lublin.

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