Tożsamościowe roz-poznania. Doświadczenia Zagłady na wsi
Identity Matters: The Experience of the Shoah in the Village

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the experience of the Shoah in the countryside as described from two perspectives – Jewish (victim) and Polish (bystander-witness). A key question is how identity is conceptualized in the face of liminal experience in two narratives, namely Tadeusz Nowak’s work belonging to the so-called peasant tradition in Polish literature, as well as the diary of Melania Weissenberg, a Jew who hid in a village. These different narratives are linked above all by the place, as both are set in the vicinity of Dąbrowa Tarnowska. Koprowska discusses the works of Nowak and Weissenberg as examples of literary responses to the Shoah in a local village context.

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