Przyzwyczajenie do Zagłady Żydów – analiza i interpretacja utworu Odpływający ogród Idy Fink
Getting used to the Holocaust – analysis and interpretation of Ida Fink’s The Garden That Floated Away

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at analysis and interpretation of the Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust as depicted in Fink’s The Garden That Floated Away. Drawing her inspiration mostly from the works of Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann and Jolanta Brach-Czaina, the author analyses the everyday lives of the story’s protagonists, trying to extract and juxtapose the elements of the old (from before the war and the Holocaust) and the new reality. The central notion here is that of the witness of the Holocaust and the condition of habituation – treating the events of the Holocaust as the ordinary, everyday phenomena which do not need to be reflected upon.

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