Kłopotliwa kategoria. Wokół tomu Świadek: jak się staje, czym jest?
Troublesome Category – On the book Świadek: jak się staje, czym jest?

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the interdisciplinary volume Świadek: jak się staje, czym jest? [Witness: how does one become one, what it is?], edited by Agnieszka Dauksza and Karolina Koprowska that summarizes the long debate on the significance of testimony and the function of witness of various forms of violence. She focuses on the Holocaust witness that plays a substantial role in the research of the attitude of Poles to Jews during the war, showing how imprecise this category is and how it calls for more precision in its formulation. She also touches upon a problem of non-human witnesses as well as the scope of power of the witness and the testimony, and the institution that control it in different ways.

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