Wojna bezsilnych. Niekończąca się historia
The War of the Helpless: A Never-Ending History

Summary/Abstract: This article is about helpless people during World War II: victims, civilians, people who are marginalised, ill, injured, old, imprisoned, etc. Dauksza also reconstructs the mechanisms of dealing with helpless people in the postwar era – their renewed stigmatisation. She demonstrates that for many decades political and social practices as well as research on the war and the Shoah have focused on heroic history – heroes, victories, military superiority, the perpetrators and their devastating activities as well as active witnesses who testify. Dauksza calls for a turn towards different individuals – those who are helpless, inactive, weak, unheroic and subject to other people’s decisions. A narrative about them would show different aspects of World War II and suggest a reinterpretation of historical politics in Europe, even today.

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