Społeczeństwo postronnych śledzi sprawę Eichmanna. Recepcja procesu w Polsce lat 60.
A Society of Bystanders Follows the Eichmann Case: The Reception of the Trial in Poland in the 1960s
Author(s): Jakub MuchowskiSubject(s): Jewish studies, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish cultures of commemoration; Polish People’s Republic; Adolf Eichmann; Holocaust memory;
Summary/Abstract: Researchers agree that the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 fundamentally transformed the memory of the Shoah and caused its rapid expansion in the West. Muchowski discusses the reception of this event in Poland, a country that the Iron Curtain separated from these memory processes. Examining exemplary reactions to the trial in the first half of the 1960s, Muchowski shows how the trial strengthened or weakened Polish paradigms of remembering the extermination of Europe’s Jews – paradigms already described by other researchers, such as viewing Holocaust victims as a multinational group, the story of the innocent Polish victim and the anti-German discourse.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 110-129
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish
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