Roma Sendyka, Poza obozem. Nie-miejsca pamięci - próba rozpoznania
Review of: Roma Sendyka, Poza obozem. Nie-miejsca pamięci - próba rozpoznania, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2021, ss. 365
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Review of: Roma Sendyka, Poza obozem. Nie-miejsca pamięci - próba rozpoznania, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2021, ss. 365
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The writer Petru Popescu (born 1944) entered Romanian literature in the late 1960s and almost imme- diately gained the interest of critics and readers. His novels were innovative not only in terms of bold themes but also of narrative strategies. This article focuses on Petru Popescu’s work written in exile in English, i.e., from the late 1970s until 2009. His texts vary significantly, as Popescu tried his hand at several literary genres, from popular novels (Before and after Edith, In Hot Blood), travelogues (Amazon Beaming), adventure novels (Almost Adam), and adolescents’ literature (Footprints in Time) to his memoir (The Return) and the more stylized memoir about his parents-in-law (The Oasis: A mem- oir of Love and Survival in a Concentration Camp).
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Review of: Holokaust i Hiroszima w perspektywie porównawczej. Pamięć o drugiej wojnie światowej w Polsce i Japonii, red. A. Katō i J. Leociak, Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, Warszawa 2020, ss. 214
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The article describes the history of the Jewish community in Dąbie nad Nerem from the beginning of settlement to the end of its existence during World War II. The text has been divided into two parts. The first describes in a synthetic way the most important features of the population in different epochs, the next focuses on the period of war and the Holocaust. New, previously unused source resources were exploited in the form of documents, source editions and various databases.
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Between 1946 and 1950, municipal courts in Poland declared dead or pronounced dead persons missing and died during World War II on a large scale. The basis for these rulings was primarily the 1945 Law on Persons Decree, created as a result of the great unification process of civil law in Poland. The decree was intended to regulate the civil and property status of the population in connection with wartime personal losses. In the Bialystok Municipal Court, such proceedings involved 2,278 people. Most of them were civilian victims of the war, which makes clear the nature of World War II. About half of the proceedings concerned the Jewish population, as more than 90% of Bialystok Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. The preserved court case files are a very important historical source for the history of the war in Bialystok County. The article presents court proceedings in the case of Jozef Ostruszka, the last president of the Bialystok District Court before the war, being declared dead. He was deported by the Soviets to the Komi Republic and died of exhaustion there. The proceedings were held at the request of his wife, who survived the war. Jozef Ostruszka was one of more than a dozen Bialystok courts officers who lost their lives during the war. Their fate requires further research.
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Review of: Jiří Křivský, Marie Křížková: Richard - Podzemní továrna a koncentrační tábor v Litoměřicích (Richard - Unterirdische Fabrik und Konzentrationslager in Leitmeritz), Památník Terezín, 1967, 32 S., 11 Abb.
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The article is devoted to the life and work of the German-Jewish poetess Gertrud Groag born in Moravia and in 1942 imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto. Before the war she composed lyric poems and her collection of poems analysed by the author of the paper, “Lieder einer Krankenschwester“, was written directly in Terezin. The article includes some examples of her Terezin poems.
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Last year, when the whole mankind recalled the fortieth anniversary of the end of the greatest and most destructive war in the history of the world, we took stock of the work of the State Jewish Museum in Prague and its publication activities, represented primarily by the journal Judaica Bohemiae. We work mostly in the field of history, and when considering our work, we have realized again that history is living only if we find in it some lesson for the present and the future. When assessing the results of our work, we considered both the activities of the Museum and the publishing of this journal which is inseparably connected with the former. It is this very journal which, apart from permanent and seasonal exhibitions, forms a link between the Museum and its visitors and all those who are interested in the history and the present of the State Jewish Museum and the Jewish community in Prague, all those who are interested in the artistic monuments of the past, and all those who do not forget the hard reality and cruelty of the last war — the period of the Holocaust.
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U Šapcu je 2. septembra 2019. godine, u organizaciji opštine Šabac, Instituta za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju Univerziteta u Beogradu i Trećeg programa Radio Beograda, u okviru „Dana jevrejske kulture“ u šabačkoj sinagogi održan okrugli sto o temi Da li se Holokaust može ponoviti?
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Added to the paper “Literarisches Schaffen erwachsener Häftlinge im Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt, I. (Tschechische literarische Tätigkeit)“ published in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. XX/1984, No. 2, are two Czech poems by Jindřich Kraus and Jiří Stein. Both of them are also translated into German.
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The information about the creation of the ghetto in Warsaw was announced on 12 October 1940, and the final closure took place just over a month later. Ultimately, more than 400,000 people were imprisoned within the ghetto walls. The need to organise life in a reality that was completely different from that of the pre-war time led many Warsaw Jews to reflect on the essence of the ghetto and try to compare this phenomenon to other, often better, though usually only theoretically familiar places and spaces. Hence the large number of synonymous, entirely unofficial terms for the ghetto, referring to its various features. The most common terms include: labyrinth, trap, closed city, prison or camp, although apart from the most popular ones, both period sources and postwar memoirs contain many unobvious metaphors for the Warsaw Ghetto, its peculiar new “own names”, created from scratch, whether as a result of a deeper reflection or simply stemming from the need of the moment, as a reaction to what was happening around. A handful of the most interesting, least known and at the same time very telling names will be presented, together with the context of their creation.
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The article is devoted to children’s home I in L 417 in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto. The boys led by professor W. Eisinger called their Terezin home the “Republic of Shkid“ (“Shkid“ stands for “škola imeni Dostojevskogo“, i.e. Dostoyevsky’s school). They followed the example of a Leningrad establishment for homeless children. The boys were also issuing an illegal mazagine of their own called “Vedem“, which is mentioned at the end of the article.
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The author commemorates the mass execution of prisoners from the Terezin concentration camp in Birkenau on the night of March 8-9, 1944. The article was written on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of this tragic event, which represents the most terrible mass murder of Terezin prisoners. It makes the readers acquainted with the establishment of the Terezin family camp in Birkenau, describes the mass murder of 3,791 Terezin prisoners and analyses the evidence preserved of attempts at organizing resistance.
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The contribution is devoted to the activities of the Central Jewish Museum in Prague in the period of World War II. It draws on documents concerning the wartime museum, above all minutes of meetings held by the representatives of the Jewish staff, and pays attention to the conflicts between the representatives of the museum and their Nazi supervisors, members of the SS.
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The first part of this paper appeared in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. XIV/1978, No. 1. This second part, too, deals with children’s home I in house L 417 in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto, mainly with the magazine “Vedem“ issued by the boys, who called their group “The Republic of Skid“. The magazine included articles on life in Terezin, literary productions by young authors, as well as articles of ideological content written mostly by professor - tutor V. Eisinger, who was in charge of the boys.
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Published here are fifty-four documents concerning the period reaching from July 1941 to February 1943 in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto.
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The third part of the paper on the “Republic of Škid“, one of children’s homes in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto (parts 1 and 2 were published in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. XIV/1978, No. 1 and XVI/1980, No. 2). It presents examples of essays and poems published by the boys and their teachers in the magazine “Vedem“ (Petr Gins, Rudolf Laub, O. Guttmann, Herbert Fischel, Hanuš Hachenburg, Jiří Kotouč, Josef Stiassný, V. Eisinger, Zd. Weinberger, Zd. Ohrenstein, and others).
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The article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Nazi annihilation of the Czech village of Lidice. It also includes the German poem, “Die Schafe von Liditz“, by Ilse Weber, who was imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp-ghetto and perished in Auschwitz.
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