Adam Zurawin - a Hero of a Thousand Faces

• Authors: Haska A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses unpublished memoirs of Adam Zurawin, a Gestapo informer, believed to have been involved in the so-called 'Hotel Polski Affair'. Zurawin wrote them shortly before his death. They offer a rare opportunity to look at a German collaborator through his own eyes. The analysis is carried out from a few complementary points of view: historical (comparison with other sources), literary criticism (the poetics of personal document and self-creation), and psychological (motivations, feelings). Indeed, in his memoirs, Zurawin portrays himself as a knight-hero figure, who had never tarnished his hands with collaboration, but played a game with the Germans (and with the Poles), aimed only at saving his own family. The authoress tries to find what factors are involved in this self-creation.

Keywords

EN

HOLOCAUST - SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES; HOTEL POLSKI AFFAIR; JEWISH-GERMAN RELATIONS; ZURAWIN ADAM MEMOIRS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 2
• Pages: 177-201
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Haska A.

• A. Haska, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03066298