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Krajobraz pośmiertny. Las Rzuchowski w perspektywie forensycznej

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Smykowski M.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

2018

vol. 72

issue 4(323)

355-368

The article intends to present inspirations derived from the so-called forensic turn in studies dealing with the landscape of the former death camp in Chełmno on the Ner (Kulmhof), and in particular its woodland (Waldlager Kulmhof) located in the Rzuchów Forest Unit (Forest District Koło). Here the forensic turn is understood not as a politically motivated “exhumation movement” but as special interest in the material remains of the Holocaust, regarded as evidence and inspiring the construction of complementary interpretations combining the humanities and social sciences with criminal justice and sciences dealing with life. The article will demonstrate how the accomplishments of contemporary anthropology and legal archaeology, bio-archaeology, taphonomy, and studies dealing with the environmental history of the Holocaust can enrich the humanistic comprehension of the landscape. The sources at the basis of the reflections are the outcome of state investigations and testimonies of the survivors and witnesses of the extermination of the Jewish population in Chełmno on the Ner. The article follows the procedures of the extermination of the victims, the ways of processing human remains and their subsequent scattering in the natural landscape as a consequence of a directive calling for a total elimination of all material evidence (especially bodies of the murdered people). Within the forensic approach to the post-Holocaust landscape of the Rzuchowski Forest, which conceals the ashes of the victims, and thus human remains fragmented to a form that often makes identification impossible, the author of the article posed the following questions: what sort of a role is played by human remains that cannot become the object of research conducted by medical doctors, anthropologists or court archaeologists since the state of preservation renders impossible or completely excludes standard research procedures? How is one to examine a landscape containing the ashes of thousands of victims? How is the landscape to be treated as proof of the Holocaust?

Testament – przypadek obozu śmierci Kulmhof

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Elmanowska B.

Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media

2014

issue 2(3)

77-91

Artykuł dotyczy testamentu – gatunku będącego na pograniczu prawa i literatury dokumentu osobistego. Autorka analizuje różnice w rozumieniu terminu oraz jego uwikłanie w czas i miejsce powstania, zwłaszcza testamentu, który został napisany w czasie Holocaustu. W artykule przedstawiono przypadek testamentów ostatnich więźniów obozu śmierci Kulmhof (dzisiejsze Chełmno), między innymi takich autorów jak Izrael Żurawski i Szymon Srebrnik – dwóch więźniów, którzy uciekli z Kulmhof w styczniu 1945 roku. Autorka artykułu śledzi również wszystkie sprzeczne informacje na temat wyżej wymienionych testamentów.

The article is about a testament as a genre which is classified on the border between law and personal document literature. The author analyses differences in understanding of this term and how it depends on the time and place it was written in, especially in the case of a testament written during the Holocaust. The article presents cases of testaments of the last prisoners of the Kulmhof death camp (today Chełmno) including Izrael Żurwaski and Szymon Srebrnik – two prisoners who escaped from Kulmhof in January 1945. The author also tracks every contradictory information concerning these testaments.

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Krajobraz pośmiertny. Las Rzuchowski w perspektywie forensycznej

Testament – przypadek obozu śmierci Kulmhof