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This article describes the very varied, and at times, surprising role of Jewish women in the Kraków Ghetto during World War Two.
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W czerwcu 1942 roku Emanuel Ringelblum zauważył, że temat żydowskich lektur w gettach będzie interesował świat. Tak zakreślony problem badawczy nie doczekał się dotąd kompletnego studium. Autorka artykułu Resztki liter. Trzy paradygmaty lekturowe w gettach poddała refleksji ten aspekt historii gett. Literatura w nich obecna pozwala na rzucenie światła na temat życia i umierania ich mieszkańców. Ale podjęcie tego tematu pozwala także uaktywnić nowe tropy w lekturach książek, po które sięgali Żydzi. Tomy, z którymi spędzali czas, pozwalają uchwycić, jak mieszkańcy gett budowali więź z rzeczywistością, jak uczyli dzieci czytać lub znajdowali konsolidację w opisanym cierpieniu. Autorka stawia także pytanie, czy studia nad „zwyczajnym” życiem podczas Holokaustu można uznać za mikrohistoryczne.
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In June 1942 Emanuel Ringelblum asked: “What kind of books do people read? This topic has always been interesting for each Jew and after the war it also became interesting to the world”. This topic hasn’t received a comprehensive study yet. The author of the paper The Remains of the Letters. Three Reading Paradigms in the Ghettos examined this aspect of history of the ghettos. The literature allows us to shed light on the topic of the life and deaths of their inhabitants. But, taking up this topic enables us also to activate new ways of interpreting the books. The volumes they spent time on in the ghetto allow to capture the way the residents of the ghettos built or broke the bond with the reality, how they taught their own children to read or found solace in someone else’s pain. The author considers, however, whether the studies of ordinary life in extraordinary times of the Holocaust can be considered micro-historical.
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The aim of the paper is to discuss the role of literary output of William Shakespeare in post‑memorial discourse about Holocaust. It analyzes various culture texts (film and theater adaptations, memoirs, essays and short stories) devoted to Holocaust, which refer to the dramatic heritage of English playwright. It discusses the phenomena of post‑Holocaust Shakespearean theatre treated as a medium for commemoration of the past. It focuses on Shakespeare’s motifs in post‑Holocaust literature and film.
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The article author claims that Ida Fink’s The Journey can help attract young readers’ attention to the traumatic experiences of Jews during World War II. The analysis of the events described in the novel and, above all, the behaviour of the main character and the narrator, helps to create an understanding and empathic attitude towards the suffering of others. The article author claims that reading texts written by people who survived the Holocaust can initiate reflection that condemns racist and xenophobic behaviour and statements.
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The article analyzes the image of Buenos Aires in the narrative of Ana María Shua, an Argentine writer of Polish Jewish descent. Urban space plays an important role in her prose described often as apocalyptic or dystopian. Through a historiographical metafiction, the author rewrites the memory of the ancestors in El libro de los recuerdos (2007), a novel that presents the life of Jewish immigrants in the capital of Argentina, divided into neighborhoods marked by their ethnicity. Eroticism and the use of the female body are, on the other hand, the topics that dominate in the author’s collection of micro-stories titled Casa de geishas (2009), where the brothel is described as a singular ghetto, rooted in the city panorama. Finally, the novel La muerte como efecto secundario offers a dystopic description of a future of a ghettoized city, where compulsory geriatric ghettos become a reality. The article, based on the analysis of the aforementioned works, presents a critical look at the use of the concept of “ghetto” or “urban island” in the construction of the narrative structure and space in Ana María Shua’s fiction.
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The article shows Romany life in Lunik 9 ghetto in Koszyce, Slovakia. The aim of this text is to underline the existence of such place in the modern, civilised world and formulate the reasons of it. Despite the European Union policy, improvement of Romanies living conditions and their functioning in Slovakian society is still dissatisfactory. From one hand the article makes a point of lack of humanity in still changing Slovakian government, but from the other hand it also shows the complexed nature of Romanies and appreciates strenuous work of people who really want to change this situation. Highlighting complicated issues of the case should also make readers give some thought to harmful stereotypes the Romanies often struggle with.
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The main purpose of this article is to analyse the reception of Izabela Glebard’s (Czajka-Stachowicz’s) works, with particular emphasis on her only book of poety Pieśni żałobne getta . At first Gelbard intentionally chooses poetry, but after the experience of World War II, she leaves it completely and repleces by prose. The root cause of this state of affairs is the war trauma. Very important is also the critical attitude of the writer to her poems. These works have not been appreciated by literary critics who treat them as a document and testimony rather than a valuable poetry. It seems that the Gelbard poems, like all her works, are waiting for a new, contextual reading.
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The rescue of Jews during the Second World War is one of the least studied issues in the historiography of the Holocaust. The Galicia Region, one of the areas where a total Nazi extermination of Jews occurred, became a region from where a large number of Righteous Among the Nations came – Ukrainians and Poles. The article includes an analysis of the motivations that became the basis for people’s decision to help Jews under the extreme conditions which threatened their lives and the lives of their close ones. It highlights the response of the occupation authorities to rescue actions taken by the non-Jewish population. Despite the unambiguity of the Nazi orders to punish severely those who helped Jews, the real implementation of such sanctions varied. Finally, the article analyses the main determinants (of social, economic, and religious nature) that played an important role in making the decision whether to join the rescue process. The article concludes that no political which could had saved Jews, did lead to any systematic rescue efforts directed at Western Ukrainian Jews, yet the survival of those Jews who were hunter was possible for the deeds of some Polish and Ukrainian people.
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The main aim of the article is an interpretation of novels written by Piotr Paziński – especially Birds’ streets (Ptasie ulice) from 2013, but also Guesthouse (Pensjonat) from 2009. In his prose the author is always searching for traces of Jewish identity and memory of the war-time in contemporary Warsaw (and its surroundings). His literary strategy is a kind of spatial obsession – he exhibits places: destroyed, ruined or removed as a sign of lost memory about Jewish history in Polish space. Individual identity of characters created in his novels (as well as possibly his own self-identification) is formed during the recognition of places connected with singular biography and common history.
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More and more frequently a notion of space ghettoization is used to describe a phenomenon of dividing urban space into various enclaves of social life-or socially isolated worlds. Ghettoization that we describe results from various social processes which are increasingly reflected in urban space. It results from differences in the economic standard of inhabitants of given areas (riches–poverty) There is one more criterion, very important if we view the case from a profoundly humanistic perspective-the criterion of social emotions accompanying urban space. This justifies the title of this article. Today’s ghettoes may result from relatively automatic choices (lifestyles) and relatively objective processes-marginalization. We will try to make a general outline of the problems of ghettoization in a traditional industrial region, namely in Upper Silesia, related to diversification of income as well as the aesthetic and architectonic and urban criteria.
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This article focuses on the writing process of Juliusz Krzyżewski’s “Idée fixe” and the Shoah connotations of this poem. As it is shown in the text, the Winogórowie – a Jewish family – and the Mrozińscy – a Polish family – had been friends whose contact and mutual help did not cease when the Winogórowie were ghettoised in Falenica. It is argued that this situation was made possible by the forest separating Międzylesie from Falenica. In this forest, the poet, who later inscribed himself as a witness in “Idée fixe,” met girls escaping from the ghetto. Not only does the author of this article ponder upon the question why Krzyżewski has left these events unmentioned for so many years, but also he attempts to present not just the poet, but the poetry as a witness.
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Autor szkicu rekonstruuje zawiłą historię powstania wiersza Juliusza Krzyżewskiego Idée fixe i wskazuje na jego związki z Zagładą. Przypomina wojenne losy żydowskiej rodziny Winogórów zaprzyjaźnionej z polską rodziną Mrozińskich. Rodziny te, mimo zamknięcia Winogórów w getcie w Falenicy, kontaktowały się i pomagały sobie. Z ustaleń autora wynika, że ważną rolę we wzajemnych kontaktach odegrał las dzielący Międzylesie od Falenicy. To tam wymykające się z getta dziewczęta spotkał poeta, który później przedstawił siebie w Idée fixe jako świadka. Badacz stara się zrozumieć także, dlaczego Krzyżewski tak długo ukrywał zdarzenia, które zobaczył, i pokazać nie tylko poetę, ale przede wszystkim poezję w roli świadka.
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The article contains terminological considerations concerning the term ‘camp literature’. In Polish literary studies it is most often referred to literature dealing with German Nazi camps, in particular concentration camps and death camps, and, less frequently, Soviet camps, especially forced labor camps. However, this definition turns out to be too narrow. It should also include the lesser-known works of Polish literature concerning, among others, the Polish internment camp (concentration camp) in Bereza Kartuska, communist labor camps set up in postwar Poland and the Spanish (Francoist) concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro. The term ‘camp literature’ could also include works on internment camps, prisoner camps, and even ghettos. The camp literaturę (not only Polish writings) requires, what is very important, a comparative approach.
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In the text the author attempts to describe the language identity of ghetto in the anti-Semitic discourse, in which the demands of “ghettoization” of the Jews returned in the 30’s of the twentieth century, also in Poland. Before the rise of the shameful wall, before the “Nazi Jewish Quarter” will be the vestibule of hell, the ghetto turns out to be a language construct in a radical right wing of journalism, built by stunts available not only in journalism, but in the language of fiction able to create worlds, in this case – of totalitarian future. It is almost a phantasm, “the place of the intention”, while the language, which “describes” / “imagines” the anti-Semitism by the anti-Semites themselves, is benefited by “creating not directly”, by a future designation (as it results in the plan of the Nazi ghetto settlement). The ghetto as a phantasm, synecdoche, metaphor, symbol; Jews as dehumanised by language space creatures – create a “comfortable” for the anti-Semites and anti-Semitic discourse concept, in which the Jew, as an identity, as I, is less and less concrete, deprived of individualism with time – with plots – starting to mean pure Evil. The place, however, in which are the Jews settled by the totalitarian imagination is (despite the ambiguity of its defining strategies available in the anti-Semitic journalism), paradoxically, more and more specific, although the language generating discursive ambiguity – in line with the inhuman plan of totalitarian history, will begin in a moment to be implemented in the occupied Europe.
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Recenzja publikacji: Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto. An Everyday History of Theresienstadt, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, pp. 376
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The aim of the article is to present the issue related to the presence of officers of the Polish Police of the General Government in the reports of members of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW). ŻZW in its ranks focused mainly on right-wing Zionists and together with the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ŻOB) co-founded the Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw Ghetto. Due to the fact that the history of ŻZW is controversial among historians, the work will include, inter alia, the ideological roots of this organisation and basic information about its activity in the Warsaw Ghetto. The relations used in the article arose from 1943 to 1963 in both English and Polish.
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Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie problematyki związanej z obecnością funkcjonariuszy Policji Polskiej Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w meldunkach członków Żydowskiego Związku Wojskowego (ŻZW). ŻZW w swoich szeregach skupiał się głównie na prawicowych syjonistach i wspólnie z Żydowską Organizacją Bojową (ŻOB) współtworzył żydowski ruch oporu w getcie warszawskim. Ze względu na to, że historia ŻZW budzi kontrowersje wśród historyków, w pracy zostaną uwzględnione m.in. korzenie ideowe tej organizacji oraz podstawowe informacje o jej działalności w getcie warszawskim. Relacje użyte w artykule powstały w latach 1943-1963 zarówno w języku angielskim, jak i polskim.
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Camp literature. Introduction

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This article includes a terminological discussion regarding the notion of camp literature. Within Polish literary science, it is usually applied to literature raising the topic of German Nazi camps, particularly concentration camps and death camps, and, though less often, to Soviet camps, particularly forced labour camps. Yet the definition has proved to be excessively narrow. It should also cover, previously less studied, works of Polish literature regarding, i.a. the Polish concentration camp in Bereza Kartuska, the communist labour camps established in post-WWII Poland, and the Spanish concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro. The notion camp literature could also be applied to works devoted to internment camps, POW camps, or even ghettoes.
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This article focuses on the writing process of Juliusz Krzyżewski’s “Idée fixe” and the Shoah connotations of this poem. As it is shown in the text, the Winogórowie – a Jewish family – and the Mrozińscy – a Polish family – had been friends whose contact and mutual help did not cease when the Winogórowie were ghettoised in Falenica. It is argued that this situation was made possible by the forest separating Międzylesie from Falenica. In this forest, the poet, who later inscribed himself as a witness in “Idée fixe,” met girls escaping from the ghetto. Not only does the author of this article ponder upon the question why Krzyżewski has left these events unmentioned for so many years, but also he attempts to present not just the poet, but the poetry as a witness.
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Autor szkicu rekonstruuje zawiłą historię powstania wiersza Juliusza Krzyżewskiego Idée fixe i wskazuje na jego związki z Zagładą. Przypomina wojenne losy żydowskiej rodziny Winogórów zaprzyjaźnionej z polską rodziną Mrozińskich. Rodziny te, mimo zamknięcia Winogórów w getcie w Falenicy, kontaktowały się i pomagały sobie. Z ustaleń autora wynika, że ważną rolę we wzajemnych kontaktach odegrał las dzielący Międzylesie od Falenicy. To tam wymykające się z getta dziewczęta spotkał poeta, który później przedstawił siebie w Idée fixe jako świadka. Badacz stara się zrozumieć także, dlaczego Krzyżewski tak długo ukrywał zdarzenia, które zobaczył, i pokazać nie tylko poetę, ale przede wszystkim poezję w roli świadka.
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Class, ethnicity, and state in the making of marginality: Revisiting territories of urban relegationIn the postindustrial city, relegation takes the form of real or imaginary consignment to distinctive sociospatial formations variously and vaguely referred to as “inner cities,” “ghettos,” “enclaves,” “no-go areas,” “problem districts,” or simply “rough neighborhoods.” How are we characterize and differentiate these spaces, what determines their trajectory (birth, growth, decay and death), whence comes the intense stigma attached to them, and what constellations of class, ethnicity and state do they both materialize and signify? These are the questions I pursued in my book “Urban outcasts” (2008) through a methodical comparison of the trajectories of the black American ghetto and the European working-class peripheries in the era of neoliberal ascendancy. In this article, I revisit this cross-continental sociology of “advanced marginality” to tease out its broader lessons for our understanding of the tangled nexus of symbolic, social and physical space in the polarizing metropolis at century’s threshold in particular, and for bringing the core principles of Bourdieu’s sociology to bear on comparative urban studies in general. Klasa, etniczność i państwo w procesie tworzenia marginalności: Ponowne spojrzenie na obszary miejskiej relegacjiW mieście epoki postprzemysłowej relegacja przybiera formę realnego lub wyobrażonego przypisania do odrębnych formacji społeczno-przestrzennych, na różne sposoby i niezbyt precyzyjnie określanych jako „śródmieścia” (inner cities), „getta”, „enklawy”, „rejony niebezpieczne” (no-go areas), „dzielnice stwarzające problemy” (problem districts) czy po prostu „nieprzyjemne dzielnice” (rough neighborhoods). W jaki sposób opisujemy i odróżniamy owe przestrzenie, co określa ich trajektorię (powstanie, rozwój, upadek i zanik), skąd wzięło się silne symboliczne piętno nadane im na przełomie stuleci, a także jakiego rodzaju powiązania między klasowością, etnicznością i państwem znajdują w nich materialny oraz znaczeniowy wyraz? Kwestie te podejmuję w książce "Urban outcasts" [Miejscy wyrzutkowie] (2008), w której metodycznie porównuję trajektorie amerykańskiego czarnego getta i europejskich peryferii robotniczych w czasach panowania neoliberalizmu. W niniejszym artykule powracam do tej międzykontynentalnej socjologii „zaawansowanej marginalności”, mając na celu odsłonięcie płynących z niej wniosków dla lepszego zrozumienia skomplikowanych powiązań przestrzeni symbolicznej, społecznej i fizycznej w obrębie polaryzującej metropolii na przełomie stuleci oraz, ogólniej, zastosowanie podstawowych zasad socjologii Pierre’a Bourdieu do badań porównawczych nad obszarami miejskimi.
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This article is an analysis of Roman Polanski’ The Pianist, focused on presenting how the city space in this film, both its exteriors and interiors, makes it a story of Warsaw during the Second World War. The gradual destruction of the city is presented in two supplementary fashions. On the one hand, there is as a quasi-documentary reconstruction of the past based on literary (Władysław Szpilman’s diary) and visual (archive photographs and films) material, while on the other, there is a symbolic narration, where particular places and events bear hidden meanings. Next to Chopin and his music, the piano, interiors and city walls, the most meaningful symbol in the film is a monument of Jesus Christ carrying the cross, a statue standing in front of The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, a motif that appears in the second shot of the Pianist and returns three more times during the film.
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The Annihilation of a City. Warsaw in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist This article is an analysis of Roman Polanski’ The Pianist, focused on presenting how the city space in this film, both its exteriors and interiors, makes it a story of Warsaw during the Second World War. The gradual destruction of the city is presented in two supplementary fashions. On the one hand, there is as a quasi-documentary reconstruction of the past based on literary (Władysław Szpilman’s diary) and visual (archive photographs and films) material, while on the other, there is a symbolic narration, where particular places and events bear hidden meanings. Next to Chopin and his music, the piano, interiors and city walls, the most meaningful symbol in the film is a monument of Jesus Christ carrying the cross, a statue standing in front of The Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, a motif that appears in the second shot of the Pianist and returns three more times during the film.
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The aim of an article „Slovak Jews in Majdanek camp” is to present the facts about transports and characteristics of those prisoners. Transports of Jews from Slovakia were headed to Majdanek from the end of May till the middle of June 1942. In this period, only men were sent to the camp. Women, children and people who were unable to work were placed in ghettos in the area of Lublin district. They were brought to KL Lublin in the summer and autumn 1943 after liquidation of the ghettos. Slovak Jews did not present a socially homogeneous group in the camp. Those who were educated and knew German took various functions. Their privileged position in the camp and the fact that they did not allow anyone else to enter their group made other prisoners jealous and was a reason of conflicts with other groups. Pentalties, chicanes, killing in gas chamber and above all primitive living conditions were a reason of high mortality in the camp. Those who stayed alive were murdered on the 3th of November 1943 during the “Erntefest” action. This day about 18 000 Jews from many countries were shot. Only those who were deported to KL Auschwitz in May and June 1942 and those who ran away survived.
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Celem artykułu „Żydzi słowaccy w obozie na Majdanku” jest przedstawienie faktów dotyczących transportów i charakterystyki tych więźniów. Transporty Żydów ze Słowacji były kierowane na Majdanek od końca maja do połowy czerwca 1942 roku. W tym okresie do obozu trafiali wyłącznie mężczyźni. Kobiety, dzieci i osoby niezdolne do pracy umieszczano w gettach na terenie dystryktu lubelskiego. Do KL Lublin przywieziono ich latem i jesienią 1943 r. po likwidacji gett. Żydzi słowaccy nie stanowili w obozie grupy jednorodnej społecznie. Ci, którzy byli wykształceni i znali język niemiecki, pełnili różne funkcje. Ich uprzywilejowana pozycja w obozie oraz fakt, że nie dopuszczali do swojej grupy nikogo innego, wzbudzały zazdrość innych więźniów i były powodem konfliktów z innymi grupami. Kary, szykany, zabijanie w komorze gazowej, a przede wszystkim prymitywne warunki bytowe były przyczyną wysokiej śmiertelności w obozie. Ci, którzy pozostali przy życiu, zostali zamordowani 3 listopada 1943 r. podczas akcji „Erntefest”. Tego dnia rozstrzelano około 18 000 Żydów z wielu krajów. Przeżyli tylko ci, którzy zostali deportowani do KL Auschwitz w maju i czerwcu 1942 r. oraz ci, którzy uciekli.
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