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Polish literature and the Konzentrationslager. The beginning

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Morawiec A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2017

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vol. 44

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issue 6

23-48

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In the article the author discusses the beginnings of Polish camp literature, more precisely: literature referring to the Nazi German concentration camps. For decades it was assumed that the earliest Polish texts of that type were published in 1945. It appears that the first works – reports and memoirs – were published before the outbreak of WWII. In this article, the author discusses them in the historical and historical-literary contexts (mainly in the context of German writings).

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Homoseksualna katastrofa wsteczna: Mężczyźni z różowym trójkątem i Cholernie mocna miłość

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Kumala A.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2022

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vol. 51

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issue 1

20-38

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The article offers in-depth, critical analysis of the books The Men With The Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger and Damned Strong Love: The True Story of Willi G. and Stefan K. by Lutz van Dijk, touching upon the topic of Nazi persecutions of homosexuals. Both texts are being presented as matrix testimonies, which not only widened the Second World War discourse by introducing the homosexual victim, but also initiated homosexual variant of what Przemysław Czapliński’s called the “reverse catastrophe”. Although concentrating precisely on male war-time experience, the texts significantly exceed the dominant, male-centered narrative pattern. By discussing the issues such as ambiguous authorship, differences between narrative strategies, brutalization of the language and the authors’ attitudes towards body, sexuality or violence, the article demonstrates-thus far seldomly considered-“catastrophic potential” of the publications. Attention is also being drawn to the fact that by virtue of their existence, homosexual war-time experience no longer has to be considered-to use Sławomir Buryła’s term-“non-verbalizable”

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Traduire l’histoire : entre paroles et images

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Castro-Ramirez N., Wiater A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2021

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vol. 48

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issue 4

7-20

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In an age when the global dissemination of digital information is transforming the way we read and write by foregrounding the interdependence of visual/verbal elements and languages, the reconstruction of identity and history in digital environments challenges binary translation processes. From this perspective, we interrogate the integration of visual and verbal elements in three Wikipedia articles, written in Polish, English, and Portuguese, about the topic “Polish death camp”. What is the role of translation in the semiotic construction of historical discourses in these articles? What are the conflicts generated by translated denominations? How do Wikipedia communities engage with the production of these cognitiverepresentations? This paper attempts to answer these questions.

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Oficerowie Wojska Polskiego, związani z Wadowicami, rozstrzelani w KL Auschwitz 27 maja 1942 r.

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Dębski J.

Wadoviana. Przegląd historyczno-kulturalny

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2014

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issue 17

40-51

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The author presents biographies of nine officers of the Polish Army. All of them, though differently, were connected with the town of Wadowice: some of them were born there, some in the 12th Infantry Regiment that stationed in the town, whereas others attended the local school. Besides their bonds with the town of Wadowice, they also shared the expieience of the second world war and of the fight with the German invader. Although, as officers, they seemed to be obliged to combat with the enemy, the decision to put up resistance was never easy. Their fates were once again linked in Auschwitz, where they were sent as a result repressive organized by the Nazis.

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Balansując na krawędzi słowa: specyfika kobiecych świadectw obozowych (Delbo, Millu, Szmaglewska, Żywulska)

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Teklik J.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2010

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issue 17

249-262

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The problem of presenting the traumatic experience of deportation and detention in a concentration camp is still painfully topical, the more so that hitherto existing methods and linguistic strategies provide no useful tools for its investigation, being either frustratingly ineffective, or altogether useless. Over time, a certain regularity in handling the problem has become noticeable, i.e. a distinctive separation of the available accounts of the experience into those provided by women and those evidenced by men. The answer to the question of how to narrate has to be then preceded by an appropriate question on social, cultural and gender identity of the narrator. On the basis of the exemplary accounts by four former inmates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau it is possible to understand the specificity and uniqueness of feminine perception of the camp’s reality. The accounts provided by Charlotte Delbo, Liana Millu, Seweryna Szmaglewska and Krystyna Żywulska - all easily identifiable by the different adopted form of message conveyance - share the specificity of women’s subjects raised, aspects closely related to the structure of a woman and her existence in responding to extreme conditions, often omitted in accounts provided by male witnesses. Camp pregnancies, dramatic deliveries, pseudo-scientific experiments, rapes and prostitution - all these constitute additional themes related to by women, victims to the above.

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Celestyna Orlikowska (1892–1976) – pedagog, przyrodnik i harcerka

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Chmielewski W.

Przegląd Historyczno-Oświatowy

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2023

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vol. LXVI

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issue 1-2

168-184

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Aim: Presenting the pedagogic, academic, and scouting activity of Celestyna Orlikowska in different periods of time and various conditions taking mainly account of the period in Piotrków and her patriotic attitude during the Second World War. Methods: An analysis of archival documents and source literature in the context of social, political, and territorial changes taking place and the ongoing war. Results: Presenting an educationist who cared with great devotion about her mentees’ education. Presenting her great involvement in scouting, and her commendable attitude in the period of conspiracy during the German occupation and during her stay in a concentration camp. Presenting her considerable output in the scope of history of natural sciences. Showing the coercive attitude of the communist authorities towards the highly qualified teacher who wished to educate the youth in the spirit of universal, human values. Conclusions: Showing that the teacher’s worthy attitude, diligence, reliability regardless of the situation she was in, produces positive educational results and earns recognition among her students and the environment she was in.

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Past and Present in Jorge Semprun’s "L’écriture ou la vie"

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Ferri G.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2016

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vol. 40

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issue 2

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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Being a survivor to the Buchenwald concentration camp may implythe inability to tell this tragic experience. Semprun tries to go beyond this difficulty by writing L'écriture ou la vie. His trauma and the camp’s omnipresence determine a noncoincidence between interior and exterior time and the fragmentation of the text. Chronological linearity makes way for a labyrinthic time caractherized by a continuous change of present into past tense and by several flashbacks and metatextual digressions. The latter are also the indication that the elaboration process is underway and this suggests that art in itself makes the evolution possible.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

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Propaganda i rzeczywistość nazistowska widziana oczami dziecka w powieści Johna Boyne’a Chłopiec w pasiastej piżamie

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Moskała P.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2017

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vol. 41

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issue 3

107-114

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The aim of the article is to present the Nazi reality and its propaganda as seen through the eyes of Bruno – the hero of the novel John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The narrative shown from the perspective of a child reveals, in a unique way, the mechanics of demagogy and manipulation used by the Nazi propaganda. The symbolic fence between Bruno, the son of the concentration camp commandant, and a Jewish boy of the same age named Schmul, becomes the main theme of the novel. The story of the novel reveals the entanglement of the children in the workings of the history. Such a story construction is a starting point for the author of the article for the analysis of the complexity of propaganda measures and their influence on a young person, mainly in the affective, intellectual and social dimensions. The analysis involves not only the linguistic layer of the novel, but also the topography of the place and the characteristic use of Nazi symbols.

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Wokół sporu o status i charakter obozu w okupowanym Konstantynowie koło Łodzi w latach 1940-1943

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Jania-Szczechowiak M.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2018

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issue 2(367)

225-244

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The object of the article is the presentation and analysis of endeavors undertaken by the former prisoners of the German camp in the occupied Konstantynów by Łódź to requalify the name of the camp from a displaced persons camp to a concentration camp. The article briefly outlines the history of the camp, its place in the Nazi camp system and the conditions that pervaded the camp. This is followed by a presentation of the arguments and counterarguments used in the polemics of the former prisoners with public institutions. The status of the former prisoners of the Konstantinow camp is examined in the context of the Veteran Act and the accompanying regulation. The issue of financial compensation paid out to the victims of Nazi Germany by the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation is also discussed. The article provides an impulse for reflection on the topic of the treatment of transition camps in two categories: de iure and de facto.

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“Mr Hitler,” Greta Garbo and the Jew Hidden in the Grass. The Literary Representation of the Holocaust in Ruth Tannenbaum by Miljenko Jergović

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Szperlik E.

Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne

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2023

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issue 24

209-231

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This article is an attempt to provide an insight into the fate of the Jewish diaspora in Zagreb, a city marked by the spectre of the Second World War. The events in the diegetic world are based on the fictionalised, tragic life of a young Jewish actress Lea Deutsch (1927-1943), who was acclaimed a prodigy of the Zagreb theatre scene and was killed in Auschwitz. Miljenko Jergović undertook the difficult task of addressing Croatian antisemitism, the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), of which the darkest outcome was the Jasenovac concentration camp. The analysis of the work is part of a wide-ranging discussion on the acceptable ways to depict the Holocaust (language and form). The Croatian writer's novel highlights the topos of the eternally wandering Jew; he also dispels the myth about small promised lands in the history of Jews, who were scattered across Europe and had to face local exclusion, antisemitism and ghettoisation.

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L’espace concentrationnaire et la figure du « musulman » dans Les Boucs de Driss Chraïbi

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Pawlicki J.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2023

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vol. 50

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issue 1

97-106

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The article examines the question of the concentration camp space and the figure of the “Muslim” in the novel Les Boucs (1955) by the Moroccan writer Driss Chraïbi. Published ten years after the war, the novel nevertheless uses certain motifs from the literature of the camps. Even if the geography of “Arab Paris” in North African literature has been well described and analyzed, the kinship of the Goats with concentration camp literature has not received sufficient attention. Therefore, in my study I will first recall the circumstances of publication of the novel and the main lines of its reception by critics to then move on to the analysis of the concentrationary space in the novel. The link with the space of the camps will finally be reinforced by the evocation of the figure of the “Muslim”, well known from the testimonies and expressly exploited by Driss Chraïbi.

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Dziennik Helgi, czyli o dorastaniu w czasie Zagłady

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Stępnik A.

Zeszyty Pracy Socjalnej

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2020

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vol. 25

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issue 1

47-53

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Childhood is an extremely important stage in everyone’s life. However, it does not always run smoothly and in a gentle way. The text presents the problems of growing up and socializing in the extremely unfavorable conditions of concentration camps on the example of Helga Weissova’s book The Daily Helga. A girl’s testimony about life in concentration camps. This reading is not only a description of living conditions in Nazi camps, but above all, it is a record of growing up in a reality not adapted for this purpose. It shows the girl’s private perspective on the rapidly changing world that surrounds her. For this reason, the reading arouses a lot of extreme emotions and therefore provides very interesting analytical material on the subjects of childhood, adolescence and primary socialization.

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Obóz koncentracyjny Flossenbürg we wspomnieniach Bronisława Muzyki – szadkowianina z wyboru i kapelmistrza Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej w Szadku

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Marszał T.

Biuletyn Szadkowski

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2023

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issue 23

91-101

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Bronisław Muzyka, born in the region of Lwów, settled down in Szadek after the Second World War. He lived more than fourty years as a citizen of this town, where he was active, among other things, as the bandmaster of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. His life had a tragic episode – it was his stay in Flossenburg concentration camp and its subcamp in Legenfeld. Fragments of written down by Bronisław Muzyka memories of this time describe the situation of the Nazi forced labour camps prisoners, among whom were the inhabitants of Szadek region.

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Urodzony na ziemi lwowskiej Bronisław Muzyka po II wojnie światowej osiadł w Szadku. Przez ponad czterdzieści lat związany z tym miastem pełnił m.in. funkcję kapelmistrza szadkowskiej orkiestry Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej. Tragicznym epizodem w jego życiu był pobyt w obozie koncentracyjnym Flossenbürg i jego ﬁlii w Legenfeld. Fragmenty spisanych przez B. Muzykę wspomnień z tego okresu pozwalają przybliżyć los więźniów hitlerowskich obozów pracy, wśród których byli także mieszkańcy regionu szadkowskiego.

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Ksiądz Józef Piekieliński (Piekielny) (1897–1942), ofiara obozu koncentracyjnego w Dachau

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Szkutnik P.

Biuletyn Szadkowski

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2012

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issue 12

41-59

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Father Józef Piekieliński was born in 1897 in Szadek, where his family lived. After finishing the Theological Seminary in Włocławek he worked as catechist and curate in a number of parishes in Kujawsko-Kaliska diocese, and then in Częstochowa diocese. In the period 1932–1941 he was the parish priest in Jaworzno near Wieluń. During massive arrests of Polish clergy by Germans in 1941he was imprisoned in the concentration camp in Dachau, where he died in 1942.

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Sposoby ukazywania obozów nazistowskich w sztuce zwanej naiwną

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Grzybowska K.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2015

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issue 23

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The paper presents the realizations of the theme of concentration camps in folk art, i.e. the sculptures made by Władysław Chajec, Zygmunt Skrętowicz, Franciszek Skocz, and Jan Staszak. Chajec and Staszak tried to present the most drastic moments in the history of the Nazi death factories. These sculptors drew inspiration from the popular iconography of the Holocaust, i.e. pictures showing the liberation of the camps. Skocz carved a cycle of figures that represent members of the SS and prisoners who are doing labor and who are being subjected to punishment, whereas Staszak decided to create his works by using wood from the trees growing on the borders of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, thus treating these plants as witnesses of suffering. This article presents the aforementioned works against the background of the crisis of representation, which permeates culture after the Holocaust.

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Trudna definicja obozu koncentracyjnego

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Nijakowski L. M.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2023

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vol. 67

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issue 1

3-18

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This paper discusses only the systems of concentration camps, omitting how individual camps functioned. The analysis starts with late 19th-century Spanish camps in Cuba and ends with late 20th-century camps for Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first part of the paper discusses the problems of defining a concentration camp and proposes an original definition. The second part focuses on the victims, including their position within the camp hierarchy. The third part shows the practice of history politics based on the system of camps to which Silesians and other groups were sent after the war. Consequently, the paper offers an original definition of a concentration camp that is missing from many scholarly papers, and discusses Polish complications in history politics related to avoiding the term “Polish concentration camps”. The interpretation was based on the hermeneutics of academic literature and multimodal discourse analysis, especially as it pertains to post-war camps.

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Camp literature. Introduction

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Morawiec A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2017

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vol. 46

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issue 8

5-21

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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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Edukacyjny wymiar wizyt w miejscu pamięci. Z wizyty w Państwowym Muzeum na Majdanku: studium przypadku

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Kawa M.

Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal

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2018

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vol. 1/2018

173-185

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Przedmiotem artykułu jest analiza ankiet przeprowadzonych wśród studentów i studentek kierunku stosunki międzynarodowe Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej w Chełmie, odwiedzających Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. Zwracam uwagę na rolę, jaką odgrywa miejsce pamięci ulokowane na terenie byłego nazistowskiego obozu koncentracyjnego i obozu zagłady, a także sprawdzam, na ile wizyta w miejscu pamięci jest dla młodych ludzi ważnym przeżyciem i co w ich opinii jest najbardziej poruszającym momentem obecności w takim miejscu. Artykuł podzielony został na trzy części. W pierwszej, wprowadzającej, omawiam krótko historię powstania Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku oraz to, w jaki sposób zmieniała się narracja o byłym obozie przekazywana przez Muzeum. W drugiej części sygnalizuję edukacyjną rolę miejscea pamięci. Pomijam tutaj toczącą się dyskusję o wszelkich strategiach edukacyjnych i praktykach pedagogicznych. Zdaję sobie sprawę, że tematyka ta jest opracowana i dostępna w literaturze przedmiotu, jej przywołanie i analiza nie jest jednak celem niniejszej pracy. W części trzeciej, najobszerniejszej, omawiam wyniki ankiet przeprowadzonych wśród osób odwiedzających Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku.

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The subject of this article is the analysis of surveys conducted among International Relations students of the State School of Higher Education in Chełm visiting the State Museum at Majdanek. In my article I ask the question about the role of place of memory located on the premises of a former Nazi concentration and death camp. The article also attempts to determine whether and to what extent a visit to a place of memory is an important experience in the lives of young people, and what makes the biggest impression on the visitor. This article is divided into three parts. In the first one I shortly present the beginnings of the State Museum at Majdanek and in what way the narration about the former camp at Museum has been changing. In the second part I mention the educational role which the place of memory may play. The article does not engage in the debate about the educational strategies and pedagogical practices. Although the subject is described and available in the literature in the field, but this issue is beyond the scope of my article. The last part of this paper presents the results of surveys conducted among students visiting the State Museum at Majdanek.

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«Выразить невыразимое» — стремление описать впечатления от концентрационного лагеря Аушвиц (на основании избранных произведений, написанных на польском языке)

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Páralová Tardy M.

Slavica Wratislaviensia

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2015

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vol. 161

285 - 292

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Concentration camp literature has had its unique position within the 20th century literature. After 1945, first works by surviving prisoners or eye-witnesses of the Nazi crimes are being published. The term “eye-witness,” however, is considered by some of the former prisoners to be misleading and inappropriate. When describing their memories they had to deal with many obstacles to be able to pass on comprehensible information about their stay to the readers. The comprehensibility of their message was hindered above all by the powerful and painful character of their experience and by limits of the common language expressive means. In concentration camps a specific language was formed, the lagersprache, which penetrates into these works also. In their descriptions the writers were often limited by social and personal conventions as well. The efforts to “express the inexpressible” impinged on disbelief and misunderstanding of both publishers and readers. Despite that, today’s reception of these works bears evidence to the contrary, and it can be stated that the former prisoners managed to pass on to the readers at least “part” of their experience.

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Jedenaście z dwudziestu czterech. O zapomnianych Opowiadaniach oświęcimskich Marii Zarębińskiej-Broniewskiej

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Tramer M.

Narracje o Zagładzie

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2020

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issue 6

332-340

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Opowiadania oświęcimskie (Auschwitz stories) by Maria Zarębińska-Broniewska was first published in a book version in 1948. All the texts included in the book, however, had beenwritten earlier. First of them were initially released in a daily Polska Zbrojna (Armed Poland) in early June 1945, just a few days after the author’s return from a concentration camp. They were one of the first accounts which concerned women’s concentration camps. The book which was published later included nine out of eleven short stories written by Zarębińska. There is also an extant manuscript a novel’s synopsis. However, a very ambitious project of creating tens of short stories was not completed due to the author’s death. This article is a description of the history of Auschwitz stories and their particular editions; it also includes two forgotten stories which were not included in published collections.

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Polish literature and the Konzentrationslager. The beginning

Homoseksualna katastrofa wsteczna: Mężczyźni z różowym trójkątem i Cholernie mocna miłość

Traduire l’histoire : entre paroles et images

Oficerowie Wojska Polskiego, związani z Wadowicami, rozstrzelani w KL Auschwitz 27 maja 1942 r.

Balansując na krawędzi słowa: specyfika kobiecych świadectw obozowych (Delbo, Millu, Szmaglewska, Żywulska)

Celestyna Orlikowska (1892–1976) – pedagog, przyrodnik i harcerka

Past and Present in Jorge Semprun’s "L’écriture ou la vie"

Propaganda i rzeczywistość nazistowska widziana oczami dziecka w powieści Johna Boyne’a Chłopiec w pasiastej piżamie

Wokół sporu o status i charakter obozu w okupowanym Konstantynowie koło Łodzi w latach 1940-1943

“Mr Hitler,” Greta Garbo and the Jew Hidden in the Grass. The Literary Representation of the Holocaust in Ruth Tannenbaum by Miljenko Jergović

L’espace concentrationnaire et la figure du « musulman » dans Les Boucs de Driss Chraïbi

Dziennik Helgi, czyli o dorastaniu w czasie Zagłady

Obóz koncentracyjny Flossenbürg we wspomnieniach Bronisława Muzyki – szadkowianina z wyboru i kapelmistrza Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej w Szadku

Ksiądz Józef Piekieliński (Piekielny) (1897–1942), ofiara obozu koncentracyjnego w Dachau

Sposoby ukazywania obozów nazistowskich w sztuce zwanej naiwną

Trudna definicja obozu koncentracyjnego

Camp literature. Introduction

Edukacyjny wymiar wizyt w miejscu pamięci. Z wizyty w Państwowym Muzeum na Majdanku: studium przypadku

«Выразить невыразимое» — стремление описать впечатления от концентрационного лагеря Аушвиц (на основании избранных произведений, написанных на польском языке)

Jedenaście z dwudziestu czterech. O zapomnianych Opowiadaniach oświęcimskich Marii Zarębińskiej-Broniewskiej