Arrested mourning : memory of the Nazi camps in Poland, 1944-1950

Arrested mourning memory of the Nazi camps in Poland, 1944-1950

Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the relevant phenomena in Western and Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as the Poles and Polish Jews...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wóycicka, Zofia (-)
Otros Autores: Tilbury, Jasper, Taylor-Kucia, Jessica
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2014
Frankfurt am Main, Germany : 2013.
Colección:Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History, Volume 2
Materias:
Collective memory > Poland.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Poland.
1944–1950
Arrested
Auschwitz
Birkenau
Camps
Denkmal
Disputes
Gedenkveranstaltungen
Gross-Rosen,
Holocaust
Konzentrationslager
Majdanek
Memory
Mourning
Nazi
Poland
Polish
Stalinismus
Stutthof
Treblinka
Vernichtungslager
Woycicka
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654125906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. PEOPLE; Chapter 1. Former Prisoners: "Finest Sons of the Fatherland" or "Hapless Victims of the Camps"?; Repatriation and Assistance; Former Prisoners Organize Themselves; Politicisation of the PZbWP; The Struggle against "Victimhood"; Chapter 2. Our "Jewish Comrades"? Who Belongs to the Community of Victims?; Anti-Semitism; Isolation; Jews in the PZbWP; "A Separate Death"?; "Heroes of the Ghetto" or Passive Victims?; Other Groups of Victims
  • Chapter 3. At the "Limit of a Certain Morality":Polish Debates on the Conduct of Concentration Camp PrisonersWar Crimes Trials in Poland, 1944-1950; Controversies Surrounding the Trials of Prisoner Functionaries; Beyond the Courtroom; Defending the Image of the Political Prisoner; PART II. PLACES; Chapter 4. Sites of Memory, Sites of Forgetting; Majdanek and Auschwitz: Vying for "Pre-eminence"; "The Death of Birkenau"; In the Background: Stutthof and Gross-Rosen; Forgotten Places: Chełmno, Bełżec, Treblinka, Sobibór
  • Chapter 5. Disputes over the Method of Commemorating the Sites of Former Concentration Camps"Evidence of Crimes" or "A Collection of Curiosities"?; Cemeteries or "Battlefields"?; "Jewish Cemeteries" or "Places of Martyrdom of the Polish Nation and of Other Nations"?; Chapter 6. A Christian Monument to Jewish Martyrdom?An Unrealised Project from 1947 to Commemorate the Site of the Former Death Camp at Treblinka; The "Polish Klondike": Genesis of the Project; Iconography of the Memorial; Epilogue: Auschwitz-"A Tacky Stall of CheapAnti-imperialist Propaganda"; Conclusion; Bibliography
  • A. SourcesB. Studies; Index

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