Przecież ich nie zostawię. Dyskurs o niepamięci o polsko-żydowskich opiekunkach dzieci w czasie Zagłady
After all, I will not abandon them: discourse on non-memory of Polish-Jewish caretakers of children during the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses a collections of essays edited by Magdalena Kicińska and Monika Sznajderman published in 2018. The essays were devoted to now forgotten house-mothers in Jewish institutions taking care of children during World War II, as well as other women involved in aiding orphaned Jewish children. The article attempts to place this collection in the context of feminist and gender perspectives in the 21st c. Holocaust studies. The conclusion of this paper is that genological issues are more central in this research than attempts to situate these texts in the context of current cultural studies. In consequence, it may be claimed that the essays, well documented and furnished with state-of-the-art critical apparatus appropriate for historical publications, are at the same time examples of modern Holocaust prose of an anthropological bent and as such they make a seminal contribution to Polish discourse on memory and non-memory of the Holocaust.

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