Co widać zaraz po wojnie? Zapomniane obrazy Zagłady z lat czterdziestych
What can you see right after the war? Forgotten images of the Holocaust from the 1940s

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns forgotten short stories, films, and plays written during the first years after the war (1945‒1949) which evoked the chronologically close Holocaust experience. The author ventures a thesis that during that short period emerged representations that touched upon the most difficult aspects of the Holocaust and the relations between the Jewish victims and the ethnically Polish witnesses. The re-articulation of those issues was possible only nowadays. The works which took up the topic of the Polish surroundings’ hostility to the Jews, the appropriation of Jewish property by the Poles and the their compliance in the Holocaust have either been forgotten or – as in the case of movies – their distribution was discontinued. The period immediately after the war facilitates a closer look on the Polish awareness of the wartime and occupation-period events and also shows how the dominant Holocaust narration which was being born at that time obscures those diagnoses.

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