Pomiędzy niepamięcią a pamięcią ekskluzywną. Współczesny Rzeszów wobec swojej żydowskiej przeszłości
Between oblivion and exclusive memory. Contemporary Rzeszów in the face of its Jewish past

Summary/Abstract: Rzeszów belongs to this specific group of Polish cities which before the war were characterised by a large and dynamically developing Jewish community, which was then almost completely annihilated in the Holocaust. After World War II, no other city in Poland experienced a similar scale of socio-spatial changes and dynamic development. Jewish life, which until 1939 was a very visible element of urban space, does not exist today, and its remaining material traces are poorly identified by modern residents and are located on the absolute margins of their collective memory. This article deals with the problem of the disproportion between the rich history of Rzeszów Jews and their annihilation during the war, and the contemporary memory of them of today’s residents. The text analyzes the history of the processes of symbolic commemoration of Jewish inhabitants and various forms of commemorating the Holocaust in the post-war period. This data is simultaneously confronted with regularly carried out research on historical awareness and collective memory on representative survey samples of the inhabitants of Rzeszów.

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