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The Story of a Certain Smile

On Jan Borowicz’s Pamięć perwersyjna. Pozycje polskiego świadka Zagłady [Perverse Memory. Attitudes of a Polish Shoah Witness]

Author(s): Aleksandra Szczepan
Subject(s): Cultural history, Recent History (1900 till today), History of the Holocaust, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: witness; Holocaust; positionality; Polish culture; memory;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the book Pamięć perwersyjna. Pozycje polskiego świadka Zagłady (2020) by Jan Borowicz. The author summarizes its main concepts and analyzes them in the context of recent discussions and publications on Polish collective memory, the category of the witness, and the Holocaust by bullets.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 139-154
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish