The excluded help, or about futility – the Holocaust in Ludwik Hering’s Traces Cover Image

Pomoc wykluczonych, czyli o daremności – Zagłada w Śladach Ludwika Heringa
The excluded help, or about futility – the Holocaust in Ludwik Hering’s Traces

Author(s): Beata Przymuszała
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Holocaust; the ghetto; helping Jews; empathy

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the manner of presenting the Holocaust in Ludwik Hering’s stories. It focuses on the construction of the narrator and the protagonist, analyzing their attitude to the situation of Jews. In the context of the anti-Semitism mentioned in the texts, the protagonists not only distance themselves from it, but they try to help the Jews. However, they are also aware of the limited nature of this help for Jews and reveal its realities. A helping Pole, who is socially excluded , is aware of the power of social rules which destroy the help itself.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 43-54
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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